Workshops Rail Museum, Railway museum in Ipswich City, Australia.

The Workshops Rail Museum is a railway museum in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, housing locomotives, carriages, and original workshop machinery across a series of large heritage buildings. The collection covers rail technology from early steam engines to electric systems, displayed inside the very sheds where the work once took place.

Construction of the first Ipswich railway workshops began in 1863, about a kilometre south of the present site on the banks of the Bremer River, to serve the line opened to Grandchester on 31 July 1865. The workshops built their first locomotive, the A10 "Ipswich" class, in 1877, and the first locally designed locomotive, the B17 class, in 1908. At their peak during World War II they employed around 3,000 men and women. The workshops have operated continuously since the 1800s, and the museum opened within them in 2002.

The museum captures how the railway shaped the growth of towns across Queensland, drawing workers and families to settle near the lines and workshops. Displays tell the personal stories of the people who built and ran this network over many generations.

The site is large enough to fill most of a day, so it helps to arrive with enough time to move through all the exhibition halls without rushing. The ground is level throughout, which makes getting around straightforward for visitors of all ages and mobility.

Many of the locomotives and carriages on display were actually built or repaired at the Ipswich workshops themselves, meaning they have returned to the exact place where they were once worked on. This connection between the objects and the building they sit in is something few other railway museums can offer.