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Brunswick tram engine house and substation

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The Brunswick tram engine house and substation is a former tram engine house and electrical substation, located at 253–263 Brunswick Road, in Brunswick, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The complex was built in stages between 1887 and 1925. The engine house was de-commissioned in 1925 and the substation was decommissioned in 1936. The building, located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people and principally repurposed as a tyre workshop, was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 12 December 2013 in recognition of its historical and archaeological significance.

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