Regent Street railway station

The Regent Street (English Regent Street Railway Station and Regent Street ) railway station was a railway station of Rookwood Cemetery - railway line in Sydney, drove away from the funeral trains to Rookwood Cemetery, the largest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere, with more than a million graves. He later became part of the freight depot Sydney Yard.

The decorative building is located on the west side of Sydney Yard, not far from Sydney Central Station and from the Railway Square.

History

The station was built as part of the Rookwood Cemetery - railway line and completed on March 22, 1869, but since January 1, 1869 was in operation. He was officially opened on 29 June 1869 as Mortuary ( German: morgue ). Later changed the name in Regent Street, after the street on which the building is located. (: Mortuaries Station German ) or Necropolis Receiving Station At times, the station also as Mortuary Station was ( German: Necropolis - destination station ) is known. From him also trains ran to Woronora General Cemetery, Sutherland, south of Sydney, and to Sandgate Cemetery in Newcastle.

The buildings of Regent station and the Receiving -house station ( German: Welcome home station) at Rookwood Cemetery were James Barnet, the government architect of New South Wales, designed, stylistically modeled on the Venetian Gothic style of the 13th century. The ornate carvings, including angels, cherubs and gargoyles come mainly from the sculptors Thomas and Henry Ducket Apperly. Although both buildings of their construction and their symbolic decoration should remind her to churches, they were never worship purposes.

Since 14 March 1938, the platform was used for the loading of dogs and horses, from February 1950 as packet station. The railway authority (State Rail Authority ) of New South Wales had the building in 1981 restored for about 600,000 AUD, after the National Trust of Australia, it added to its list of historic monuments and the conservation authorities of Australia and New South Wales had made ​​it a historical monument. Was on April 21, 1985, the building of Neville Wran, the Prime Minister of New South Wales, reopened.

From 1986 to 1989 was in the building the pancake restaurant Magic Mortuary ( German: mortuary spells), the guests sat in railway wagons. After the station was occasionally used to exit from special trains and for shows and rented as an event space.

Gallery

Platform inside the building

Details of the stone carvings inside the building

Stone carvings at the entrance hall

Look at the tracks of the freight station from inside the building