The Workshops Rail Museum 🚆 Ipswich, Queensland
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- čas přidán 22. 11. 2022
- More info here: theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au/
About an hour east of Brisbane, within the former Ipswich Railway workshop, is the aptly named 'Workshops Railway Museum'.
It has to be one of Australia's best rail museums, because it's focus not only on locomotives and rollingstock, but railways in general. It has an extensive collection of items manufactured on site, and also delves into the history and significance the workshops played in providing skilled trades to generations.
It has an excellent display of historical Queensland Railways items, and gives a comprehensive look into the development of rail in Queensland.
There is also fantastic model railway display and, my personal favourite, a train driver simulator in built into the cab of a 1700 class diesel.
Enjoy this short look at the museum, and do yourself a favour and visit if you're ever around. - Věda a technologie
We used to go as a family every three months. Always good and interesting things to see - steam locomotive maintenance and restoration, carriage overhauls, the blacksmith shop and many static displays. But those days are gone. Hardly anything changes in the museum. The blacksmith shop tour is gone, the traverser no longer gives patrons a ride and the steam tour was cut back to virtually nothing. With a very nice collection of steam locomotives parked out the back with no public access there's really no point in visiting. Seen it once and that's enough.
This is great context. I thought it was great as a one off visit. I didn't realise that it used to have so much more on offer! I did see the QR Heritage section fenced off at the back and thought it was a bit disappointing that there wasn't a proper public viewing area.
On my bucket list when I next visit Qld.
Queensland went for narrow gauge, as did Tasmania, WA & parts of SA. NSW went for standard gauge & Victoria & parts of SA went broad gauge - all prior to Federation.
The narrow gauge is 3 foot 6 inches (1,067 mm), standard 4 foot 81/2 inches (1,435mm) & broad 5 foot 3 inches (1,600mm).
I know this as when I was 10 years old my family went from Sydney to Perth by train- over 5 days as the Sydney to Perth via Broken Hill standard gauge had not been finished So we had to go vis Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Pirie, Port Augusta & Kalgoorlie & then finally Perth- having to change trains due to changes in railway gauges - as a 10-year-old it was a fantastic experience - as this Railway Museum sure looks like based on your video. Thank you for sharing.
What a great little summary of the rail gauges in this country 👏 all those train changes would have made for an eventful trip!
Went out to Ipswich during my trip to Qld several years back, because why not? I enjoyed the museum, and hope to head back there if I ever make it out to Qld again.
I know they have a heritage railways nearby, which wasn't running when I visited, but could make a great day out. Train ride + museum!
QR uses 1,067mm or narrow gauge, which is the second largest in the world, I think. It allows for heavy duty trains to easily navigate the undulating landscapes that Queensland’s known for, especially in the Sunny Coast hinterland and the Kuranda scenic express which I would be keen to try out one day. The rest of Australia, the standard gauge in NSW and broad gauge in VIC and SA, it gets more challenging.
Do you mean second narrowest? While you are absolutely correct about narrow gauge in QLD, narrow gauge is number 3 for width in just Australia! Most of the national rail network is standard gauge (1435mm), whilst most of the Victorian rail network (and a little into Southern NSW & most of the Adelaide rail network) is broad gauge (1607(?)mm).
You are also correct about the benefits of narrow gauge. Reading the history at the museum, it tells that narrow gauge track was cheaper to build and easier to build in more rugged areas.
@@AlexsTrainChannel actually, I did a bit of research on Wikipedia, and found we’re apparently third largest in the world behind Japan (22,301 km) and South Africa (20,500 km approx.).
Gauge is 3 feet 6 inches
Correct ✅
The main rail guage is 3 foot 6 inch guage
Very Good Alex Need to get up and Have a look in person
Well worth a visit!
i wish this museum can help other rail museums that have issues with money
I'm not sure any of the museum's are making that much money that they could spare any to give to another. In Victoria the preservation groups help each other out a lot, so where they can, they all help out.
@@AlexsTrainChannel the rosewood railway museum needs some serious restoration on their exhibits
3 foot 6 inches
3ft 6 and a half
Queensland mainly uses Nasty Gauge, most of the country uses Shitty Gauge and Victoria uses Best Gauge.
Depending on which state you are in, I think the terms are used interchangeably lol
You must live in NSW or VIC lol
This museum is in dire need of a facelift. The artifacts are stale and there's little to zero variety. If you went once a year every year, nothing would change.