Serendipity is the art of stumbling across beauty or pleasure when you least expect it, and the Ida Bay Railway was, for us, pure serendipity. We had driven as far south from Hobart as we could in our hire car - dirt roads were forbidden to us - and we spotted the train in its station and on a whim decided to take the ride.
The pace was slow, the scenery inspiring, the driver made a most informative guide. I can thoroughly recommend the Ida Bay narrow guage railway.