There is also some used as spouting brackets at a station in this video
where three lads hiked the disused Castlemaine to Maryborough railway line.
They are shown at about 28 minutes and the station is Newstead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs712EWcdHQ

Andrew.

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On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 17:00, Roger Greenwood efftech@...> wrote:

> Hi All,

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> The strange object is on the outbound side of the North Brighton station.

> It’s not duplicated on the inbound side, pictured in a second photograph.

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> The object looks to be a gargoyle but it isn’t connected to any water

> runoff. If it was, it would drench people waiting below.

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> Much of the station building gutter is adorned by some low-profile iron

> lace-work on which several gargoyles are placed symmetrically.

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> According to some purists, gargoyles only qualify as such if they

> incorporate the means of discharging water from gutters/spouting/etc,

> otherwise they’re referred to as ‘grotesques’.

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> Just where the North Brighton cast iron came from, and why it was

> installed there, is not known to me.

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> Roger

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