Warwick railway station, Queensland
| Warwick railway station | |
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Station front in 2008
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| Location | Lyons Street, Warwick, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 28°13′03″S 152°02′28″E / 28.2174°S 152.0412°ECoordinates: 28°13′03″S 152°02′28″E / 28.2174°S 152.0412°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1881 - 1910s |
| Owner | Queensland Rail |
| Official name: Warwick Railway Complex | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 24 September 1999 |
| Reference no. | 600955 |
| Significant period | 1880s-1950s (historical) 1880s-ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | memorial - honour board/ roll of honour, platform, track, kitchen/kitchen house, residential accommodation - workers' quarters, yards - livestock, platform canopies/awnings (railway), railway siding, shed - goods, residential accommodation - station master's house/quarters, yards - sale, residential accommodation - inspector's house/quarters, railway station, shed/s, institute - railway, garden/grounds |
 Location of Warwick railway station in Queensland
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Warwick railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Southern railway line in Warwick, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1881 to 1910s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 September 1999.
Warwick railway station is an amalgam of buildings dating from the mid 1880s, when this site became the principal railway station in Warwick. The buildings include a sandstone goods shed and passenger station, a turntable, various staff dwelling and recreational buildings, warehouses and a goods sale yard complex.
Warwick was established as an administrative centre of the emerging Darling Downs regions in 1847, with a post office being established in the town in 1848. This year saw the first survey work of the embryonic town completed by surveyor, James Charles Burnett, with further surveys in 1850, and the first sale of crown land in July 1850. On 24 May 1861, Warwick was granted the status of a municipality (the Borough of Warwick), and discussions were held soon after concerning the introduction of the railway which was in primary stages of planning in Queensland.
The first rail line in Queensland, between Bigge's Camp (later Grandchester) and Ipswich, opened in 1865, and it was always the intention of the early Queensland Government to extend the line to provide the pastoral land to the west of Ipswich with a rail link. The line extended to Toowoomba in 1867. In February 1866, a contract was let for the extension of the rail line from Toowoomba to Warwick.
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