North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)

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STATION ROAD North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)

(Formerly listed under North Read)

28.4.52.

GV II* Railway station, now museum. Opened 1842, replacing the 1833 passenger station that was sited just to the east, by John Harris for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, side wings added 1850s.

Long front building having two storey, six window centre with a loggia whose seven cast iron columns support a bracketed timber cornice. Long, single-storey side wings of differing lenth and irregular fenestration. Walls now roughcast. Slated roofs with eaves soffits and chimney stacks of conjoined hexagonal ashlar shafts at ends of centre block; similar paired or single shafts to wings. Plain, timber-roofed train shed at rear in two unequal spans with row of cast iron columns. Short flanking sheds with cast iron supports to lean-to roofs against the front building. Good example of early, straight forward railway station. Now in use as a railway museum.

Graded for its association with the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened 1825, which was highly influential both nationally and internationally for the development of railways

Listing NGR: NZ2891015712