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FORMER RAYWOOD RAILWAY STATION

Location 3-7 INGLEWOOD ROAD RAYWOOD, GREATER BENDIGO CITY Level Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

The Raywood station site is of local archaeological and historical significance as a representative early country railway station. It has potential to reveal details of the period of expansion of railway facilities in the later nineteenth century under the Octopus Acts, when political patronage saw numerous new lines constructed, not always in viable routes. Extensive remains of both structural features and archaeological deposits can demonstrate the process of operation of railways in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in particular the specific measures for providing water for steam locomotives.

Raywood station served a minor outlier of the Bendigo goldfields along with an agricultural catchment. As such any archaeological deposits may give insight into the character of the mixed rural economy which is a subject with little archaeological research.

Group

Transport - Rail

Category

Station Building