For more that 70 years Cobb & Co. coaches and horses travelled over millions of miles of outback to provide a vital communication link for many isolated communities.  With the starting of Cobb and Co. in 1854, they thundered their way to the mining camps in Victoria at the peak of the gold rush.  After the Gold Rush, they continued their run in parts of Australia for over seventy years.  In Queensland they withstood the challenge of the motorcar, the railway and the aeroplane until the 1930's.  Cobb and Co. was not the first stage coach to travel over great expansed of land, however, . The call of the bugle is no longer heard in the outback and the thousands of coach horses have disappeared.  The changing stations, stables and the coach factories have all very sadly been replaced with the service stations and car garages. The final run of Cobb and Co was in the year of 1924 when the curtain fell.

Situated on the old Cobb and Co. route in South East Queensland, Grandchester is a settlement full of history and picturesque views. Located 76 kms west of Brisbane and just 38 kms from Ipswich, Grandchester is a small settlement with claims to fame including the Grandchester Railway Station which was constructed when the railway from Ipswich terminated at Grandchester, and the marvellous Grandchester steam-driven sawmill.  Granchester was originally known as Bigges Camp; after  the pioneering pastoralist Fredrick Bigges.  Grandchester is derived from Latin: Bigges (Grand) and  Camp (Chester).

Inspired by the true great Aussie outback history that Grandchester has to offer it has paved the way to this new venture: The Grandchester Stagecoach Company. Day tours down the tree-lined dirt roads allows you; the traveller, to sit back and relax as the rattle of the chains and the sound of the hooves takes you back in time to the way transportation through this great country once was.