The Islington Railway Workshops were the chief railway workshops of the South Australian Railways. It was established in 1883 and is still in operation today. As part of William Webb's revitalisation of the railways, the workshops were expanded in the 1920s. In 2012, the site was given provisional listing as a heritage site. Located in Adelaide's northern suburbs, it built many of the locomotives and items of rolling stock that served the South Australian Railways including: It also built 13 Australian Standard Garratts for the Queensland Railways and Western Australian Government Railways.