Maryborough Station, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia

After receiving recent State funding from Heritage Victoria in 2010 the magnificent station underwent a three‐year three-stage restoration of the façade, the slate roof and clock tower and the glazed lantern covering the main carriageway platform completed in 2012. The magnificently restored Maryborough Station is a tribute to the Victorian Railways, Architectural Works Department and completed in 1890. It is an outstanding example to the school of Victorian railway architecture developing a regional rather than national or international modern style and one of the finest examples of a building that belongs in its setting. The funds were received for the clock and illuminated in 1917.

The Station displays many hallmarks of the Anglo‐Dutch style which is most distinctive at the roofline and is enlivened by an asymmetrically placed clock tower. The outside roof consists of different styles of Dutch gable of various scales with tall faceted partly rendered chimneys. Durring the 1970’s much of the original facade ornamentation, the orbs, pedestals and ball-caps were sadly removed. The chimneys crowns had been removed but were these were carefully re-cast as part of Heritage Victoria restoration programme. The window and door facings and string-courses were re-rendered using Adelaide Brightonlite oxide cement render. Many locals were unhappy with its look, however, for the elderly who could remember how the station looked originally, applauded it’s face-lift and remarked “this is how it was meant to be”

An outstanding feature of Maryborough Station is the very long platform covered by a hipped roof verandah supporting a glazed lantern at the apex. This is said to be the longest single platform outside the Melbourne region and measures 1010 meters including the rail motor sidings. The verandah ridge has segmented glass panels which form the glazed lantern. The entire assembly was removed and carefully refurbished. The cantilevered wrought-iron verandah roof structure has cast‐iron ribbed columns as concealed down pipes. Today, Maryborough Station operates an antiques emporium, a fully licensed restaurant in the grand dining hall and VLine post and freight services for passenger and goods trains.