Sheep on the platform

All that remains of the old village station, which closed in 1959, are two platforms: these wooden remains at one end and a disintegrating brick one at the other. 

The land on which the station buildings had stood, along with a row of shops, is now covered with trees and grass, and provides occasional grazing for this small flock of sheep.

In the days when the railway was operational trains delivered flour from the mill, coal from the mine and stock from local farms to the port of Oamaru. 

There was a passenger service too. High school children traveled to town each day, as well as people commuting in both directions.

Today it is a sleepy backwater; the 24 residents dependent upon cars for transport, other than kids who use the school bus on weekday mornings and afternoons. 

Not much remains as it was, but the platforms remind us about the thriving community of a century ago.