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Cobar railway station
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Location Cobar railway line, Cobar, Cobar Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Owner Transport Asset Holding Entity
Official name: Cobar Railway Station and yard
Type state heritage (complex / group)
Designated 2 April 1999
Reference no. 1114
Type Railway Platform/ Station
Category Transport - Rail
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Cobar railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station on the Cobar railway line at Cobar, Cobar Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History

Passenger services to the station ceased c. 1976.

Description

Cobar railway station, 2017 (06)
Platform

The heritage-listed complex consists of a brick station building of a type 4 standard roadside third class design with brackets and a timber faced platform, dating from 1892, the former railway barracks and a loading bank.

Heritage listing

1114 - Cobar Railway Station and yard - SHR Plan No 2775 (5011972b100)
Heritage boundaries

Cobar station is an excellent station building from the peak period of railway construction at a remote location at the end of a branch line built to serve the mining activity in the area, a role still played today. The building represents the finest construction and detailing and is in excellent original condition. It is an important civic building in Cobar and an important element of the States railway history.

Cobar railway station and yard was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.

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