The Workshops Rail Museum - Locomotives

Other rail museums I have been to have been very focussed on the locomotives and other rolling stock. There is so much stuff and other areas of interest at this museum that you tend to forget it has quite a rolling stock collection. I don't cover half of it in my pictures but here are a few more of locomotives.








This is the engine used the Harry Potter movie. Not the best story - the engine was gutted and modified to look like an English train. When the move production was done with it, it was given to the museum who don't seem to quite know what to do with it.

Update: the above text I wrote didn't make sense to me since this loco doesn't look much like the Hogwart's Express from the movie. David Mews, curator of the museum provided this information in response to an enquiry to me:

"The locomotive is a Queensland Railways C17 Class 4-8-0 No.988. It was built by Walkers Ltd, Maryborough, Qld B/No. 525 of 1952. No.988 entered service in June 1952 and was withdrawn in November 1969. It was “preserved” in a park near Cairns railway station but subsequently removed to storage due to severe deterioration and the redevelopment of the site. Queensland Railways leased it to Warner Bros, Movieworld on the Gold Coast in 2001. They rebuilt it to look like a Hogwart’s loco for use as a backdrop for a Harry Potter ride at the Movieworld Theme Park. The locomotive was transferred to the workshops in 2008 following a replacement for the Harry Potter ride."

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