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FORMER POMBORNEIT RAILWAY STATION
80-70 KOALLAH-POMBORNEIT ROAD POMBORNEIT, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
FORMER POMBORNEIT RAILWAY STATION
80-70 KOALLAH-POMBORNEIT ROAD POMBORNEIT, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Former Pomborneit Railway Station site meets the definition of archaeological site under the Heritage Act, as a site that is likely to contain artefacts, deposits or features 75 or more years old, that would provide information relation to the former use of the site, that requires archaeological methods to reveal such information. There are surface features related to former structures at the site including platform mound with drystone retaining wall and remains of a former structure in the centre. There is also evidence that there would potentially be remaining artefacts, indicated by the bottle identified within the northern portion of the drystone wall.
How is it significant?
The site is of local historical and archaeological significance.
Why is it significant?
The site is of local historical significance as a representation of an early small Victorian railway station, particularly related to the operation of goods transportation.
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FORMER POMBORNEIT RAILWAY STATION - History
The line between Colac and Camperdown opened 2 July 1883 and Pomborneit was a minor station. From 1928, the station master was removed and it was changed to an intermediate electric staff station in 1929. It became an alternate station that could be switched in only when Pirron Yallock or Stoneyford were not. From 1968, it started to have its number 2 road, signals and plunger lock abolished. It was closed on 14 August 1978 (Wong 2018). In keeping with a wider program of replacing gates with cattle pits at over 200 level crossings, Pomborneit’s gatekeeper cottage (no. 68) was removed in 1899 (Ward 2019, p. 291). Ward notes that the cottage was re-erected in Pomborneit, but it is unclear whether this was within another portion of the station complex or the wider township.FORMER POMBORNEIT RAILWAY STATION - Interpretation of Site
The low resolution of the 1946 aerial image suggests there is one structure on the southwestern side of the railway line. Recent aerial imagery (accessed on Google Earth) shows that this location no longer contains extant structures but suggests some possible ground disturbance that may relate to former footings remaining within the project area.
Heritage Inventory Description
FORMER POMBORNEIT RAILWAY STATION - Heritage Inventory Description
A mounded platform measuring approximately 125m in length runs to the northeast of the single railway track. The northernmost portion of the platform mound has a drystone wall supporting the northeastern face for approximately 70m. A glass bottle was noted amongst the drystone wall at the northernmost end of the mounded platform, within the rail corridor. It appeared likely to be a late 19th century bottle however could only be viewed from a distance from the other side of the paddock fence. A concrete slab suspended on metal post foundations with wooden sleeper supports is located near the centre of the platform mound, partially hidden beneath a tree. The width of the platform mound is approximately 5m at the northern end; there the drystone wall acts as a retaining wall. The width of the platform mound increases to approximately 17m in the southern half and ramps down at a more gradual approximately 30 degree angle to meet the ground level of the surrounding paddock. A lower area with patches of a remnant gravel surface indicates the location of the former goods yard on the southwest side of the track. A pile of concrete slabs, some affixed together with a bitumen-like aggregate, suggests that a structure or possible raised platform used to exist on this side of the track, however no other remains of a building were apparent during the survey.
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