stands as a monument to Whitton's elegant vision for a substantial railway building at Werris Creek. The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. Werris Creek Railway Precinct is significant as one of the largest and best examples of highly intact Victorian and Federation railway architecture in NSW. The precinct is significant for its high quality of design, detailing and its unique setting at the junction of two railway lines. It demonstrates refined taste and competent detailing, especially in the two-storey railway refreshment rooms. Recent works to the place have recovered aspects of significance such as the large refreshment room with its high ceilings and cast iron columns. The works have been researched in detail to enable the authentic values of the RRR to be conserved. The place makes an important contribution to the townscape of Werris Creek. It includes extant evidence of the passenger station, railway refreshment rooms, gas and power plants and other items including staff cottages and nearby sheds and a locomotive depot. The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Werris Creek developed as a "railway town" and throughout much of its history most or all residents of the town were either directly employed by the railways or had close links to the railways. Many residents in the town are still involved in the rail industry, are retired railway employees, and/or are volunteers at the museum. Werris Creek is home to the Australian Railway Monument (a memorial for railway employees throughout Australia who were killed at work) and to the "Rail Journeys" museum which is located in the former refreshment room. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The place has some potential to reveal information about rail travel generally and about the design and operation of refreshments rooms and major country stations particularly with the ability to interpret this to the public in association with the present museum. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The arrangement and scale of the station buildings on the junction platform is unusual. Few locations have buildings of this scale (other examples