Its creation has seen renewed interest in the site following a partnership between the Kyabram Project Committee and Goulburn Valley Water.
The Virginia brick tower that stands alongside the mural originally serviced steam locomotives, drawing water from the nearby dams into a 40,000 gallon tank on top of the tower, before eventually being connected to reticulated piping to provide the town with its water supply. The original tank has since been removed.
The tower is one of only a handful of railway towers that remain in the state. Each level of the tower is marked with a string mould and the upper supporting structure has a cornice-like rim and a basalt coping base which once supported a wrought-iron chequered holding tank.
Its arched windows are supported by basalt sills, aligned with the entry door. There are no internal staircases or floors.
It was not until a decade after its construction that the tower became responsible for the delivery of the town’s first source of reticulated water, when Kyabram Urban Water Trust purchased the waterworks plant and land for 1650 pounds in 1906.