FORMER YEA RAILWAY STATION

Location

14 STATION STREET YEA, MURRINDINDI SHIRE

File Number

603519

Level

Registered

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The former Railway Station at Yea is the most intact example of a small group of standard Gothic-styled Railway Station buildings. The complex includes a station building and platform, refreshment rooms, parcel/storage shed and goods shed. The main station building was constructed in 1889 by contractor N Erwin, following the opening of the north eastern line branch from Tallarook in 1883.

The station represents the most picturesque design of railway buildings prepared by the Railways Department. it features polychromatic brickwork, decorative barge-work and a jerkinhead slate roof. The entrance porch includes detailing consistent with the Tudor style featuring shallow and angular pointed openings to the windows. The walls are pierced with blind slit windows, and the verandah columns are finished with foliated capitals.

How is it significant?

The former Yea Railway Station is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?

The station complex represents the most intact example of a small group of Gothic styled Railway Station buildings built in the late nineteenth century.

The main station building is the most picturesque design of railway buildings prepared by the Railways Department.

Group

Transport - Rail

Category

Goods shed/crane