Grandchester railway station
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Grandchester railway station, 2006
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| Location | Ipswich Road, Grandchester, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°39′46″S 152°27′59″E / 27.6627°S 152.4663°ECoordinates: 27°39′46″S 152°27′59″E / 27.6627°S 152.4663°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1875 - 1876 |
| Official name: Grandchester Railway Complex, Bigge's Camp | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600729 |
| Significant period | 1875-1960s (historical) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - station master's house/quarters, tower - water, chimney/chimney stack, pump house, office/s, waiting room, shed - storage, tank - water, views to, memorial - honour board/ roll of honour, platform, railway station, well, machinery/plant/equipment - transport - rail, signals |
 Location of Grandchester railway station in Queensland
Location of Grandchester railway station in Queensland
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Grandchester railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station at Ipswich Road, Grandchester, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1875 to 1876. It is also known as Bigge's Camp. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Grandchester, originally known as Bigge's Camp, is the western terminus for the first railway in Queensland and the first section of the Main Line to Toowoomba, opened from Ipswich on 31 July 1865. Works were carried out to the station building in 1875 and 1876. The goods shed was also built in that year. T. Neville signed a contract to undertake work on the station buildings on 19 December 1878.
The tank was relocated from Laidley in 1876 and a locomotive stationed here from 1885 to assist trains over the Little Liverpool Range. James Stewart signed a contract on 14 March 1885 to build an engine shed, and Worley and Whitehead signed a contract to build a second goods shed on 15 June 1885.
The station master's house was built in 1910 and alterations carried out to the station building around that time. By 1961 the complex consisted of a station building with signal cabin, two tanks, cream shed, closet, pumphouse, station master's house, forkline to cattleyards, engine shed and coal stage. The engine shed had been demolished by 1963 and the trucking yards were discontinued in 1991.
The station buildings are now operated by the Queensland branch of the National Trust of Australia. It is open to the public once a month, with volunteers offering guided tours.
Grandchester is in a predominately rural setting in a bend on the Western Creek. The station building is situated on a timber platform and adopts a unique architectural form with a hipped roof and peripheral verandah to all elevations, posted on the ends and roadside and carried on later plain brackets over the platform. There is a prominent central chimney stack with arched cowls (compare with the surviving station master's house at Wallangarra railway station (1887) and the former at Esk (1886)).
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