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Westrail Railway Road Workshops

Author

City of Bunbury

Place Number

11877
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Location

Wollaston St NW Cnr Casuarina Dv Bunbury

Location Details

Other Name(s)

Old Bus Shed

Local Government

Bunbury

Region

South West

Construction Date

Constructed from 1947

Demolition Year

2006

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents More information
Heritage List Adopted 15 Apr 2003

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management More information
Category Description
Municipal Inventory Adopted 04 Sep 2001

Heritage Council
Municipal Inventory Adopted 31 Jul 1996 Historic Site

Historic Site

Historic Site

Statement of Significance

DEMOLISHED
The Railway Road Workshops represent an era when trains were widely used as an economic and popular mode of moving goods and people. The workshops were built to service the trains. In the post World-War II period, bus services were introduced to replace passenger trains and the workshops were then used to service the buses.

Physical Description

DEMOLISHED

History

Government Railway Road Workshops were built c 1947. Here, Government Railway employees maintained and serviced buses and railway road vehicles that operated throughout the South West.

The Workshops were built close to the railway marshalling yards complex, which occupied a large area of land on the eastern fringe of the central business district.

By the 1950s, Bunbury’s population was growing and the railway system was proving inadequate. By 1948, the Government run bus service was proving much more successful than the dated railway system.

The railway road vehicles transported ilmenite from the mineral sands mines to storage areas at the Port of Bunbury for a time.

In 2001, the place was being used for commercial purposes. By this time, it had been partially demolished to make way for street realignment in the area (the original street pattern was at 45 degrees to the present north south pattern). By 2006, the workshops had been demolished.

Condition

DEMOLISHED

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use Transport\Communications Rail: Other
Present Use COMMERCIAL Shopping Complex

Architectural Styles

Style
Other Style

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall BRICK Common Brick
Roof ASBESTOS Fibrous Cement, corrugated

Creation Date

08 Oct 2002

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

23 Jan 2018

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