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Lamp Room
The Lamp Room is a tiny octagonal building just to the west from the end of the platform at the Railway Station. It was built to house flammable liquids used in lamps for signals and other items requiring fuels of very flammable nature that would be dangerous closer to places where passengers or workers would be located on the main platform. The potential to be an explosive environment might also explain the design - to control or contain an explosion.
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Thanks to Wikipedia editor Tom Hogarth and the State Records Office for identifying the purpose of the building and providing the data above. And thanks to Mary Yates for asking the question.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 10 October, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/lamproom.html (it was last updated on 21 September, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.