Redbank Railway Workshops are workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for

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, located in Redbank,

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, Australia.

History

With the

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becoming increasingly cramped, in July 1958,

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ways opened a new workshop facility in Redbank to maintain its new diesel locomotive fleet. However, it would be 25 years before all the functions were transferred from Ipswich."Aurizon to close Redbank and Townsville Workshops" ''

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'' July 2014 page 18 The workshops perform heavy maintenance on

's locomotive and wagon fleet. It also has a contract to maintain rolling stock for

. In May 2014, Aurizon announced that it would cease maintaining Queensland Rail rolling stock at Redbank, with the workshops to close by 2017. In November 2014, the site was sold to the

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who leased it back to Aurizon. In 2016, as part of a contract to outsource Aurizon's rolling stock maintenance to

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, it was announced that the workshops would remain open. As of late 2018, Queensland Rail no longer maintains their

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there, having relocated to

Locomotive Museum

In February 1970 the Redbank Locomotive Museum opened as an open air museum with 13 members of the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet ( 2, 6, 48,

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, 221A,

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and

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) on display. It closed in 1992 with the locomotives transferred to the

References

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History

Locomotive Museum

See also

References