It was designed by the New South Wales Government Railways and the station building was built by Goodsell & Wright, as a contractor.

[1] Eskbank played a role in the extensive trials which were undertaken during the 1880s and 1890s to ascertain the most suitable types of locomotives to be used for the haulage of freight and passengers on the Blue Mountains line.

The new loco site to the east contained a 60-foot turntable, provision for two round houses, an engine shed, stores and coal loading ramps.

[1] The Eskbank platform building remained in use as an office for track staff until it was vacated c. 2005 and a lease for the premises was taken out by the State Mine Railway.

[1] The complex comprises the following buildings and structures: External: The 1882 station building is a fine example of the design adopted by John Whitton for stations at significant locations along the western, southern and northern railway lines during the first decades of NSW railway construction and is an example of the Victorian Italianate style.

The principal design features, such as chimneys, windows and doors are arranged symmetrically in the classical manner, reinforced by the use of stone cornices, quoins, architraves and base course in an otherwise brick masonry building.

The sandstone window bay is made up of full sections of stone in the lintel and architraves with a finely detailed dentilled cornice.

It features the central breakfront, with the fine sandstone bay window, and originally a pair of symmetrical verandahs that protected visitors entering the station via the general waiting room.

It features plain stretcher bond brickwork on the brick and stone platform base with a low-pitched hip gable roof with corrugated iron or steel sheeting.

A modern concrete platform has recently been built north of the loading dock where there would originally have been road vehicle access.

The sliding windows are small multi-paned and timber framed and sashed and the first floor landing containing a toilet is cantilevered on cast iron decorative brackets.

[1] Originally located to the east of the station site, on the Up side, and consisting of a sixty-foot Sellars turntable and a three-road, timber-framed, corrugated iron-clad engine shed with a central ventilating ridge and separate smoke chutes over each road.

Watering facilities were located at the south-west corner of the depot, adjacent to the Main Western Railway Line.

The modern concrete bridge deck on iron girders was constructed in 1957 to accommodate the overhead wiring when the line was electrified.

[1] Apart from one extant cast iron bubbler on the main Platform there are no known moveable items within the Eskbank Railway Precinct.

[1] The archaeological remains of the locomotive depot may exist however; they have moderate technical significance for their connection to the evaluation and adaptation of comparative British and American technologies which took place in the 1880s and 1890s.

[1] The Eskbank station building is largely intact and the precinct retains many of the original structures on site, including one of the oldest goods sheds in the State.

The Eskbank station and the nearby remains of the locomotive depot, branch line and associated infrastructure demonstrate a class of first generation railway places.

The masonry details and Victorian ironwork was both functional and decorative and was a forerunner to the next generation of grander stations in NSW.

The goods shed and the remains of the locomotive depot contribute to the overall value of the place, as well as the link to the State Mine site.

The archaeological remains of the locomotive depot have moderate technical significance for their connection to the evaluation and adaptation of comparative British and American technologies which took place in the 1880s and 1890s.

[1] Eskbank railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

Eskbank Railway Precinct has high significance for its association with the state mining and industrial developments within the Lithgow Valley from the 1870s until the 1920s.

The precinct played an important role in housing, maintaining and servicing the locomotives which operated on the railway lines in the Lithgow Valley and that transported goods to Sydney and greater NSW.

[1] The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The masonry details and Victorian ironwork was both functional and decorative and was a forerunner to the next generation of grander stations in NSW.

The place is now held in high esteem by the rail heritage groups, local council and volunteers who continue to be associated with the site and promote its conservation.

[1] The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

[1] The archaeological remains of the locomotive depot have moderate technical significance for their connection to the evaluation and adaptation of comparative British and American technologies which took place in the 1880s and 1890s.

[1] The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.