Redbank Railway Workshops

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

History

1225 outside the workshops

With its Ipswich Workshops becoming increasingly cramped, in July 1958 Queensland Railways opened a new workshop facility in Redbank to maintain its new diesel locomotive fleet.[1][2] However it would be 25 years before all the functions were transferred from Ipswich.[3]

The works perform heavy maintenance on Aurizon's locomotive and wagon fleet. It also has a contract to maintain rolling stock for Queensland Rail.[3]

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.[4][5]

In November 2014, the site was sold to the Goodman Group who will lease it back to Aurizon until operations cease.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Redbank Centre for the Government of Queensland
  2. ↑ Redbank Then & Now City of Ipswich
  3. 1 2 "Aurizon to close Redbank and Townsville Workshops" Railway Digest July 2014 page 18
  4. ↑ Aurizon job cuts hit workers at Townsville and Redbank ABC News 8 May 2014
  5. ↑ End of the line for Redbank railway workshops Queensland Times 9 May 2014
  6. ↑ Aurizon finalises sale of maintenance assets at Redbank Aurizon 4 November 2014

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