By: Picture Ipswich14th Oct 2026 12:41PMComments from the original 'By the Bremer' blog post, from the Ipswich Libraries' website:
21/01/2016
In researching my family history, I read in the newspaper article "Glimpses of Early Ipswich, 7 Oct, 1899, my ancestor Mrs Mary Murphy lived "almost opposite the original railway station near the Presbyterian Church" on Ellenborough Street. I would love to find a photo of the area. Can anyone help please?
By: Picture Ipswich14th Oct 2026 12:40PMComments from the original 'By the Bremer' blog post, from the Ipswich Libraries' website:
24/12/2015
What a beautiful building. What a shame it didn't survive the construction of a bland shopping centre and car park. I think the photo is more likely to be earlier than 1985. My wife and I came to live in Ipswich in 1983, but used the new station to travel to Brisbane daily from then.
By: Picture Ipswich14th Oct 2026 12:40PMComments from the original 'By the Bremer' blog post, from the Ipswich Libraries' website:
11/01/2013
What a lovely picture of the Ipswich Railway Station in use till the 1980s. Where was it? Which street?
We have lived here since 1976 and have never seen that at all. We used to travel to Brisbane every weekday to work but we went from Booval station, and never went in to Ipswich station.
15/01/2013
Librarian response:
Hi Eunice and Ron,
Thanks for replying to this post about the Ipswich Railway Station.
The Ipswich Railway Station that was still in use until the mid 1980s was located in Union Street. According to the information we have on Picture Ipswich, this photograph was taken in 1985.
19/01/2013
Thanks for that reply Jo, isn't that amazing, we have lived here all these years and don't remember seeing that station at all - Ron used to work in the Ipswich Post Office but did not get out in the town much at that time.
All the best
Eunice and Ron
By: Picture Ipswich14th Oct 2026 12:38PMComments from the original 'By the Bremer' blog post, from the Ipswich Libraries' website:
24/11/2012
I grew up in Rosewood and spent a lot of time traveling between Rosewood and Ipswich. How I wish this station had remained instead of the one that is there now.
Also I had been lead to believe that the first Queensland Railway station was the Grandchester station?
27/11/2012
Librarian response:
Hi Sunova,
Thanks for your comment. It sounds like you would have many memories of travelling on the train between Rosewood and Ipswich over the years.
In regards to the first railway station erected in Queensland, this is a rather interesting topic.
We have checked a couple of resources in our Local History collection (e.g. Jubilee History of Ipswich) which have stated that Ipswich had the first railway station in the state. However, both the railway stations at Ipswich and Grandchester (then Bigg's or Bigge's Camp) were erected in 1865. In an Queensland Times article by Robyn Buchanan (dated March 3 1986), she notes that the Ipswich Railway station opened in August 1865.
We also came across a Grandchester Railway Station Heritage Assessment Plan compiled in 2010 (http://www.queenslandrail.com.au/AboutUs/Documents/Grandchester%20HMP%20Final.pdf) that mentions that at the time the railway line between Ipswich to Bigge's Camp was opened on 31 July 1865, only half of the Grandchester station was complete.
