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Murtoa Railway Station

Year of completion
Client
Cost
Location
Traditional owners

2018
VicTrack
$430,000
Murtoa VIC, Australia
Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk

Photography by Davidson Architecture

Murtoa Railway Station was a large complex of several structures, platforms, and a branch terminus up until trains ceased service in the 1980s. The only surviving building was the main station, which had been entirely infested with termites. As the termites had eaten from the bottom up, the building was literally sinking into the earth.


As part of the VicTrack Community Use of Vacant Rail Buildings Program, Davidson Architecture were commissioned to provide designs for restoration of the building fabric and conversion of the building into a usable Community Building for use and displays by the local Murtoa and District Historical Society.


Working with Mark Hodkinson, Heritage Engineer, we worked out a methodology which involved suspending the roof and upper portions of the building frame while the degraded base and lower portions of the timber frame could be cut out and entirely replaced with termite resistant timber founded on a new concrete slab poured below the salvaged building.


The complex sequence of events was carried out with great skill by local Murtoa Contractors David and Paul Delahunty, with much of the excavation done by hand due to the impeding structure remaining above.


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