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LILYDALE RAILWAY STATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRECINCT

Location 72-86 MAIN STREET, LILYDALE VIC 3140 Level Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

The site is significant because of its association with the railway from Melbourne to Lilydale, which opened in 1882, contributing to the development of Lilydale as a township and to the economic development of the region.

The bridge remains are significant because they have the potential to provide information about the early development of the railway and the engineering involved in the bridge construction. Few railway bridges of this era are preserved and the fact this this structure, and the creek it crossed, have been buried, means that there is potential to record detail of the engineering and technology in use at the time of its construction.

Group

Transport - Rail

Category

Railway Bridge/ Viaduct