North Ipswich is a suburb of Ipswich

Ipswich, Queensland

Ipswich is a city in South-East Queensland, Australia. Situated along the Bremer River Valley approximately 40 kilometres away from the state's capital Brisbane. The suburb by the same name forms the city's Central Business District and administrative centre...

, Queensland

Queensland

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. This is the birthplace of Queensland Rail. The original site is now the site of Riverlink shopping centre on The Terrace and the current site is used as a joint facility containing the very popular multi award winning Rail Workshop Museum.

Raymonds Hill is a locality within the suburb of North Ipswich.

Housing

• Contains a large number of character and heritage listed houses, such as workers cottages that were home to the many railway workers.

Monuments=

• Browns Park contains the first police monument that was funded by public subscripition. The *monument was erected in memory of Constable James Sangster who drowned in the Brisbane river *trying to save a young family from drowning.

• Large World War I monument within the grounds of the Ipswich Rail Workshops

External links

• University of Queensland: Queensland Places:North Ipswich