Rylstone railway station, New South Wales

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Rylstone railway station
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Rylstone station in 2011
LocationWallerawang–Gwabegar railway, Rylstone, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates 32°47′47″S149°58′31″E / 32.7964°S 149.9753°E / -32.7964; 149.9753
Owner Transport Asset Holding Entity
Official nameRylstone Railway Station and yard group
Typestate heritage (complex / group)
Designated2 April 1999
Reference no.1240
TypeRailway Platform / Station
CategoryTransport – Rail
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Location of Rylstone railway station in New South Wales

Rylstone railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station on the Gwabegar railway line at Rylstone, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. Although it closed to regular passenger services in 1985, it is planned to restore a tourist service between Kandos and Rylstone in late 2018. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. [1]

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History

Rylstone railway station opened on 9 June 1884 with the extension of the railway from Capertee. [2] [3]

The rail passenger service ceased on 2 December 1985. It is not known when the station was formally closed. [2] Freight services beyond Kandos ceased in 1992. [4] [2]

After the station's closure, it was used as a craft store and then later for storage. [2]

The first passenger service in over twenty years arrived at Rylstone in March 2016 as an initial one-off tourist service for the Rylstone Show. [5] In October 2017, the state government pledged $1.1 million to reinstate the rail link between Kandos and Rylstone following an effort by the Kandos Museum and Lithgow State Mines Railway to form a tourist rail precinct. The works were expected to be complete by June 2018. [6] The Kandos-Rylstone Rail Heritage Precinct group have leased the Kandos railway station and are aiming to establish a regular tourist service between Kandos and Rylstone by the end of 2018. [7] Restoration works on what will become the group's regular rolling stock continued as of July 2018, with the hope of the works being completed "within a few months". [8]

Description

The station complex consists of a timber station building of a type 4 standard roadside design, completed in 1884, along with a platform faced in pre-cast concrete and a corrugated iron goods shed in a side shed design with a 72' x 22' crane. It also includes a dock platform, jib crane and loading bank. The trees in the forecourt and station area are also included in the heritage listing. [1]

Heritage listing

Rylstone station group is a good late Victorian station complex situated in an important historic town. The station retains its setting with forecourt and fencing in the close to original form. The station building is a superb example of a timber country wayside station retaining original detailing, it is typical of many similar buildings constructed during the 1870s and 1880s, few of which survive. The brick residences (now sold) constructed at the same time as the station are in close to original condition and with the other buildings complete the group. [1]

Rylstone railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria. [1]

The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Rylstone Railway Station and yard group". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Department of Planning & Environment. H01240. Retrieved 2 June 2018. CC BY icon.svg Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence .
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Rylstone Railway Precinct". State Heritage Inventory. Office of Environment and Heritage. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "OPENING OF LINE TO RYLSTONE". The Daily Telegraph . No. 1533. New South Wales, Australia. 6 June 1884. p. 6. Retrieved 21 July 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Railways, Capertee, Gulgong, Mudgee". Mudgee District History. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Rylstone rail not just a one-hit-wonder?". Blue Mountains Gazette. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "All-aboard the region's new $1.1M rail". Lithgow Mercury. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "Kandos-Rylstone Rail group looking down the track to a big 2018". Lithgow Mercury. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Kandos-Rylstone Rail Heritage reps check on rail car resto". Mudgee Guardian. 3 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

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