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The rail link from Culcairn to Corowa was last used in the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in January 1988 after which the line was closed. The station yard has been converted to parkland and includes the original turntable.
Unfortunately, as with all historic buildings in this country, the station has been repainted in horrid "heritage colours". Yuk! The government has declared that buildings of significant cultural value be painted in colours that are DIFFERENT from how those buildings had appeared in their prime.
The range of colours is very restricted so we now have thousands of beautiful buildings across the country painted in the same shades of brown, cream and green. What?? No old buildings were originally plain white, or blue?
Often the original colours can be easily documented but it seems this is irrelevant to the government department whose task is to erase all memory of the urban colours of Australian history.
I had my Nikon N75, Sigma 24-105mm and Ektar film with me on this occasion.
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Just across the Murray River is the town of Rutherglen. Its station and wheat silos were linked to the main Sydney-Melbourne line at Springhurst until 1995. The station and some track still exists, complete with railway gates across the main street.
The station building is not currently open to the public. The government undoubtedly wants to paint it a different colour first...
The impossible bicycle artwork in the station yard was a whimsical surprise.
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