Blaxland Train Station - Blaxland, NSW, Australia
S 33° 44.635 E 150° 36.600
56H E 278603 N 6263671
On the Western line, by the township of Blaxland, in the Blue Mountains.
Waymark Code: WMXX0Q
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 03/10/2018
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From the NSW Environment & Heritage website:
"Constructed of face brick with corrugated metal gabled roof extending as awning to both platforms, the Blaxland Station Building is an early phase 'type 11' island building in standard Federation style design. Distinctive features are polychromatic face brickwork with rendered and moulded two rows of string courses to both rail elevations, timber framed windows and doors with contrasting decorative rendered trims and sills, standard iron brackets over decorative corbels supporting ample platform awnings, fretted timber work to both ends of awnings and gable ends, timber finials to gable apex, tall corbelled chimneys with terracotta pots, timber framed double-hung windows with multi-paned and coloured upper sashes and toughened glass bottom sashes, and timber door openings with multi-paned fanlights with coloured glazing." (
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Originally opened in July 1867 - as Wascoes (from John Outrim Wascoe, the licensee of the second Pilgrim Inn), it was renamed "Blaxland" in April 1879. (
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Visited: 1147, Sunday, 16 July, 2017