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Restored locomotive, Ipswich Railway Workshops, North Ipswich, 1969
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TitleRestored locomotive, Ipswich Railway Workshops, North Ipswich, 1969Date Created1969PhotographerKerry Paul Smith (1950-2025)AcknowledgementKerry Smith
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DescriptionRestored locomotive for Redbank Rail Museum. The Museum was open from 1969 to 1992.Additional Information Steam locomotive B18 No. 771 being shunted from North Ipswich Workshops prior to entry in Redbank Locomotive Museum.
The collection of steam locomotives that formed the basis of the former Redbank Steam Locomotive Museum had its beginnings in 1963.
At this time an approach was made to Queensland Railways that C19 700, and BB181/4 1089, along with RM55 be set aside for eventual preservation by the Australian Railway Historical Society (Qld Division). At this time the ongoing introduction of diesel-electric motive power by Queensland Railways had lead to the withdrawal of older forms of motive power on the then QR network. The 1960s accelerated the rate of change on the Queensland Railways, as it was this era that saw a large number of branch line closures, between 1960-65, the withdrawal of older locomotives, and railmotors, introduction of new rollingstock, and by the end of the decade the complete withdrawal of all steam locomotives.
Plans to establish a museum exhibiting a selection of steam locomotives that had operated on railways in Queensland were formed by members of the ARHS Qld Division, mainly on the realisation that the use of steam locomotives would cease within what was then thought to be a generation. In 1964 an approach was made to Queensland Railways with the object of having certain locomotives set aside for preservation. The plans were so that: "future generations might have the opportunity to see, at first hand, full size examples of this form of locomotion…" At about this same time the Ipswich Rotary Club announced plans to preserve in Ipswich the static locomotive A10 No.3, and two carriages that had previously been placed on display at Countess Street, in Brisbane.
A number of sites were considered over the next few years, and the plan proceeded with the full support of the then Commissioner for Railways, Alva G Lee. The initial plan to select six steam locomotives was increased to fourteen. As part of the museum complex, a small caretaker’s office for sale of souvenirs etc. and for the use of ARHS members was supplied.
The museum was officially opened on 7 February 1970. Over the preceding six years, two important exhibits had been donated to Queensland Railways, by an organisation external to QR. These were A10 No.6, and B13 48, which had operated privately on Gibson & Howes private tramway at Bingara and Watawa, near Bundaberg.
The collection of steam locomotives that formed the basis of the former Redbank Steam Locomotive Museum had its beginnings in 1963.
At this time an approach was made to Queensland Railways that C19 700, and BB181/4 1089, along with RM55 be set aside for eventual preservation by the Australian Railway Historical Society (Qld Division). At this time the ongoing introduction of diesel-electric motive power by Queensland Railways had lead to the withdrawal of older forms of motive power on the then QR network. The 1960s accelerated the rate of change on the Queensland Railways, as it was this era that saw a large number of branch line closures, between 1960-65, the withdrawal of older locomotives, and railmotors, introduction of new rollingstock, and by the end of the decade the complete withdrawal of all steam locomotives.
Plans to establish a museum exhibiting a selection of steam locomotives that had operated on railways in Queensland were formed by members of the ARHS Qld Division, mainly on the realisation that the use of steam locomotives would cease within what was then thought to be a generation. In 1964 an approach was made to Queensland Railways with the object of having certain locomotives set aside for preservation. The plans were so that: "future generations might have the opportunity to see, at first hand, full size examples of this form of locomotion…" At about this same time the Ipswich Rotary Club announced plans to preserve in Ipswich the static locomotive A10 No.3, and two carriages that had previously been placed on display at Countess Street, in Brisbane.
A number of sites were considered over the next few years, and the plan proceeded with the full support of the then Commissioner for Railways, Alva G Lee. The initial plan to select six steam locomotives was increased to fourteen. As part of the museum complex, a small caretaker’s office for sale of souvenirs etc. and for the use of ARHS members was supplied.
The museum was officially opened on 7 February 1970. Over the preceding six years, two important exhibits had been donated to Queensland Railways, by an organisation external to QR. These were A10 No.6, and B13 48, which had operated privately on Gibson & Howes private tramway at Bingara and Watawa, near Bundaberg.
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Government & Non-Government OrganisationsQueensland Railways Locomotive MuseumNorth Ipswich Railway WorkshopsTaxonomy20th Century | 1960s | 1969
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