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Queensland's first railway line, opened on 31 July 1865, ran between Ipswich and Grandchester, approximately 35 km (21.7 mi) [a] to the town's west. To support the new line, which became known as the South and West Railway, construction of two workshop buildings at Ipswich commenced in 1863, about a kilometre (0.62 miles) south of the present facility on the northern banks of the Bremer River.
North Ipswich Railway Workshops is a heritage-listed current Australian railway workshop at North Street, North Ipswich, Queensland. It was built from 1878 to 1980s. It is also known as the Workshops Rail Museum. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 April 1997. The original site was built in 1864, then expanding to its current ...
The Workshops Rail Museum opened in August 2002 and is housed in the North Ipswich Railway Workshops. The collection includes 15 items of rolling stock and thousands of smaller items. Some operational steam locomotives from the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet are often placed on display within the museum when not required for main line use.
Rosewood Railway Museum; W. Workshops Rail Museum This page was last edited on 25 September 2018, at 10:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In February 1970 the Redbank Locomotive Museum opened as an open air museum with 13 members of the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet (2, 6, 48, 106, 221A, 290, 444, 700, 771, 1000, 1009, 1051 and 1089) on display. [11] [12] [13] It closed in 1992 with the locomotives transferred to the North Ipswich Railway Workshops.
The Main Line railway from Ipswich to Brisbane was opened in 1876, [1] as part of an extension of the first railway line from Ipswich to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester) on 31 July 1865. [ 2 ] Originally built as single track, the section was duplicated from 1885 to 1887, indicating how quickly the traffic volume grew on the line.
The railway at Lanefield, 2015 QR heritage locos of the (left to right) PB15, BB18¼ and C17 classes at Grandchester for the 125th anniversary of QR, July 1990. The Main Line is a railway line in South East Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1865 and 1867.
This list of museums in Queensland, Australia contains museums that are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.