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MINYIP RAILWAY STATION

Location STATION STREET MINYIP, YARRIAMBIACK SHIRE File Number FOL/15/39021 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Minyip Railway Station was constructed in 1889 by H Honour on the Murtoa-Warracknabeal line for the Victorian Railways. It is a classically designed, timber station building with a hipped roof and a standard cast and wrought iron platform verandah. It features a decorated window hood and gablet to its roadside elevation. The van goods shed, cart dock, lamp room, toilet, goods shed & associated platform and crane have all been removed. The station building was closed and remains vacant.

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

Why is it significant?
Minyip Railway Station is architecturally significant as a representative example of the 'Minyip' style of station buildings, a small group of richly decorated, timber station buildings built during the railway expansion of the 1880s. The design is a version of the standard plan for the major stylistic groups of the day, imitating the more prestigious brick buildings of the same form through its use of classical detailing and timber construction.

Minyip Railway Station is historically significant as an important and intact example of station building design that arose from the 'Octopus Act' of 1884.