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PIRRON YALLOCK RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

Location 2 STATION ROAD PIRRON YALLOCK, COLAC OTWAY SHIRE File Number 606244 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Pirron Yallock Railway Station Complex was constructed in 1894 by F Holyoake on the Camperdown-Geelong Line, for the Victorian Railways. It consists of a small timber station building, which is symmetrical in form. It features distinctive scalloped weatherboards to the facades, and gambrel roofs balancing the central waiting area, which is protected by extended eaves carried on decorated brackets. The goods shed, platforms, van goods shed and cart dock have all been removed, while the water tower remains. The station has been closed and the station building has been seriously vandalised.

How is it significant?
Pirron Yallock Railway Station Complex is historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria

Why is it significant?
The Pirron Yallock Railway Station building is architecturally significant as a unique and essentially intact (albeit damaged) timber station building employing the gambrel roof form. It serves as a key contributor to the character of the former Port Fairy railway line. Pirron Yallock Railway Station building is also significant as a unique example of the 'Ringwood' style of station buildings, serving as a key contributor to the development of this typological group. (Beeston, 1995)

Pirron Yallock Railway Station is historically significant as an example of a less elaborate station built by the Railways Department during the economic depression of the 1890s.
The water tower is historically significant for its associations with the former steam railway era. (Beeston, 1995)