The Korumburra Railway Station - Station Street, Korumburra

            The Korumburra Railway Station complex was constructed in what was subsequently christened, Station Street, by G. Vincent in 1907 on the Melbourne-Port Albert Line for the Victorian Railways. 

Designed by architect Charles Norman, the complex comprises of a large predominantly single storey brick station building with an upper level residence. The grand red brick Federation Queen Anne style building features stuccoed banding, terra cotta tiled hip and gable roof with ridge cresting, dormer windows, cantilevered platform verandah and a pedimented entrance to the lobby.  No expense was spared on the décor inside the railway station’s public rooms which feature elegant fireplaces in the restaurant, waiting rooms and railway master’s office and waiting room.  All these rooms also feature Art Nouveau pressed metal detailing inlaid into the wood panels around the dados.  A wooden fire surround can be found in the station master’s waiting room, whilst grander ones featuring mirrors and pressed metal panels may be found in the railway restaurant and waiting room.  It is however the ceilings of these rooms which are perhaps their most breathtaking feature.  Vaulted and arched, all are completed using Art Nouveau pressed metal and the light well in the restaurant is complimented with its original mirrors to help make the room more light filled.  All the interiors have been lovingly restored from years of neglect by a small but dedicated group of local historical and railway enthusiasts.  Several false ceilings installed in the 1960s and 1970s to lower heating costs revealed these magnificent features.  Other structures in the complex include the corrugated iron clad goods shed, the brick pedestrian subway and the up side building.

The Korumburra Railway Station complex is historically significant as an important element of the Great Southern Railway and for its role as a marshalling point for goods trains that faced steep descents in both directions, as the junction for lines from local coal mines and as the starting point for other branch services. In a local sense, it demonstrates the early significance of Korumburra that, at the time, was the largest and most important town in the Shire of Gippsland.  Aesthetically, it is the most outstanding station building and the largest complex in the Shire and demonstrates the importance of Korumburra as the major station on the South Eastern Railway. It is a significant and a rare example of a station building in Federation Queen Anne style. Socially, it played an important role in the development of the Korumburra community and is an important part of the identity of the town. The Korumburra Railway Station complex is also included on the Victorian Heritage Register.  

Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.  Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people.  Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming.  Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area.  The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress.  The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891.  Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.

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Taken on: January 8, 2013

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