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Yarraville Railway Station Complex

Location Anderson Street, YARRAVILLE VIC 3013 - Property No B6261 File Number B6261 Level State

[1/1] B6261 Railway Station Complex

Statement of Significance

The Yarraville railway station complex is of State technical significance and of Regional architectural and historical significance. It is of technical significance at a State level as the only surviving example of multiple sector interlocked wheel-operated railway gates in Victoria. These types of gates were once quite common in Victoria, but are now rare. The Yarraville railway complex is also historically significant at a Regional level for its associations with nationally significant manufacturing works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Williamstown railway corridor. The complex has architectural significance in that it represents a rare collection of railway buildings and works, comprising of a brick station building and platform, a timber station building and platform, signal box, interlocked wheel operated level crossing gates, disused siding gates, station master's residence and the remains of an important public siding with extensive pitched bluestone cartways. The complex has social significance at the Regional level for the role it has played as an entrance to the Yarraville shopping centre and in shaping the suburb's commercial development.
Classified: 12/08/1992
Revised:28/03/1994