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Ringwood Railway Station

Location Maroondah Highway RINGWOOD, MAROONDAH CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The Ringwood Railway Station complex consists of a brick downside building (1889), a timber upside building (1891), timber signal-box and pedestrian bridge. The brick building is one of only three in Victoria designed in this style and the timber building is the best of the three surviving. Examples of this type, and one of the only seven surviving timber stations in metropolitan Melbourne. The entire complex is regionally significant to metropolitan Melbourne historically for its association with transport developments in the life of the Ringwood community and in demonstrating a changing sequence of usage with the development of Ringwood over the past 110 years. It demonstrates the effect of government action to develop public transport systems. It is architecturally significant as a representative example of a rural railway station complex, a relatively intact survival, still in its original use. It has social significance as known and valued by the community as a meeting place and as a landmark, used for orientation.