The Lilydale Station Goods Shed, at 103 Main Street, Lilydale, is significant. Specifically, the form, scale and materiality of the 1883 Victorian Railways erected goods shed is of local significance. Later alterations and additions are not significant.

Lilydale Railway Station Goods Shed is of local historical and rarity significance to the township of Lilydale and Yarra Ranges Council more broadly.

 

Lilydale Railway Station Goods Shed is historically significant to the township of Lilydale as a surviving example of railway infrastructure erected by the Victorian Railways in the late nineteenth century following the rapid expansion of the state’s railway system between 1879 and 1907. It also has historical value as one of the only surviving remnants of the original 1880s Lilydale Railway Station complex that linked Lilydale to Melbourne, and thus forms a tangible link to the period of local rail history. Lastly, as evidence of a main terminus of an important railway network, the Lilydale Railway Station Goods Shed serves to illustrate the town’s past commercial activity associated with railway transport.

 

Lilydale Railway Station Goods Shed is rare as the only surviving example in the Yarra Ranges Shire, and one of the few surviving examples in the state of Victoria, of a goods shed erected by the Victorian Railways between 1879 and 1907.