I am assuming that you mean gardens at railway stations that were often
planted and tended by railway staff. These tended to be of the decorative or
flower gardens although I seem to recall that during the war some British
stations also had vegetable gardens.
I don’t recall anyone in Australia doing any research on the topic but I do
know that in New South Wales and in Victoria there were competitions for the
best railway gardens and these were publicised in the monthly railway
magazines. It would be very interesting to find out about the form of the
gardens (for example were GWR gardens different from LNER gardens?) and the
context in which they were produced (industrial welfarism?).
American stations don’t tend to have platforms which may be why the term
railway gardens got confused with garden railways.
yours
Dr Iain Stuart
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