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Redbank Railway Workshops are a major workshops for the repair and heavy maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock for Aurizon. ==History== With its Ipswich Workshops becoming increasingly cramped, in July 1958 Queensland Railways opened a new workshop facility in Redbank to maintain its new diesel locomotive fleet.〔(Redbank ) Centre for the Government of Queensland〕〔(Redbank Then & Now ) City of Ipswich〕 However it would be 25 years before all the functions were transferred from Ipswich.〔"Aurizon to close Redbank and Townsville Workshops" ''Railway Digest'' July 2014 page 18〕 The works perform heavy maintenance on Aurizon's locomotive and wagon fleet. It also has a contract to maintain rolling stock for Queensland Rail.〔 In May 2014, Aurizon announced that it would cease maintaining Queensland Rail rolling stock at Redbank from June 2015, with the entire works to close by June 2017.〔(Aurizon job cuts hit workers at Townsville and Redbank ) ''ABC News'' 8 May 2014〕〔(End of the line for Redbank railway workshops ) ''Queensland Times'' 9 May 2014〕 In November 2014, the site was sold to the Goodman Group who will lease it back to Aurizon until operations cease.〔(Aurizon finalises sale of maintenance assets at Redbank ) Aurizon 4 November 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Redbank Railway Workshops」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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