Sydney Regent Street Station

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The Station Regent Street ( English Regent Street Railway Station and Regent Street ) was a station of Rookwood-Cemetery-railway line in Sydney , from the funeral trains to Rookwood Cemetery drove off, the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere with more than a million graves. It later became part of the Sydney Yard freight yard .

The decorative building is on the west side of the Sydney Yard , not far from Sydney Central Station and Railway Square .

history

The station was built as part of the Rookwood Cemetery Railway Line and completed on March 22, 1869, but had been in operation since January 1, 1869. It was officially opened on June 29, 1869 as Mortuary (German: Leichenhalle ). The name was later changed to Regent Street , after the street the building is on. At times, the station was also known as Mortuary Station (German: Leichenhallen-Bahnhof ) or Necropolis Receiving Station (German: Totenstadt- Receiving Station ). Trains also ran from him to Woronora General Cemetery in Sutherland , south of Sydney, and to Sandgate Cemetery in Newcastle .

The buildings of the Regent Station and Receiving-house station (German: Reception station ) at Rookwood Cemetery were greeted by James Barnet , designed the Government architect of New South Wales, which was based stylistically on the Venetian Gothic of the 13th century. The ornate sculptures , including angels, putti and gargoyles , are mainly by the sculptors Thomas Ducket and Henry Apperly . Although both buildings were intended to be reminiscent of churches in terms of their construction and symbolic decoration, they were never used for worship purposes.

From March 14, 1938, the platform was used for loading dogs and horses, and from February 1950 as a parcel station. The railway authority ( State Rail Authority ) of New South Wales had the building in 1981 for about 600,000 AUD restored after the National Trust of Australia included it in its list of monuments and historic preservation authorities of Australia and New South Wales, it had declared a national monument. On April 21, 1985 the building was reopened by Neville Wran , Prime Minister of New South Wales.

From 1986 to 1989 the pancake restaurant Magic Mortuary (German: Leichenhallenzauber ) was located in the building , and its guests sat in railroad cars . After that, the station was occasionally used for the departure of special trains and for exhibitions and was rented out as an event room.

gallery

  • Open part of the platform with platform hall

  • Platform inside the building

  • Details of the stone carvings inside the building

  • Stone carvings on the entrance hall

  • View of the tracks of the freight yard from inside the building

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ friendsofrookwoodinc.org.au : Friends of Rookwood , in English, accessed August 24, 2011
  2. ^ Singleton, CC (1989): The Rookwood Cemetery Line in The Sleeping City: The Story of Rookwood , Society of Australian Genealogists, NSW.
  3. ^ A b State Rail Authority of New South Wales Archives Section, How & Why of Station Names: meanings and origins ... , 2nd edition, 1982, State Rail Authority of New South Wales.
  4. ↑ a b c d Oakes, J. (2002): From Central Sydney in Australian Railway Historical Society , pp. 58-77
  5. ↑ Singleton, (1989)
  6. ^ Buckle, EG (1987): A station of the cross: All Saints Anglican Church, Ainslie, Canberra , The Church.

Coordinates: 33 ° 53 ′ 12.7 ″  S , 151 ° 12 ′ 8.6 ″  E