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Dorcas and Park Streets. Recorded in the Minutes of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Co., of 28<br />

July 1856 is the acceptance of the tender by Hope and McKenzie of £11,000 for the erection of the<br />

bridges(8). This was one of the first (if not the first) road-over-rail crossings in Australia(9). The bridge at<br />

Dorcas Street is incised in the capping with 'W. Elsdon, Engineer, St.K.R'y 1857'.<br />

The station building is typical of the 1880s in its use of polychromatic brickwork over an Italianate-derived<br />

design. In this case the essay is particularly complete, with heavily bracketed eaves and brick and render<br />

chimneys of Italianate styling with coupled expressed shafts. The decoration is continued into the entrance<br />

lobby of the Ferrars Street building with an intact tessellated tile floor, blind arches, and a very fine panelled<br />

timber ceiling set in panels with v-jointed lining boards to each panel. The verandah to the west platform is<br />

supported on fluted iron columns and the brick and iron picket fence is intact to the west of the building. The<br />

east building repeats the polychrome theme, but is less ornate and has a slightly later cantilevered verandah<br />

set on open trusses. Of particular distinction are the timber entrance gates.<br />

The basalt bridges are very simple in their forms and have expressed buttresses immediately flanking the<br />

railway line. The pedestrian bridge is an intact example of an open truss bridge with metal strapwork in the<br />

trusses and timber joists spanning between in order to support the pathway.<br />

History<br />

see Description<br />

Thematic Context<br />

unknown<br />

Recommendations<br />

A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998<br />

recommended inclusions:<br />

Victorian Heritage Register<br />

National Estate Register<br />

Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip <strong>Planning</strong> Scheme<br />

References<br />

1. Date on the Dorcas Street Bridge<br />

2. National Trust Australia (Vic.) 'Port Melbourne and St. Kilda Railway Lines',<br />

research Paper p. 8<br />

3. ibid.<br />

4. C. Daley, 'History of South Melbourne'. p 67<br />

5. National Trust Australia (Vic.) loc.cit.<br />

6. ibid.<br />

7. C. Daley, 'History of South Melbourne'. p 143<br />

8. National Trust Australia (Vic.) 'Research into Dorcas-Bank-Park Street Bridges', 19 July 1986<br />

9 . National Trust Australia (Vic.) 'Port Melbourne ..' loc.cit.

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