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Railway Culvert
Sydenham Road, ST ALBANS VIC 3037 - Property No 31

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2025 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1997

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

This stone culvert is significant as part of the first Government-built railway line in the colony, the greatest public work in Victoria up to that time. The stonework demonstrates the craftsmanship of stonemasons brought out from England to work on this major undertaking.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Railway Culvert - Physical Description 1
  
  Description
  Finely executed rock-faced bluestone buttresses with girder, carrying the Melbourne and Murray River Railway over the course of a small creek, Jones Creek.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  Railway Culvert - Physical Conditions
  
  Condition/integrity
  Good, although new concrete girders have been set over the original iron girders
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  Railway Culvert - 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: State
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