FORMER TABILK STATION
MORGAN STREET TABILK, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Tabilk Station was opened on 1 December 1881 to serve local farming areas. A caretaker was in charge by 1903, suggesting the station was not greatly used at this time. An Electric Staff was installed, but was removed periodically, as was the stationmaster, who appears to have been located on and off for the next 50 years. By the 1970s, however, there was no one in charge of the station and it was closed to passengers by September 1978. The points to the goods siding were removed shortly after. The station building was located on the west side of the line.
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FORMER TABILK STATION - History
The North Eastern Railway to Seymour and on to Wodonga, was commenced as an extension to the suburban Essendon line, which was commenced by the private Melbourne to Essendon Railway Company in 1858 (Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division Inc. , 2018). In 1860, the company announced their
intention to extend the line “…to Seymour, on the River Goulburn, passing through Broadmeadows, Donnybrook, Beveridge and Kilmore; and, if carried into effect, will open up the most fertile agricultural country in Victoria, and prove of immense benefit to the pastoral and agricultural interests in this colony” (The Argus, 1860). However, four years later the company had exhausted all of their funds and its lines were later taken over by the Victorian Railways, under the Government of Victoria in 1867 (RBA Architects, 2018). The North Eastern railway line was then constructed by the Victorian Railways Department from Essendon to the south bank of the Goulburn River, two miles from Seymour. By April 1872 regular services had commenced between Melbourne and Seymour (Gould, 1990), however the bridge across the Goulburn was delayed for a
lack of piers and girders (Huddle, 2006). A bill was approved in 1878 to construct the Goulburn Valley Railway from Mangalore Shepparton (Victoria Parliament, 1878). The railway led to the rapid development of the town and region as a food producing area (Shepparton, 2008). Seymour also benefitted from the railway, with 400 people directly employed by the railway occupying the town. Along with their families, their total population or railway people amounted to a third of the population of Seymour (Huddle, 2006). Victorian railways boomed throughout the following four decades, with railways expanding across the state (Museum Victoria, 2012). By the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines including the Toolamba-Echuca line, lines to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite.
While these lines were all later closed, Mooroopna Station remains as a stop for passenger trains operating on the Shepparton Railway Line (Monash University, 2015).
Numerous small structural works were required along the railway to construct the permanent way, drain surrounding gullies and creeks and form crossings. These included standard culvert designs of one, two or three cells, sometimes up to seven. They are of simple arched designs in brick or stone sourced from quarries along
the line, whether bluestone from Malmsbury or Granite from Harcourt (Ward, A.C. & Associates, 1988). Construction of the stations, platforms, good sheds, and office and passenger facilities were all undertaken in the mid to late nineteenth century. Level crossings were another important feature of the railways (The Ballarat Star, 1870).
A number of former stations, stopping places and sidings have existed only temporarily along the line including the dedicated siding for Noorilim homestead (later called Dargalong), ballast quarry sidings south of Mangalore for reconstruction of the North East Railway, and former stations at Arcadia, Wahring, Tabilk and Toolamba.
Tabilk Station was opened on 1 December 1881 to serve local farming areas. A caretaker was in charge by 1903, suggesting the station was not greatly used at this time. An Electric Staff was installed, but was removed periodically, as was the stationmaster, who appears to have been located on and off for the next 50 years. By the 1970s, however, there was no one in charge of the station and it was closed to passengers by September 1978. The points to the goods siding were removed shortly after.
The station building was located on the west side of the line.FORMER TABILK STATION - Interpretation of Site
Tabilk Station was opened on 1 December 1881 to serve local farming areas. A caretaker was in charge by 1903, suggesting the station was not greatly used at this time. An Electric Staff was installed, but was removed periodically, as was the stationmaster, who appears to have been located on and off for the next 50 years. By the 1970s, however, there was no one in charge of the station and it was closed to passengers by September 1978. The points to the goods siding were removed shortly after. The station building was located on the west side of the line.
Heritage Inventory Description
FORMER TABILK STATION - Heritage Inventory Description
The site inspection noted a number of mature peppercorn trees and other shrubs marking the former Tabilk Station ground along with the platform mound. Fence posts, hardstand and scattered bricks and concrete also indicate the general vicinity of the main structures. There are likely to be archaeological remains from the station buildings and ancillary rail installations. Note: No inspection or survey of the site was undertaken during the preparation of the due diligence assessment due to the client not providing permission to enter railway land. As a result the assessment is based on historical sources, aerial photography and viewing the site from adjacent publicly accessible roads
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