It's a classic story: Jo Scott loved the pub so much she bought it. Born and bred in Ilfracombe , near Longreach in western Queensland, Jo started working in the Wellshot Hotel as a kitchen hand when she was 16. Today, she's the proud owner of the pub she practically grew up in. "After I left and went away to college, I would come back on the train, get off and go straight to the pub to work behind the bar," she laughs. "I just love it; it has never been just a job for me, even though it is hard work." Ilfracombe's only pub, the Wellshot Hotel started life on a small railway siding west of Anakie called Withersfield, but as the railway line was being built, the pub's enterprising owner Paddy Finn decided to move it west along the line as it progressed. He dismantled it and moved it to Barcaldine where it stood for about 10 years before once again being shifted by bullock cart to Ilfracombe, where it became the Wellshot. That was in 1890. There were five pubs in the town at that time, but the Wellshot is the only survivor. It is named after Wellshot Station -- the largest sheep station in the world at the time. And strangely, despite being 650 kilometres from the Queensland coast, Ilfracombe was named after a little seaside village in England. The train still comes through the town, but these days it's Queensland Rail's Spirit of the Outback