Bidders can pitch for the carriages for as little as $1 with bids closing through Lloyds Auctions from 7:00pm Tuesday.

Lloyds Auctions Chief Operations Officer, Lee Hames, said the monorail had been in storage since it closed in January 2017, after almost 30 years of silently snaking along and across the Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach.

Potential buyers had already identified the carriages’ potential holiday accommodation or suggested that they simply wanted a slice of Gold Coast history, Hames said.

The monorail’s leading carriage being unloaded before a planned auction.

“We’ve had interest from people wanting to revamp these carriages and turn them into other kinds of tourism opportunities for the Gold Coast,” Hames said.

“This is an opportunity to own a significant piece of local tourism history which many Australians know and love.”

Built in 1989, the Broadbeach monorail serviced thousands of passengers and quickly became an iconic tourist symbol for Gold Coast tourists travelling to and from the Oasis Shopping Centre and Jupiter’s casino.

After the monorail closed, trucking business owner Alberto Marques collected the carriages and transported them to his Arundel storage yard because an original buyer had intended to use the carriages in a new theme park. However, that theme park never got off the ground.

The auction comes as the Gold Coast is left without an operating monorail for the first time in more than 35 years after Sea World’s monorail was also shut down this month.

The two-kilometre theme park ride opened in 1986 and was the first monorail to be built in Australia.

Carriages were removed and the monorail was shut down because the system was too close to a new rollercoaster being built.

The Leviathan Wooden Coaster at Sea World is the first new wooden coaster built in Australia in 35 years and is expected to open in September.