The Ipswich Railway Workshops are now the oldest operating rail yards in Australia. The workshops were needed to assemble the locomotives and rolling stock and to do the repairs railways which expanded very quickly making demands on the workshop.
The first railway workshops were established at the North Ipswich rail yards in 1865, the workshops were established in Queensland when skilled workers were needed to service the railway, running from Ipswich to Toowoomba. Ipswich became the centre for the railway workshops as well as being the base for rail construction and maintenance for Queensland.
Workers Needed
The workshops were established in Queensland when skilled workers were needed to service the railway, running from Ipswich to Toowoomba. The Ipswich Railway Workshops are the only 19th century railway workshops still working in Australia.
Today the Ipswich Railway workshops are also the Rail Museum and it still has areas where they are making items needed by the railway, for instance the hammers to drive the spikes the folks to take the old spikes out, when repairs are needed, as well as the couplings for the coal trains.
The Whole Family
This is a great place for the whole family, we spent the afternoon at the museum and still didn’t see everything.
We had no children with us but we saw plenty of children and they all were enjoying the day.
Go And See Thomas The Tank Engine
Over the school holidays Thomas The Tank Engine will at The Workshop Museum from 26th December till the end of January.
Open 9:30AM – 5.00PM Daily
Closed Good Friday, Anzac Days and Christmas Day
Contact TheWorkshops Website or phone (07) 34325100
