Paintings of scenes along the Lilydale train line are providing a colourful boost to the Croydon Station precinct.
Our Coolstore Road team invited students from Croydon Community School to create a series of art works to be shown in shop windows around the town square.
Students and staff chose the “Lilydale Line” theme, working together to represent diverse landscapes along the line in a series of colourful paintings, including iconic landmarks such as the MCG and Flinders Street Station.
Croydon Community School art teacher Aimy Skym said the students jumped at the chance to participate, choosing a theme that reflected works underway to build Croydon’s new transport hub, interpreted in their “individual style and vision.”
“Our students were really enthusiastic about the task to create the artworks about their connection with the Lilydale Line,” she said.
“While each work tells its own story, together they represent a link and a connection to the landscape, which ultimately connects us as a community.”
Close observers will also find hidden surprises in each painting looking back at them.
The new Croydon Transport Hub will transform the area, providing a modern and safe transport precinct that will feature a rail bridge and new Croydon Station, a bus interchange and new road connections to make it easier for locals to move across the rail line.
The Lilydale Line will be the first line to be level crossing free, with the last three crossings gone in 2024, a year ahead of schedule.
