Young Railway Station

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Young is a sizeable inland town on the now closed Blayney-Demondrille cross country line. The town is known as the Cherry capital of Australia.

 The railway station building is still very much there but now has a different use. It's the local tourist information center.

 

 

Young Railway Station seen from the road side.

 

 

Seen from the station platform side.

 

 

A carriage in the bay platform is used by a local motorbike group as a storage shed. It's lost it's buffers. The box on the side is actually a wall mounted air conditioner. The coach has been substantially altered with all the windows being plated over and new door openings.

 

 

This is looking towards Kingsvale station (now closed and demolished) and Demondrille where there was a junction with the Sydney-Melbourne line known as the Main Southern Line. The signal box at Demondrille still stands but the huge coaling stage which serviced steam locos running between Sydney and Melbourne was demolished many years ago. The nearest major town to Demondrille is Harden. 

 

 

This is looking towards Cowra. The lean to structure is part of the wheat silos now only road served although there is a constant push to reopen the whole line from Blayney on the main western line through to the junction at Demondrille. Heavy trucks and b double trucks cause huge damage to local roads hence the push to reopen this line.

Edited April 30, 2021 by faulcon1