North Ipswich Railway Workshops | |
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Location | North Street, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
Coordinates | 27°36′08″S 152°45′26″E / 27.6023°S 152.7572°E |
Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
Built | 1878 - 1980s |
Official name | North Ipswich Railway Workshops Complex |
Type | state heritage (built) |
Designated | 21 April 1997 |
Reference no. | 601526 |
Significant period | 1878- 1980s (fabric) 1864- Present Day (Operation of workshops at site) |
Significant components | furnace, forge/blacksmithy, garden - bed/s, office/administration building, office/s, toilet block/earth closet/water closet, workshop, crane / gantry, tramway, turntable, tank stand, maintenance facility, railway siding, tower, trees/plantings, tower - water, engine/generator shed/room / power supply, traverser, warehouse, railway, pump house, boiler room/boiler house, machinery/plant/equipment - engineering and construction, machinery/plant/equipment - utilities - gas/electricity supply, mill - timber / sawmill, store/s / storeroom / storehouse |
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 location by 1885 with continued expansion until the 1980s. The front third of the current site is run by Queensland Museums. Behind this Queensland Rail still operate and have continuously operated this site since 1864/1865. It is the oldest continuously operating railway workshop in Australia. ( Any information found saying it has closed at any stage is incorrect). As well as Steam Locomotives and heritage coaches, other works are still completed here by various tradespersons for Queensland Rail from across the business as a whole.