A Guards' rest house was also provided in 1877, and in 1885 a branch line was opened from Orange East Fork to Molong.

[1][4] In the year of the railways' arrival to Orange, 8,160 hectares (20,170 acres) of land was under cultivation, wheat being the primary crop.

Accordingly, the initial planning of the precinct included a goods shed, which still stands today, for the loading of Orange grown grains onto rail trucks destined for Sydney markets.

The original goods shed was much longer than it is today, extending northward almost to the end of the railway station platform, where the carpark is now, and utilizing the jib crane.

As the town of Orange grew, the rail activities at Orange were being divided between the station in town and the depot at East Fork and accordingly the coal shed (perhaps only a coal dump or an elevated loading facility) and engine shed were relocated from an area opposite the station to East Fork in 1937.

[6] NSW TrainLink road coach services operating between Lithgow, Dubbo and Nyngan also serve the station.

A platform known as Orange East Fork lies at the rail junction and was served by the Indian Pacific until 2017.

[1] The building houses the central booking office, with extended wings along the platform for parcels, refreshments, waiting rooms and toilets.

It was built c.1885, is late Victorian and includes the following features: gabled front end and octagonal bay with pitched slate roof; main roof of hipped and gable form; four panel glazed entrance door; glazed French verandah doors; sloping iron verandah roof supported on square stop chamfered timber posts, and fine moulded rendered chimneys.

[5][1] Railway institute building, c. 1921 Federation style weatherboard house with pitched corrugated iron roof and brick chimney.

[1][5] The goods shed consists of an internal frame of long Oregon hardwood timber beams clad in corrugated iron with a pitched roof.

The original shed was almost twice as long as it is today having extended northward to the end of the Orange railway station platform to where the jib crane still stands.

The building has also been modified through the introduction of aluminium windows, roller doors and an awning extending from the northern end of the western side of the structure, along with landscaping.

Disused railway tracks run into the shed and there is a diesel tank sitting aloft iron stilts to the southern end of the eastern side of the structure.

[1][5] The signal box is a two-storey timber board building located between the crossing loop track and the Main line south of the Orange railway station.

The OPR shed spans over track that was previously the eighth line of 8 marshalling sidings at Orange.

[1][5] The Permanent Way Depot is located opposite the Administration Building on the eastern side of the Orange rail precinct to the north of the station.

[1] As at 18 July 2013, Orange Railway Precinct is of state significance for its historic, aesthetic and rarity values.

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

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

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

[1] This Wikipedia article contains material from Orange Railway Station and yard group, entry number 01218 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.