Grandchester railway station

Grandchester railway station
Grandchester railway station
	Grandchester railway station, 2006
Location	Ipswich Road, Grandchester, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°39′46″S152°27′59″E / 27.6627°S 152.4663°E Coordinates: 27°39′46″S152°27′59″E / 27.6627°S 152.4663°E
Design period	1870s - 1890s (late 19th century)
Built	1875 - 1876
Queensland Heritage Register
	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 Grandchester railway station (Australia)

Last updated January 02, 2020

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.^[1]

History

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Description

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)).^[1]

External linings are rusticated with 265-millimetre (10.4 in) exposed faces and double hung windows without horns having glazing bards. Internal alterations have been extensive although evidence of the original two bedrooms, living room, waiting room and office is presumed to exist, especially in the form of early timber ceiling linings and cornices. There is a roll of honour board inside, painted by Hugh F. O'Brien, Toowoomba.^[1]

There is a signal cabin with a 22 lever T-bar machine in the down end of the building, placed out of service presumably in 1988 with the introduction of centralized traffic control (CTC).^[1]

The tank is a two tier cast iron tank altered from a single tier tank at an unknown date. The linings to the stand are recent and the shaped ends to the main beams project through the linings. There is an associated dam which is presumed to supply the tank, also a brick well and associated pumphouse.^[1]

The station master's house is a standard elevated second class house with a pyramidal roof, peripheral verandah and (possibly later) ventilator. The verandah post enrichment may be uncommon, but the overall form is not uncommon.^[1]

Heritage listing

Grandchester Railway Complex was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.

Grandchester Railway complex has historical importance as the western terminus of the first railway in Queensland, opened on 31 July 1865.^[1]

Grandchester as a place is commonly acknowledged to be an historical railway site of State significance. It was the first railway station built in Queensland using local materials.^[1]

The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

The survival of a station building incorporating quarters is also rare (compare Clifton, Springsure and Pentland).^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

The station building and tank are key elements demonstrating its early date and are understood to have existed on this site from the mid-late 1870s, predating other railway buildings in Queensland with the possible exception of Gracemere (Central Line), Murphys Creek (Main Line), Nobby and Clifton (Southern Line).^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Grandchester Railway Complex (entry 600729)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
↑ "Grandchester Railway Station". National Trust of Queensland. Retrieved 14 April 2015.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Grandchester Railway Complex (entry 600729)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[2] "Grandchester Railway Station". National Trust of Queensland. Retrieved 14 April 2015.