Mortuary railway station
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Regent Street
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Northbound view in July 2006
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| Location | Regent Street, Chippendale |
| Coordinates | 33°53′12″S 151°12′09″E / 33.8868°S 151.2024°ECoordinates: 33°53′12″S 151°12′09″E / 33.8868°S 151.2024°E |
| Owned by | RailCorp |
| Line(s) | Rookwood |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Tracks | 1 |
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| Status | Reused |
| History | |
| Opened | 29 June 1869 |
| Rebuilt | 21 April 1985 |
| Electrified | Yes |
| Previous names | Mortuary |
| Regent Street railway station | |
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Photograph of Mortuary Station by Charles Pickering in 1872, from the SLNSW collection
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 Location in Greater Metropolitan Sydney
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Former railway station |
| Architectural style | Victorian Free Gothic |
| Coordinates | 33°53′12″S 151°12′08″E / 33.8865464307°S 151.2023515980°E |
| Construction started | 1868 |
| Completed | 22 March 1869 |
| Opened | June 1869 |
| Client | New South Wales Government Railways |
| Owner | Government of New South Wales |
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| Design and construction | |
| Architect | James Barnet (1868-9) |
| Architecture firm | Colonial Architect of New South Wales |
| Developer | Government of New South Wales |
| Main contractor | Stoddart & Medways |
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| References | |
The Regent Street railway station, formerly known as the Mortuary railway station, was a railway station on Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery railway line. Funeral trains departed from the station, bound for Rookwood Cemetery. The station found later use as a part of Sydney Yard. The ornate Gothic building is still standing on the western side of Sydney Yard at Chippendale, close to Central railway station and Railway Square.
The station opened as Mortuary on 29 June 1869. At some point, its name was changed to Regent Street, after the street on which it is located. It has also been referred to by different names, including the Necropolis Receiving Station and the Mortuary Station. The station was built as part of the larger Rookwood Cemetery line. It was completed on 22 March 1869 but had been used since 1 January 1869. It was also one end of the service that ran to the Woronora General Cemetery in Sutherland, located south of Sydney, and for trains heading to Sandgate Cemetery in Newcastle.
This and the Receiving House station at Rookwood Cemetery were designed by colonial architect James Barnet in the Victorian Free Gothic style, using elements from the Venetian 13th century Gothic style. Principal sculptors Thomas Ducket and Henry Apperly worked on the elaborate carvings that were a feature of the stations, including angels, cherubs, and gargoyles. Although both buildings were designed to look like churches, both in structure and in the symbolic elements that adorned them, they were never used as places of worship.
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