The Pressed Metal Ceiling of the Leongatha Railway Station Loby – Long Street, Leongatha

            The first Leongatha Railway Station, located on Long Street, was built of wood and opened in 1891.  The 1910 Queen Anne style railway station that stands today is the second largest station building on the South Eastern Railway after the much larger and grander Korumburra Railway Station. 

Built of red brick, the Leongatha Railway Station comprises of a medium-sized single storey station building, not dissimilar to that of many country town railway stations built in Britain at the time.  The Queen Anne style building features stuccoed banding, terra cotta tiled hip and gable roof with ridge cresting, dormer windows, tall chimneys with Art Nouveau detailing, a cantilevered platform verandah and a pedimented entrance to the lobby which features a pressed metal ceiling. 

The station is enhanced by the informal park-like setting surrounding it, which is unique within the Shire.  Plane Trees have been planted along one side of Long Street, however the most dominant landscape element in this area are the trees in the station reserve, which include mature pine and planes, as well as several varieties of Eucalypt. The trees in the station reserve are an important landscape element that contributes to the amenity and character not only of this area, but also to Leongatha as a whole.  This parkland also used to house the original Leongatha Tennis Club, Bowling Club and Croquet Club.

Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region.   The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets.  First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway.  The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town.  The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.

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Taken on: January 10, 2013

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