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Sydenham Railway Station
Keilor Melton Road, SYDENHAM VIC 3037 - Property No 49

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1813a - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1999

1813b - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1999

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

This railway station is a significant local landmark, at an important road and rail junction, formerly known as 'Keilor Road' and serving a railway line of great historical importance as the first Government-built railway line in Victoria. The present station played a major role in the life of the Closer Settlement farming families in the early years of this century and in the local economy. It is the oldest surviving railway station building in the City of Brimbank.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Sydenham Railway Station - Physical Description 1
  
  Description
  This is typical of the gabled timber type of Victorian Railways station buildings, relatively small in consequence of the past small rural population it served. The building features a trussed canopy extending a short distance along the platform with the renewed colours Two Schinus molle var. areira and two (Olea sp.) olive trees are in the road reserve just north of the station, on the south side of the Keilor-Melton Road.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  Sydenham Railway Station - Physical Conditions
  
  Condition/integrity
  Good
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  Sydenham Railway Station - Historical Australian Themes
  
  3 Developing local, regional and national economies
  3.8 Moving goods and people
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study
  
  Author: G. Vines
  Year: 2000
  Grading: Local
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- Callitris glaucophylla
  
  National Trust
- Railway Culvert
  
  Brimbank City
- Sydenham Memorial Gateway
  
  Vic. War Heritage Inventory
- 'GUNYAH', FIRST CANTERBURY TROOP SCOUT HALL & CAMBERWELL NORTH GUIDE HALL
  
  Boroondara City
- 1) ELTHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2) PEPPERCORN TREE, 3) MATURE EXOTIC PLANTING AND 4) WHEEL RIM (TYRING) TOOL IN THE GROUNDS
  
  Nillumbik Shire
- 10 Down Street
  
  Yarra City