Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The Lydiard St. Railway Gates Ballarat - the Drama of Their Preservation
- In
- 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 115-118
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1858256843
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.546280858561073
- Abstract
In 1990 the authors were approached by the City of Ballarat to represent them at a meeting with the Victorian Public Transport Corporation (PTC), on technical matters relating to the preservation of the historic Lydiard St., railway gates. At that time the PTC were re-signing the Ballarat railway yards and were intending to replace the rail gates with standard Boom Barriers and flashing lights. The City of Ballarat wished to retain the rail gates to blend with and enhance the historic street scape of Lydiard St., and the railway station precinct. Over a period of eight years since then a running battle has been occurring between the PTC who wish to remove the gates, and the City of Ballarat, National Trust, and Historic Buildings Council, who wish to retain the gates. This paper presents the chronological history of that battle, and documents the various occurrences which have lead finally to Victorian State Government calling for the retention, rehabilitation, and automation of this historic gates.
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- 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings edited by Martin, Ray L (Melbourne, Vic.: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), 213 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.1858256843. Details