STRZELECKI RAILWAY STATION TURNTABLE

The former Strzelecki Railway turntable site, on private land at 2 Wild Dog Road, Strzelecki, constructed in 1922, is significant. The turntable itself is no longer extant but the site consists of a flat circular feature approximately 53 feet in diameter (16 metres) that is partially defined by low concrete mass walls. There are remnants of the shallow cutting that indicate the railway line that connected to the turntable. Any remnant plantings of wild dog rose, ivy and other exotic shrubs and plants in the vicinity of this feature should be retained as indications of the original formal plantings. 
Non-original alterations to the site are not significant.

The site of the Strzelecki Railway Station turntable is of local historic and scientific significance to the South Gippsland Shire. The site is also a rare surviving feature of the Koo Wee Rup-Strzelecki railway.

Historically, the Strzelecki railway turntable site and the associated surviving embankments, cuttings and timber bridges represent the former Koo Wee Rup to Strzelecki railway line within the South Gippsland Shire. The other tangible elements of this railway line, the last to be constructed in the Shire, were progressively removed between 1930 and 1959. This turntable site demonstrates the efforts of united resident groups to improve the transport links in this area of the Shire in the early 20 th Century in response to the difficulty of movement and transportation in this region before and during the growth of automobiles (Criterion H). 
The turntable site is rare as one of the few remaining physical features associated with the Koo Wee Rup to Strzelecki railway line within the South Gippsland Shire. The rest of the features of the railway, including the Triholm and Strzelecki railway stations (Poowong East and Strzelecki respectively), has been removed since the railway closure in 1959 (Criterion B). 
Scientifically, the Strzelecki turntable site has the potential to yield information through archaeological investigations regarding the historic establishment, development, use and disuse of this railway station and the associated railway line. This may also yield information about the community and movement in the area before and after the establishment of the railway (Criterion C).