Moana railway station (1940)
Lake Brunner Ana Street
This much photographed charming railway station is a welcoming sight for railway passengers on the Tranzalpine train. Rail Heritage Trust describes the building as, “Moana is a Troup Class A design, incorporating when built an office, lobby, ladies’ waiting room and toilet, but in the reverse order to the standard design. At the west end is the former postal lobby. It has a corrugated-iron roof and rusticated weatherboard cladding. It is a lean-to with adjoining verandah, mirroring the pitch of the building proper. The verandah has been cut back to fit modern railway wagon profiles…The date of the first Moana Station building is not certain, but the Stillwater-Otira section of the Midland Railway opened in 1894. The present Moana was built after a disastrous fire early in the morning of 16 April 1926 that gutted the station and the refreshment rooms.”
