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Wellington Railway Station
Wellington Station in 1849
When rail services arrived in Wellington in June 1849, both the station and the area that surrounds it looked quite different from today. The original platforms were much shorter and did not extend beyond the station buildings themselves, with passengers forced to cross the track on wooden boards, as a footbridge was not in situ at the time. A large goods shed was erected in the area now occupied by the northern car park, together with a coal stage, pump house and a 14,000 gallon water tank supplied by a well behind the shed itself, which was later converted to house locomotives in 1868.