Shikanotani Station airconditioner units Corrugated iron and hardwood timber

Corrugated iron and hardwood timber frame a space built for hard seasonal work

this terminus served the pastoral communities of the southern Monaro tablelands for 65 years

their precise measurement grids made redundant long before the photographs were taken

and for the decade that followed

its steel rollers still seated in their frames

Shikanotani Station airconditioner units Corrugated iron and hardwood timberShikanotani Station stands on the now closed Yubari branch line, its platform edged by overgrown track and rust working steadily through the metalwork. Forty years before the 2016 photograph, this building served as Yubari's main railway terminus. The branch line operated for 127 years before closing on 1 April 2019. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.