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MITCHELL SHIRE COUNCIL

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Attachment No: 2 Heritage Citation Report - Kilmore East Railway

Station

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NAME Kilmore East Railway Station ADDRESS O’Gradys Road, Kilmore East

1939 Station Building on down side platform 1939 Station Building platform view

1873 Goods Shed north view 1873 Goods Shed and Goods Platform

SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL Local PLACE TYPE Individual Place CITATION DATE May 2014 FORMER NAMES Kilmore Railway Station ITEM GROUP Transport - Rail ITEM TYPE Railway Platform/Station Goods Shed HISTORY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT Contextual History On 19 March 1856 a parliamentary act authorised formation of the Railways Department, Initially the Department took over partially completed works of private ventures subsequently letting major contracts for works on the Willliamstown and Bendigo lines, let by November 1865. Purchase of the

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Geelong and Melbourne Railway in 1860 and commencement of a line from Geelong to Ballarat would complete links to Victoria’s key mining centres. Opening of an extension to the Bendigo line linking Bendigo and Echuca in 1864 completed the initial phase of rail construction in the Colony. Railway construction did not resume until the 1870s when new trunk lines including that from Essendon to Wodonga and of a feeder of branch lines were again commenced on a major scale in contrast to the extravagant quality of construction in the first phase of development, works of the 1870s sought economies in track and infrastructure construction. Savings included the use of lighter rails, single track formations with reduced ballast, limited earthworks, cheaper iron and timber bridges and more modest stations. Place History The north eastern railway line to Wodonga was initially completed as far as Seymour, and in keeping with the new economies comprised a single track with passing loops. Whilst the township of Kilmore was located on the Sydney Road, the rail line followed Dry Creek some 3 kilometres to the east of the township. A station was established on the line to serve Kilmore and named after the town when opened with the line in April 1872. In the 1870s the station is recorded as comprising a single platform to the western side of the line with a passing loop to the east of the line. A goods siding on the down side located to the north end ran adjacent to a goods shed and water tower. In 1878 further works comprised a contract let for a timber platform and goods siding for the transshipment of firewood. The additional siding appears to have been located to the east of the passing loop. The same year a contract was let for a passenger station. The 1878 timber station building erected on the down platform replaced four temporary structures. One of these housed a temporary railway refreshment room, which operated at the station from 1873 until those at Seymour station were opened. The present station building dates from 1939 and replaced the 1878 station building. Kilmore station was a staff station and Telegraph Block Post by 1879 and remained a block post after duplication of the line in 1879. In 1888 a branch line was opened from Kilmore Junction to a station in the town and Kilmore was renamed Kilmore East. A small settlement grew up around the station. On 1 October 1888, the station was renamed Kilmore East, as a Kilmore station was constructed within the Kilmore township itself at that time. A ground signal frame was provided in 1890 to work the signals and the station was interlocked in 1899 with a 15 lever rocker frame. This was replaced by a 20 lever Tappet frame in 1914 in conjunction with the provision of a refuge siding. The frame was extended to 25 levers in 1939. In 1976 a large bluestone quarry was developed some 3 kilometres north of the station and a siding was erected and signaling altered to service the transport of stone from the quarry using the siding. Sidings to the eastern side of the up platform were removed in the 1980s enabling later construction of the dual standard gauge lines to that side of the station. The up platform was altered in 2014 involving setting back of the original platform and the down platform was extended at the south end. The above history has been primarily derived from Heritage Impact Report for Proposed Works, Kilmore East Railway Station prepared by Colin Brady Specialist Heritage Consultant for HBO + EMTB, December 2013. DESCRIPTION Physical Description The Kilmore East Railway Station is located on the eastern side of O’Grady’s Road, Kilmore East. The Station Complex comprises a weatherboard station building, up and down platforms, a goods shed with a vaulted roof and a goods loading platform.

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The main station building is located on the down platform and accommodates a ticket office and lobby, central room housing an operating signal frame, public amenities and a platform verandah. It is a timber framed building with substantially weatherboard cladding and corrugated metal roofing to the main building and platform verandah. The main roof is a gable form running parallel with the platform and the verandah has a low pitched skillion form. The timber posts supporting the platform verandah are square in section with square capitals with stop chamfered shafts. The signal frame is housed in a glazed bay projecting onto the platform adjacent to the ticket office at the northern end of the building. Windows are generally timber framed with multiple panes to the sliding sashes of the signal frame room. End windows to the signal frame room have been partly replaced with aluminium glazing. The western elevation of the building (facing the car park) has been extensively reclad in cement sheet with vertical cover battens. A gabled entry porch to the western elevation retains weatherboard cladding and incorporates iron filigree brackets not contemporary with the 1939 date of the building. The porch no longer provides access to the station. Entry to the station is provided through a ticket lobby to the northern end of the building. The lobby incorporates a ticket window to the southern side. The up platform contains a small gable roofed structure comprising a station staff room and open verandah to the northern end. The walls are clad in weatherboard with metal framed windows. This building is a recent construction and does not contribute to the significance of the station complex. The up and down platforms at the station were constructed at different times - the down platform was built in 1872 while the up platform was built in 1886. Originally, both platforms displayed similar construction details despite the difference in age – pressed red brick retaining walls with a bluestone coping to the rail edge. Works undertaken in 2014, involving setting back of the original up (east) platform, altered the original detailing of this platform, which now has a concrete retaining wall. The original bluestone coping was reinstated to the altered platform. The down platform was also extended to the south end in 2014. The extended section of platform has a pre-cast concrete retaining wall and a steel angle edge to the platform. To the north of the station building and to the west of the down platform, is the original 1873 Goods Shed. It is a timber framed building with corrugated iron sheet cladding and a vaulted roof also clad in corrugated iron sheets. The narrow loading platform on the eastern side of the shed is of similar construction to the down platform with bluestone edging over a pressed red brick retaining wall. STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE What is significant? The Kilmore East Railway Station Complex comprising the 1939 weatherboard station building, up and down platforms, corrugated iron clad goods shed with a vaulted roof and a goods loading platform. The later small gable roofed building on the up platform does not contribute to the significance of the place. How is it significant? The Kilmore East Railway Station Complex is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Mitchell. Why is it significant? The Kilmore East Railway Station Complex is historically significant for its demonstration of the construction of the earliest section of the north eastern railway line from Essendon to Wodonga. The Station at Kilmore East (originally known as Kilmore) was officially opened with the line in April 1872. The corrugated iron clad Goods Shed and pressed red brick platforms with bluestone coping are elements demonstrating the 1870s construction of a station at Kilmore East. The form of the station and related structures records the economies in construction of rail transport infrastructure introduced in the 1870s following the excessive construction costs during the initial phase of rail development in Victoria beginning in the gold rush of the 1850s. The 1939 weatherboard Station Building replaced an 1878 building in the same location and demonstrates the upgrading of the station at that time to accommodate changing operational needs. The corrugated iron Goods Shed with vaulted roof and

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the down side platform and goods platform with original red pressed brick and bluestone coping are rare surviving examples of their types. (Criteria A & B) The Kilmore East Railway Station Complex is aesthetically significant for demonstrating principle characteristics and layout of a station complex dating from the late 19

th century with changes dating

up to the mid 20th century. Particular characteristics of note include the distinctive 1873 Goods Shed

with its vaulted roof and corrugated iron sheet cladding, original platform detailing with pressed red brick retaining walls and bluestone coping stones and 1939 weatherboard Station Building with its gable roof form, ticket office lobby, skillion verandah to the platform and glazed bay on the platform elevation housing the signal frame. (Criterion D)