Museums
The Workshops Rail Museum
(07) 3432 5100
North St
North Ipswich, QLD, 4305
The Workshops Rail Museum
Built around a collection of heritage listed buildings the Workshops Rail Museum is only 20 minutes from Brisbane city in Ipswich.
With interactive exhibitions get ready for a hands on affair as you learn about locomotives and the area's urban history.
Take the kids to play with model trains as well as the real thing.
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Well worth the 20-minute drive from the CBD, this museum is popular with families in the Brisbane area. Most exhibitions are interactive and include diesel locomotives, an impressive model railway and the fantastic kid-sized nippers area, where children can run a railway system themselves. Special events occur throughout the year such as Steam Train Sundays (when the whole family can travel around Brisbane for an hour in vintage style) and The Great Train Robbery where you can follow clues and try to find the ...read more
Okay, it is a bit of a hike to get to but if you like trains then it is certainly well worth the effort. Unfortunately you do need to catch a bus from the Ipswich Railway Station to get here, though the journey takes only about ten to fifteen minutes (however it does take an hour by train from the city). This place used to the the Queensland Rail Workshops, and in a way they still are, except that the only things that are worked on here are old steam trains. It is not so much that they build them, rather they refurbish them for use during events. In fact the entire Queensland Rail steam fleet is located here, if they aren't elsewhere. The museum is the first building and is a marvellous place for kids, however if you like the technical stuff, they do run tours of the workshops in the morning (so make sure you arrive early). The museum itself have various displays of trains and exploring the uses in Queensland for industries such as tourism and mining. As I said, it is well ...read more
