A small highway settlement that was once a railhead.

Points of Interest: Larrimah Pub (originally a World War II Officers' Mess); monument to explorer Alexander Forrest who passed through in 1879; Birdum Hotel; Larrimah Museum; derelict remains of camps and air strips about in the surrounding area.

Brief history

The settlement came into being as the southern railhead of the line from Darwin. Up until 1976 when the line closed, containers were offloaded here from road trains for transfer by road to Darwin.

During World War II Larrimah was a staging camp for over 3,000 servicemen, and the town today filled with wartime memorabilla. Gorrie Airfield was a highly secretive RAAF Base built to provide maintenance and repair facilities to the allied air forces during World War II. During the war, over 6,000 soldiers and airmen were stationed in the vicinity.

Larrimah Museum, situated in the old railway yards behind the township of Larrimah, houses displays featuring the railway during World War II and its post-war operations in the transport industry.