Junee

This important station on the main south was opened in 1878. The current station building, including the Railway Refreshment Rooms and Hotel, was completed in March 1885. Designed by John Whitton, chief engineer of the time, no expense was spared in its construction. The name was changed to Junee Junction when the line opened to Narrandera, a branch westward,in 1881.  The name reverted to Junee in April 1940. A massive brick roundhouse, still in operation as a working locomotive maintenance facility and museum is located to the south west, the two signal boxes still stand, north and south, however both are disused after the recent resignalling. In 1999 a southbound freight train derailed causing extensive damage to the overhead footbridge and signal gantry at the northern end of the yard. The massive station buildings still slumber, the refreshment rooms and hotel long ago reduced to a mere shadow, like the passenger trains that once passed here. And of course from the days when the railway supported hundreds of workers and their families,very few remain today.