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Heritage-listed signal box transformed into eatery
By Stephen Crafti
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Sometimes the most significant buildings can be the most modest.
This is certainly the case with the state heritage-listed signal box, adjacent to the Hunter River foreshore in Newcastle.
Originally part of the Newcastle Railway Station Group of 1858 when a number of railways were introduced to New South Wales, the Newcastle signal box was then rebuilt in 1936, with many of the parts imported from Britain.
Many of the station’s original structures and equipment were rediscovered.
Credit:Alexander McIntyre
The Hunter Central Coast Development Corporation, which oversaw this development, was keen to not only restore and find a new use for this relic, but also create an offering that would respond to the recently completed parkland designed by landscape architects JMD Design.