| Physical description: | PRECINCT ELEMENTS
Platform building (1887) (Type 4 - 3rd class)
Lamp Room (1887)
Signal box (1890)
Out-of-Room (aka parcels office, aka Museum Waiting Room) (1887)
Platform 1 (1887, modifications 1926, 1993)
Platform 2 (2001)
Various movable items
Toilet block (c. 1970s)
Platform 2 Platform Shelter (2001)
CONTEXT:
The station is located to the east of the Princes Highway at Albion Park Rail, accessed off the Princes Highway via a road and station car park on the western side of the station. On the eastern side, there is pedestrian access to the station from The Strand and Burroo Street, through a park and across a pedestrian level crossing. The station perimeter is defined by white powder coated aluminium fencing.
PLATFORM BUILDING (1887)
Exterior: A single storey weatherboard building with a corrugated steel gabled roof with skillion corrugated steel platform awning. The roof has two brick chimneys. The awning to the railway (east) side of the building has decorative timber valances and timber posts, and later ceiling with timber battens. The building has two painted brick chimneys. There are some aluminium framed windows, including in the current storeroom. The platform building has a later skillion roofed canopy with weatherboard wall to the west (railway) side, blocked up windows, steps to north and south, modern steel posts to the awning with skillion roof to north side of porch. The building has a brick base on the west (Princes Highway) side.
Interior (Partially accessed 2009): The building originally contained (from south to north) a booking office, general waiting room, ladies room and toilets. It has retained a central waiting room (the original general waiting room), open to the platform, a station masters office and a ladies waiting room. The storeroom retains a chimney breast. There is a modern ticket window, and modern tiles to the entry area, and some modern timber flush doors.
LAMP ROOM (1887)
Exterior: This is a small weatherboard building with corrugated steel skillion roof, located at the southern end of the Platform 1 group. There is a door on the west side (opening into the car park).
Interior: Not accessed 2009.
SIGNAL BOX (1890)
Exterior: The signal box is located between the platform building and the out-of-room, and is joined on either side to these two buildings. It is a weatherboard signal box with a corrugated steel skillion roof.
Interior: carpeted floor, weatherboard walls and ceiling. The interior contains an early staff instrument and signals.
OUT-OF-ROOM (1887)
Exterior: Located at the north end of Platform 1, this is a weatherboard single storey building with a corrugated steel skillion roof. The building features timber tongue & grooved double sliding doors to both the east (platform) and west elevations.
Interior: The Out-of-room interior has been clad in timber veneer and converted to a "Museum Waiting Room" with a gallery of historical photographs framed and hung around the walls (see Movable below).
PLATFORMS
Platform 1 (1887): asphalt surface, brick faces with concrete capping, to central section and street side of platform, open concrete faces to south end.
Platform 2 (2001): asphalt surface, concrete face.
TOILET BLOCK (c. 1970s)
Exterior: This is a small freestanding blond texture brick building at the south end of Platform 1. The building has a flat metal deck roof.
Interior: Not accessed 2009.
PLATFORM 2 PLATFORM SHELTER (2001):
Exterior: This is a modern shelter structure, open on the platform side, with metal mesh side and clear Perspex panel and aluminium framed wall to the rear, with a gabled corrugated iron roof.
Interior: contains two seats and a modern ticket machine.
LANDSCAPE/NATURAL FEATURES
The railway station is located in a parkland setting, with a park on the eastern side of the station and also a park on the western side at the southern end of the car park.
MOVABLE ITEMS
NSW Railway heritage listed sites contain significant collections of stored movable railway heritage, including furniture, signs, operational objects, ex-booking office and ticketing objects, paper records, clocks, memorabilia, indicator boards and artwork. Individually, these objects are important components of the history of each site. Together, they form a large and diverse collection of movable objects across the NSW rail network. Sydney Trains maintains a database of movable heritage. For up-to-date information on all movable heritage items at this site, contact the Sydney Trains heritage team.
Key Items at this station include:
Signal levers and staff instrument in signal box
Station signage, including SRA white line station name signs and blue and yellow platform number signs
Heritage-style lamp posts on platform, car park and in adjacent park
Timber and brick-edged garden beds
Fitted waiting room benches
Objects in out-of-room museum: timber platform luggage trolley with “Dapto” in painted letters, signs, historic prints and photographs, heritage-style garden seats, framed bevelled mirror with “NSWTD” in etched letters, signal telephone, objects in display case, low table with lettering “Albion Park Railway Museum”, brass luggage rack.
Timber framed mirror with etched “NSWTD” in office
Timber noticeboards in ticket office
Pair of galvanised farm gates in yard
Iron rail and timber sleeper retaining wall / loading dock |