Former Railway Gatekeepers House, Stocks Lane, No. 2, Walloon, Ipswich, 2024

Creator Details

TitleFormer Railway Gatekeepers House, Stocks Lane, No. 2, Walloon, Ipswich, 2024Date CreatedMarch 2024PhotographerGraeme KingAcknowledgementThis content was provided by the Ipswich Heritage Program, overseen by City Design Branch, Planning & Regulatory Services, Ipswich City Council

Location

StreetStocks LaneSuburbWalloonCity & StateIpswich, QueenslandGeo Coordinates^[1]

Description

DescriptionPhotographs taken for proposed Ipswich heritage registerAdditional Information The original station building was built in 1865. It was constructed at a cost of £1, 546, by Pryde and Welsby. Pryde and Welsby also undertook the construction of station buildings at Gatton, and Murphy’s Creek, as well as gatekeepers cottages at Alford (Grantham), Brassal and the Toowoomba railway station buildings. In 1867 Walloon experienced flooding in January and April. The April flood rose to the level of the station platform, and carried away a large amount of ballast.

In 1876-77 the station building was enlarged, mainly to cope with the accommodation of a telegraph unit. Local farmers, store keepers and miners had petitioned the Queensland parliament in 1880 asking that better loading facilities be provided at Walloon. The Minster for Works after a visit promised to provide improved accommodation. A coal stage was built in 1880. A goods shed was constructed in the station yard the following year. New station buildings were built at Walloon in March 1883, at a cost of £1,380. John Farrelly was the contractor on the works. Part of the work included relocating the station to a new location. The old (1865) Walloon station was located approximately 600 metres to the west of the present station area. In 1918 the Southern and Western railway was duplicated through Walloon.

Additional information provided by Queensland Rail Historian Greg Hallam

Connections

Buildings & StructuresHouseTaxonomy21st Century | 2020s | 2024

Subjects

SubjectsGatekeeperGardenRailways

Asset Details

Asset TypeImage - JpegImages, Maps and Artefacts (Trove mapping field)imageColour or Black & White ImageColourGenreArchitecture - DomesticPhysical DescriptionBorn DigitalCopyright StatusCreative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike (CC:BY-NC-SA)Copyright NoticeTo use this work, please contact the Picture Ipswich Digital Archivist.
CopyrightPicture Ipswich Copyright Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Australian License

This licence lets you download, redistribute, translate, and remix the work, for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes only. In return, you MUST always acknowledge the original creator of the work (photographer, studio, author, etc.) and acknowledge Picture Ipswich as your source of the work. All derivatives of this work MUST be shared under the same Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. If you require a higher resolution copy of this work, please contact Picture Ipswich.

OCR Text Transcription Edit Edit +-Close

Save Cancel + Row + Column

Former Railway Gatekeepers House, Stocks Lane, No. 2, Walloon, Ipswich, 2024

Start typing here to find a location	Latitude	Longitude	Zoom	Actions

loading google map....

Save Cancel

Menu

Former Railway Gatekeepers House, Stocks Lane, No. 2, Walloon, Ipswich, 2024