Claim: Yass Junction railway station, a railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia which was heritage-listed on April 1999, is located outside of Yaas due to the refusal to build the Main South line through the middle of Yass as it will be more expensive; therefore, leading to the present route from Gunning to Bowning.
Evidence: Yass Junction railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main South line in New South Wales, Australia. The station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Yass Junction station is located outside of Yass due to the refusal of the Engineer-in-Chief of the New South Wales Railways, John Whitton to build the Main South line through the middle of Yass itself. Instead, the present route from Gunning to Bowning was chosen which passed four kilometres to the north, with the station opening on 3 July 1876 as Yass. After a visit on 8 December 1871, to investigate possible routes for the extension of the line from Goulburn, Whitton remarked that "to bring the station to North Yass would increase the length of the line by about three quarters of a mile; that the cost would be considerably more than I had recommended, probably £30,000 or £40,000 for works alone; and that in an engineering point of view [a] divergence to North Yass could not be entertained.