NAGAMBIE RAILWAY STATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX
1-5 BALLANTYNES ROAD NAGAMBIE, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Nagambie Railway Station site is of local historical significance as evidence of the development of an extensive heavy rail transport system in Victoria in the later nineteenth century. The location of the station and extent of the station yards demonstrates the former importance of rail transport in rural communities.
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NAGAMBIE RAILWAY STATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX - History
In 1865 land was opened up for selection in Nagambie, for farming, vine and fruit growing (Wilson & Rush, 1951). By 1877, 76 buildings had been constructed within allotments proclaimed as the township of Nagambie. These included churches, banks, flour mills, trade stores, a post, police court, hotels, and newspaper printers. The railway was completed through Nagambie by 1880 (Victorian Places, 2018). The Nagambie district has predominantly remained agricultural and pastoral with wheat farming and sheep raising since then (du Cros & Watt, 1993). Nagambie Station was opened in January 1880 to serve the local farming community and workers on the Goulburn Weir. The Stationmaster was removed by September 1979 and a caretaker was put in charge. An attractive timber station building was provided in the original scheme but burnt down in 1991.NAGAMBIE RAILWAY STATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX - Interpretation of Site
Evidence of the former configuration of the railway yards can be seen in the extensive area of ballast and remnants of rail and sleepers. Part of the Goods Platform shows the separate arrangements for domestic freight east of the station compared with the sidings for the silos on the east side of the main tracks. The site of the former Stationmasters house to the south can be discerned from a levelled area and scatters of domestic artefacts immediately north west of the Ballantyne’s Road level crossing. The position of the former station building can be discerned on the station platform, and is likely to retain archaeological features. The platform edge has been reconstructed in steel girder and precast concrete panels, but is likely to retain some of the original brick structure beneath earth fill.
Heritage Inventory Description
NAGAMBIE RAILWAY STATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX - Heritage Inventory Description
Surviving features include the station platform, an associated goods platform, planted trees, levelled areas where former departmental residence stood to the south of the station building, later 20th century departmental residences adjacent to the station car park and concrete footings from a storage shed to the east. Modern silos and storage sheds are also located on the east side of the tracks. Nagambie Railway Station yard contains a still operating passenger platform and a small discontinued goods platform immediately to its east. There are a number of former sidings to the east, including the line which served the silos. There are likely to be buried foundations from the former station buildings, Departmental Residences, outbuildings and signal and points installations. Stumps from the stationmaster house are evident as are bricks from the chimneys of this and other structures. Some scattered glass and ceramic fragments may be remains of domestic refuse from the railway buildings.
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