York railway station is a disused station on the Eastern Railway in

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. It is located in the town of

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History

The York station opened on 29 June 1885 as the interim terminus of the Eastern Railway when it was extended from Chidlow's Well. York became a

junction station ''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated either on or close to a rail junction, where lines to two or more destinations diverge. Many junction stations have multiple platform faces to enable trains for multiple destinatio ...

with a line opened south to

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on 5 August 1886 to connect with the Great Southern Railway from Albany. On 29 June 1885, Walkinshaw Cowan was invited to give a speech at the extension of the railway line to York. He said: The single fare from Perth to York was 5 shillings and the return fare was 7 shillings and sixpence. The Bruce Rock line opened east to Greenhills on 1 September 1898, being extended to Quairading on 24 April 1908 and Bruce Rock on 28 March 1913. It was cut back to Quairading in the 1990s and closed entirely in October 2013. When the Eastern Railway was extended to

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in 1894, it was done so via Northam rather than York even though it was the largest inland town in Western Australia at the time. In 1906, the station was extended. In 1977, it was classified by the

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. The '' Albany Progress'' utilised the station until the service ceased in December 1978.

Railway Station Master’s Quarters

The Railway Station Master’s Quarters were designed by

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and would have been one his first buildings after he was appointed as Principal Architect in June 1885. The building is possibly the earliest example of

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style in Australia, emulating

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, for whom the ideal in house design was to copy the “ageless domestic architecture” of Bibury in Gloucestershire, a Cotswald hamlet.Davey, P: Arts and Crafts Architecture: The Search for Earthly Paradise, The Architectural Press: London, 1980, p.24. Temple-Poole has designed the Railway Station Quarters like a Cotswald cottage: * small in scale, homely and domestic * using two locally made materials with contrasting colours and textures, stone and brick * high pitched roofs * irregular positioned windows * taller than usual chimneys * protruding eaves * twin gables The building is now a private residence.

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External links

York Station
History of Western Australian Railways & Stations gallery Disused railway stations in Western Australia Eastern Railway (Western Australia)

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Railway stations in Australia opened in 1885

State Register of Heritage Places in the Shire of York Railway stations in Australia closed in 1978