Grandchester railway station, Heritage railway station in Ipswich, Australia.
Grandchester railway station stands on a timber platform at a bend of Western Creek, its hipped roof carried over a verandah that runs around every elevation, posted at the ends and roadside and on later plain brackets above the platform. A central chimney stack with arched cowls rises from the roof. The walls are rusticated weatherboard with 265 mm exposed faces, and the double-hung windows have no horns.
This station served as the western terminus of Queensland's first railway line when it opened in 1865. Major construction work took place between 1875 and 1876, expanding and upgrading the facilities.
Inside the station building hangs a roll of honour board painted by Hugh F. O'Brien of Toowoomba. The station buildings are run by the Queensland branch of the National Trust of Australia, and volunteers open them to the public once a month with guided tours.
The station buildings are run by the National Trust of Australia's Queensland branch and open to the public once a month, when volunteers give guided tours. The site sits in a rural bend of Western Creek off Ipswich Road, with the timber platform, two-tier cast iron tank, brick well and pumphouse still in place. The signal cabin's 22-lever T-bar machine, out of service since about 1988, can be seen at the down end of the building.
The station building and its two-tier cast iron tank are thought to have stood on this site since the mid-to-late 1870s, making them older than almost every other railway building in Queensland except possibly those at Gracemere, Murphys Creek, Nobby and Clifton. The tank began as a single-tier structure and was later altered, and its stand's shaped beam ends still project through recent linings.
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