Yendon and Navigator.
Yendon station was once similar to Lal Lal, being a magnificent bluestone structure. Unfortunately, it had already been demolished back in the ’70s. Fortunately, it would appear that it is the only structure of this type that has suffered that fate, but it means that we have no photos of it. However, the state library of Victoria does and links to their images are here and here. … And Les Brown has a photo of it from a 1967 ARHS excursion, click here to see it.
Navigator station was similarly obliterated by the time Davo got near it. Because there is so little left of these two sites, they are combined under ‘Yendon’s’ page.
The miserable gallery attached to this page shows some trains working through the general area of where the stations were.
Yendon as it looks now can be found here and here.
Late Edit: Russell Savige has written in with some comments about Yendon. The message has been copied to just under the map below.
Yendon VIC
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Navigators VIC
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Text from Russell Savige’s message as referred to above:
I have read with interest your page on the Yendon railway station. You have links to the State Library of Victoria photographs showing the station buildings in 1967 and 1968, just before they were pulled down. What you may not be aware of is that the State Library has a much earlier photo of the station (ca. 1866) showing what the station looked like just after it was built. The picture can be viewed on the internet on the State Library site – it is titled “The Buninyong Railway Station picture” by Archibald Vincent Smith. The Yendon railway station was originally called Buninyong, the name being changed to Yendon in the 1870’s. Note that there was also a later station called Buninyong built in about 1889 at Buninyong when the railway line to Buninyong was constructed.
Here is a link to the photo that Russell describes.
