The Workshops Rail Museum

"If it can be made, it can be made in the Workshops". A great motto and attitude. From what little I learned during our brief visit, that probably isn't much of an exaggeration.

The Workshops Rail Museum is located in Ipswitch, about an hour's drive from Brisbane, Australia. I was drawn there by the possibility of some of the original workshops being in place, and well, the desire to go to a place called Ipswitch. I ended up liking this museum a lot and could easily spend another day there learning more about the workshops.


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The Google map above shows a satelite view of The Workshops. It may not be easy to tell from this view, but the site is huge and sprawling. It is possible to see about one third of it from the public and tour areas of the museum. Actually, only part of the site is museum property, the rest being Queensland Rail properly actively used for maintaining their heritage fleet. The museum entrance fee gets you access to both.

I've only shown a bit of what the museum has to offer, broken into sections below.



Outside Areas
Old Photos
Interesting Objects
Machinery
Steam Shop
Blacksmith Shop
Locomotives
For the Kids

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