Things to See and Do

Heritage Truck & Machinery Museum

Take a trip into Transport History with a visit to Winton’s Heritage Truck and Machinery Museum.

View fully-restored heritage trucks, tractors and machinery.

Situated just over the railway line on the Hughenden Road.

Winton's Diamantina Heritage Truck and Machinery Museum was officially opened at the Outback Festival in 2007.

Museum opening times
8am to 6pm Daily

No entry fee—Donations greatly appreciated

For further information contact: Buddoo Grant 0427571191 or Robyn Stephens 0429806140

Quick Links

Waltzing Matilda Centre

Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways

Winton Shire Council

Australian Age of Dinosaurs

The Outback Way

Australia's Dinosaur Trail

Dig the Tropic

Matilda Highway

Outback Holidays

Central Western Queensland

Winton Snippets

Pelican Waterhole

Winton was originally known as Pelican Waterhole. Local tradition is that the Postmaster, Robert Allen, an ex-police officer from Aramac, gave the town its modern name. As Ppostmaster, he found the name Pelican Waterhole too difficult to write on postage stamps, so he substituted Winton, after his birthplace in Bournemouth, England.