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Jerilderie railway station
Summary
The Jerilderie railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station located on the now closed Tocumwal line at Nowranie Street, Jerilderie, in the Murrumbidgee Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The former station was designed by John Whitton and built from 1884 to 1885 by Charles Hardy. It is also known as Jerilderie Railway Station Group. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 17 April 2003.
The Jerilderie Railway Station precinct and buildings was designed by John Whitton, Engineer in Chief of the NSW railways from 1856-1888. Whitton designed much of extant NSW railways infrastructure including station buildings. His particular design ethos has created a genre of railway station and station master's house designs that are recognisable and distinctive throughout NSW.
The Station and Station Master's Residence buildings are significant in a small relatively isolated rural town and it illustrates the importance the railways anticipated having in their development of Jerilderie area and in wresting trade away from Victoria. The diminishment of railway activity brought about by improved roads and road transport is manifested by the decay and removal of infrastructure along the railway corridors and in the precinct of Jerilderie Station arrangement.
Located from Central Sydney, the Jerilderie Station Complex opened on 16 September 1884 and was used continuously as a major transport centre for Jerilderie until 6 February 1987. The station building is now used as a residence.
Jerilderie Railway precinct buildings are important as part of the body of works Charles Hardy a pre-eminent builder of Wagga Wagga, trained in London, arrived in Melbourne in 1854, aged 21, and Wagga Wagga in 1862, with Thomas Hodson with whom he formed a partnership until 1877 when Hodson went to live in Sydney. Hardy continued as Charles Hardy & Co a firm that by the 1970s employed 250 people.
Charles Hardy and his workers constructed the buildings at Jerilderie in 1884.
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