with curved brackets. Gleeson Avenue overbridge ( 1920s) Brick bridge with brick balustrades. Balustrades are painted with advertising facing Gleeson Avenue. Brick perimeter walls (1925) Dark face brick walls partially defining the station perimeters, extending from Gleeson Avenue some metres along Burrows Avenue on the south and part of the station perimeter in Railway Parade on the north. The Burrows Avenue wall tapers up in height towards Gleeson Avenue. The Railway Parade wall has a flat top and part forms the wall of the 1925 waiting shed on Platform 1. Both walls have a bullnose brick capping course. Platforms Two side platforms; (Platforms 1 and 6) and 2 island platforms (Platforms 2/3 and 4/5). All 4 platforms have asphalt surfaces and brick faces. Natural Features There are shrub plantings at the eastern end of each of the platforms. Modifications and dates 1907: platforms extended. 1912: overhead booking office. 1948: alterations to station buildings (minor), platform extension to Platform 6 1986: Concrete decking and new buildings (ticket office, shop) built late 1980s on existing footbridge structure, following fire damage to previous weatherboard overhead booking office in the mid-1980s. Canopies connecting footbridge to platform buildings built at the same time as new buildings on footbridge. 2013: New, larger concourse built to replace the previous concourse and footbridge. 2019 - ongoing: new northern concourse built, platforms 1-2 extended and converted for metro operation Heritage listing Sydenham Railway Station – inclusive of all platform buildings and awnings, parcels office, waiting shed, brick faced platforms, Gleeson Avenue overbridge and brick perimeter walls – is of State heritage significance. Sydenham Railway Station is of historical significance as a major junction station developed from 1884 to the present, with two 1884 platform buildings, 1925 platform building and waiting shed, 1962 parcels office, and 1920s Gleeson Avenue overbridge demonstrating its development over time, including the adaptation of the 1884 wayside platform buildings for island platform use. Of aesthetic and historical significance, the platform building awnings demonstrate the range of awnings used on railway buildings from the small original awning of two bays on the Platform 2/3 building (the original minor platform) to the addition of cantilevered awnings in 1925. All platform buildings are of aesthetic significance as good representative examples of their types and periods. The 1914 footbridge structure and stairs were of aesthetic and historical associational significance as a representative haunched beam structure and stair manufactured by