| House | $1,092,400  |
| Unit | $615,600 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Altona | $1,126,200  |
| Altona North | $963,100 |
| Newport | $1,182,100 |
| Williamstown | $1,632,400 |
| House | $713 |
| Unit | $563 |
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| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| The former Newport Railway Workshops, comprising the whole of the land and buildings defined by the Heritage Council in VHR H1000, at 2-78 Champion Road, Newport. How is it Significant? The former Newport Railway Workshops are of local historical, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay. Why is it Significant? Historically, the Newport Railway Workshops are an integral component of the massive amount of railway associated buildings and infrastructure established in Newport and Williamstown by the Victorian Railways during the nineteenth and twentieth century, which had a significant effect on the development of both suburbs particularly after the decline of the port. It provides a powerful illustration of the importance of railways not only to the development of Williamstown and Newport, but also of Victoria during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (AHC criteria A4 and H1) Aesthetically, they are architecturally important as a large and well-preserved example of alarge nineteenth and early twentieth century manufacturing complex. (AHC criteria E1 and F1) Technically, they contain rare examples of equipment and machinery associated with railway manufacturing. (AHC criterion B2) Note: Included on the Victorian Heritage Register as VHR H1000. The following extract is from the citation prepared by Heritage Victoria, which further explains the significance of the place: The 1888 group of buildings forming the original Newport Railway Workshops have historical significance as one of the best surviving 19th century railway workshops in the world, and one of Australia's most outstanding items of industrial heritage. The Newport workshops were the Victorian Railway's main workshops for just over a century. The later buildings reflecting growth, particularly during 1902-1928 in the period of modernisation, expansion and the production of locomotives, demonstrate this subsequent important period of development. For many of those years the Workshops were one of Victoria's largest and best equipped engineering establishments, with up to 5,000 employees on site, building and maintaining steam locomotives and other rolling stock, and also making tarpaulins and other basic stores for railway use. Newport Workshops even made many of its own machine tools, a task which required a high level of technical expertise. Newport Workshops were also an important centre of World War Two production. The 1888 group of buildings at Newport Railway Workshops have architectural significance for their large scale and the high quality of their design and construction. These qualities of the Workshops reflect the transition from adhoc management of the railw |
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