Address
Freeman Road
Rosewood Railway Museum
Rosewood
Queensland
4340
Australia
Phone
+61
07
3252 1759
Fax
+61
07
3376 6735
If you head for a little place called Rosewood, tucked away in the Bremer River valley, the train is waiting for you on the last Sunday of each month. Rosewood is 50 kilometres west of the city of Brisbane and 18 kilometres west of Ipswich and is served by the electric train from Ipswich.
The town is home to the Rosewood Railway Museum that seeks to recreate the atmosphere of a typical Queensland branch line of the steam and early Diesel era. The Museum is an operating railway that includes a PB15 steam locomotive that hauls restored wooden carriages plus a variety of diesel locomotives and railmotors. The line is high in the hills above Rosewood so there are plenty of steep grades where the steam engine has to work hard.
The museum, part of the Australian Railway Historical Society Queensland Division, also has an extensive collection of restored carriages and wagons on display.
Trains run on the last Sunday of each month and the Museum is open as a static display on the other Sundays of each month. Cab rides in the vintage diesel locomotives are available around the main depot yard at Kunkala Station on running days.
There are three stations on the railway, which is total of eight kilometres long in two separate sections. On running days vintage railmotors leave Museum Junction Station in Railway Street. Rosewood hourly between 9.40 a.m. and 1.40 p.m. for the trip to Perry's Nob, where a bus waits to transport visitors the short distance to Cabanda Station and the steam train which conveys visitors in heritage wooden carriages to our main depot at Kunkala. Steam trains depart Cabanda hourly between 10.15 a.m. and 4.15 p.m.
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Facilities
- Car park
- Picnic Area
- Public Toilet
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Experiences
- Adventure
- Educational Tourism
- Historic/Heritage
- Industry/Mining/Agriculture
- Rail