The Workshops Rail Museum

Well, this is one of those places to make to effort to visit if you happen to be a train-​o-​phile. Well, I guess unless you have a roaring passion for trains, or a bunch of kids, them maybe the effort to actually get here would probably be too much. However it is certainly worth the trip (unless you have a car, it is an hour long trip by train from the city, and another fifteen minutes by bus). Anyway, this is basically a museum that has been set up in the old Queensland Rail workshops in Ipswich and contains everthing about the history of rail transport in Queensland. In fact it even looks a some of the modern aspects of the Queensland rail network, including a display on the tilt-​train and the Brisbane transport network. Oh, they also have an operating workshop out the back where they work on the diesel and stream trains, many of them used only for tourist purposes these days. If you get here early enough you can even go on a guided tour of the place. It is certainly one of those places to go if you have kids, or even just a lover of trains.