Mount Barker Station, 22nd
of December 2004
Built : 1889
Original Name :
Station Facts : The current Mount Barker Station buildings were opened in 1929. Many years ago Mount Barker's social centre was it’s
Grand Station. However by 1984 passenger and goods services by rail were discontinued and the vacant station fell into disrepair. Before
1997, the station was very close to being demolished, I remember passing the station on the way to Albany for a few years before 1997
and the roof was collapsing. 1997 saw restoration work commence on the station, with the help of the work for the dole Government
initative, Heritage Grants and money given by the Plantagenant Shire council.
Today Mount Barker Station is the towns Tourist Bureau and without a doubt the best condition surviving Railway Station along the old Great
Southern Railway.
Mount Barker Station, 3rd of February 1969
Mount Barker Station, 22nd of December 2004
Mount Barker Station, 22nd of December 2004
Mount Barker Station Goods Shed (left), and Station platform (right), 22nd of December 2004
Mount Barker Station, 3rd
of February 1969
(Thanks to Roderick Smith for these photos of Mount Barker Station)