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 crook.
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