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single track to double track operation in 1915 with addition of a second platform and more complex signalling arrangements. It exhibits a confidence in railway building and its importance in the development of the country by the scale of the buildings, particularly the station master's residence. It presents as a reasonably intact site with all of the major elements still evident. The original station building was an early prototype of standardised design in station buildings.
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Gunning station group is one of the best surviving examples of a small late Victorian country station complex with elements from the opening of the line in 1875 (when it was terminus for a year) through to 1913, when the last building on the site was added. It clearly demonstrates the changes from
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The line from Goulburn to Yass was contracted to be completed by 31 December 1875 however, "as soon as the line was sufficiently advanced, arrangements could be made to open it to Gunning". As a result, Gunning station officially opened on 9 November 1875 (however, freight traffic commenced
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in 1999 having satisfied the criterion: "The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales." It was assessed as historically, scientifically, architecturally and socially rare.
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The complex comprises a series of station buildings including a type 4, standard roadside station, erected in 1875; a type 11, station building, duplication, erected in 1913; a type 3 signal box, with a timber
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published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under
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on 3 July 1876. A second platform was added in 1913 when the line was duplicated.
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Stations in (parentheses) are uncommon stops for the listed service
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Gunning served as the terminus until the line was extended to
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Gunning is served daily by an each-way Sydney–Melbourne
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Supplement to the New South Wales Government Gazette
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Services to Sydney Central, Griffith & Melbourne
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Gunning
34°46′47″S 149°15′40″E / 34.7797°S 149.2610°E / -34.7797; 149.2610
Transport Asset Holding Entity
NSW TrainLink
Main Southern
Central
GNI

NSW TrainLink
Yass Junction
Griffith
NSW TrainLink Southern Line
Goulburn
Sydney
Yass Junction
Melbourne
NSW TrainLink Southern Line
NSW Main line
Oolong
Albury
Main Southern Line
Fish River
Sydney
New South Wales Heritage Register
heritage-listed
railway station
Main Southern line
Upper Lachlan Shire
New South Wales

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