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BUNG BONG STATION GROUND

Location STATION LANE, MOONLIGHT FLAT VIC 3465 Level Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

Bung Bong station ground and ballast siding is of archaeological significance for the potential to reveal information on patterns of land use and consumption in relatively isolated local community served primarily by railway between the 1870s and 1950s. It is of historical significance as evidence of a former gold mining and farming community which underwent dramatic change in the mid 20th century, and for the role in provision of ballast and bluestone for the railway construction and maintenance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Evidence of the station can be recognised from the surviving platforms, access tracks, remnants of signaling and fencing and sidings. The extensive ballast quarries to the north are also evident. Structural remains of a house or station building including squared bluestone masonry and brick, are evident on the south side of the line adjacent to the former station entrance road (Station Road) which runs south from the line. Domestic artefacts including glass and ceramic tableware and food container fragments are scattered widely around this area. Other structural features relating to the station platform are on the north side of the line.

Group

Transport - Rail

Category

Railway Platform/ Station