FORMER PARWAN RAILWAY STATION

The Parwan Railway Station Site opened in 1886, the complex comprised a three-road yard, a signal box, a shelter shed, a goods shed, weighbridge, sheep race and goods yard. A chaff mill and ‘A few rustic houses” were also present in proximity to the station. 

 

The station mainly facilitated the transportation of grain, a siding was added in 1923 for this specific purpose. A new station building was constructed in 1948 and closed in the 1980s.  

The site currently comprises an open paddock and a modern corrugated iron structure, the stie has two additional concrete slabs and surface scatters of potential nineteenth century artefacts and building materials. The site is likely to contain archaeological features, deposits and artefacts associated with the complex, dating from the late 19th century. 

The site is of local historical and local archaeological significance. 

Parwan Station is historically significant 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.