However, before operations could begin, a faction within the museum's membership commenced legal action over the ownership of the collection and the line fell back into a state of disrepair.Dorrigo court case dismissed Railway Digest July 1991 page 229 The dispute was finally resolved in February 1999 with the Glenreagh to Ulong section of the line sold to the Glenreagh Mountain Railway and the Ulong to Dorrigo section sold to the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum.Dorrigo Line Breakthrough Railway Digest March 1999 page 15 By 2017, it had the largest collection in the world with 75 locomotives, 19 railmotors and 280 carriages and wagons.A day out at the Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum Railway Digest August 2017 pages 46-50
