Dunedin’s railway station was New Zealand’s busiest when it opened. Exuberant in its Marseilles tiles, Central Otago basalt, Ōamaru stone and Peterhead granite designed by George Troup in the Flemish Renaissance style. It is his most famous design earning Troup the nickname of "Gingerbread George".
The station opened in 1906. The logistics of constructing what was at the time New Zealand's busiest railway station took three years before construction began in 1903. Dunedin required a station for a wide range of activities: it was a commercial and industrial centre, close to gold and coalfields, with a hinterland that was dependent on livestock and forestry for its economy.
Today the station has tourist trains running to Taipei Gorge in the interior of the South Island.
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