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

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, located in

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, Australia.

History

With its

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becoming increasingly cramped, in July 1958

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ways opened a new workshop facility in

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 works 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 from June 2015, with the entire works to close by June 2017. In November 2014, the site was sold to the

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who will lease 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. Queensland Rail no longer maintain their Citytrain fleet there having relocated to

recently ( In late 2018 ).

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, 106, 221A,

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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