For many years the rooms at Blayney railway station lay empty and unused.
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Barred from public use the historic building had the potential to be transformed into a community cultural space that Blayney has always lacked.
Now thanks to a massive repair and renovation project undertaken by Sydney Trains the restoration and refurbishment of the station is complete.
The rooms have all been painted, the floors restored and a few extra doors have been put in place to allow for a better use of the building for exhibitions and community groups.
Textures of One's president Penny May has been actively involved in the development of the station and even now says that the completed works are wonderful.
"It's surpassed all my expectations really," she said.
"The quality of workmanship and the amount of money that's gone into this project is phenomenal."
With the rooms now completed Ms May sees the real potential of the site.
"I can see a lot of community groups using the platform from book clubs, yoga classes, artists in residency and what is a large exhibition space," she said.
During the consultative process events and exhibitions were imagined to help create an interpretative centre that will explore the history of the railway.
"With all the video and interpretative displays to be created it will really bring history back to life," said deputy mayor Allan Ewin.
He also has real life action in mind.
"Blacksmithing, pottery, painting, sculpture or whatever, the platform really lends itself to it," he said.
The station's rich history as both an interchange for men heading off to take part in their national service duties and as a semi-industrial loading area is one that the president of the Blayney Local and Family History Group president Gwenda Stanbridge is very keen to see on the walls.
"I'm hoping that we can have an area for changeable displays that show Blayney's history, particularly the town's history," she said.
"Millthorpe and Carcoar may have the historic streetscapes, but in Blayney we had the rabbit factory, a copper mine, an old lime kiln just up the road, a brewery and a cordial factory and those stories need to be told."
For Rabbitoh supporters in the NRL, Blayney played an important role in the club's mascot.
"They used to ship all the rabbit skins and rabbits to Redfern where they would sell them which is why they're called the Rabbitohs," Ms May said.
"Rabbits were a big industry in Blayney and my father used to talk about that," Cr Ewin said.
"There was even a freezing works alongside the station,"