Black Mountain Railway Station | |
Coordinates: | -30.3096°N 151.6564°W |
Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Main Northern railway, Black Mountain, Armidale Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia |
Beginning Label: | Design period |
Owner: | Transport Asset Holding Entity |
Designation1: | New South Wales State Heritage Register |
Designation1 Offname: | Black Mountain Railway Station |
Designation1 Type: | state heritage (built) |
Designation1 Date: | 2 April 1999 |
Designation1 Number: | 1087 |
Designation1 Free1name: | Type |
Designation1 Free1value: | Railway Platform/ Station |
Designation1 Free2name: | Category |
Designation1 Free2value: | Transport - Rail |
Designation1 Free3name: | Builders |
Black Mountain railway station is a heritage-listed station on a disused section of the Main Northern railway at Black Mountain in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1]
Black Mountain station opened on 19 August 1884 as Boorolong station. It was renamed Black Mountain in 1886.[2] The station closed in 1987.[3]
The station complex is now maintained by a local community group, the Black Mountain Preservation Society.
The brick main station building is of a type 4 standard roadside design with a brick platform, and was completed in 1884. The landscaping around the platform and entrance and the station fences and signs are also heritage-listed.[1]
Black Mountain station group is an excellent intact station from the 1880s with a very good timber residence of unusual design (no longer owned by State Rail). The quality of the buildings marks the importance of the area in the pastoral development of the State and are an important and integral part of the townscape. This site illustrates the confidence in railway construction during the 1880s boom even in remote locations of the State.[1]
Black Mountain 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]