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MANANGATANG RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

Location 70 WATTLE STREET MANANGATANG, SWAN HILL RURAL CITY File Number 603353 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Manangatang Railway Station Complex was built in 1916 by the Victorian Railways on the Robinvale-Quambatook line. It comprises a standard, gable roofed, timber station building with platform verandah, designed in modular form with an office, former general and ladies' waiting rooms, and toilets (removed). A corrugated iron clad goods shed adjoins. The station building is currently not in use.

How is it significant?
The Manangatang Railway Station Complex is historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
Manangatang Railway Station Complex is architecturally significant as the first of a series of thirty-seven timber stations built in Victoria in the early years of the twentieth century. Known as the 'Manangatang Style', these stations, being of a rectangular plan, were designed to allow for future extension along the main axis.

Manangatang Railway Station is historically significant as an example of a station built for the extension of the railway network into the Mallee and Wimmera regions.