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FORMER TOOLAMBA RAILWAY STATION
Location1,3,5,7,9,11 LONDREGAN LANE TOOLAMBA, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
File NumberHE/09/3010-06LevelHeritage Inventory Site |
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The water tank and the remnant railway infrastructure at the Toolamba Railway Station precinct are of significance. Toolamba Station is of archaeological significance at the local level for its potential to provide information on the character of railway facilities, signalling, safe-working systems and passenger services of a moderately important
country railway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Toolamba Station is located off Wren Street Toolamba. It retains evidence of the locomotive water supply, former platform, safe working systems. remnant railway infrastructure, and other archaeological features. The station was closed in 1987 and the station buildings demolished shortly after.
Updated 08/08/2024
country railway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Toolamba Station is located off Wren Street Toolamba. It retains evidence of the locomotive water supply, former platform, safe working systems. remnant railway infrastructure, and other archaeological features. The station was closed in 1987 and the station buildings demolished shortly after.
Updated 08/08/2024
How is it significant?
It is of local historic, technical, archaeological and aesthetic cultural heritage significance to the City of Greater Shepparton.
Updated 08/08/2024
Updated 08/08/2024
Why is it significant?
It is of historic and technical significance as a surviving element of the Toolamba railway infrastructure. There is little tangible physical fabric retained from this period of transport heritage in Toolamba and region (HERCON criteria A, B, F). The water tank is of aesthetic significance as it is a landmark feature in Toolamba (HERCON criterion D).
Toolamba Station is of archaeological significance at the local level for its potential to provide information on the character of railway facilities, signalling, safe-working systems and passenger services of a moderately important country railway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Updated 08/08/2024
Toolamba Station is of archaeological significance at the local level for its potential to provide information on the character of railway facilities, signalling, safe-working systems and passenger services of a moderately important country railway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Updated 08/08/2024
Group
Transport - Rail
Category
Railway