Steam returns to Dim

I'm still playing with 'now and then' photos, so when a copy of Shane McCarthy's "Patterns of steam" passed my desk at a time when I was recording local railway stations, well, these photos were the result - 

The black and white image from December 1968, is of the K154 steam loco shunting in the Dimboola yard on now disused tracks. On the right is the now dismantled signal box proclaiming the stop as Dimboola. The pedestrian bridges, station building and silos still exist, but the goods shed has been removed.

Also from the wonderful "Patterns of steam" was this one of Kaniva. Here the J555 pauses at Kaniva with a Dimboola-Serviceton goods train in December 1967. Again the changes are evident, the trees have grown, the station building is now boarded up and abandoned, and not visible but behind the empty wagons is a silo complex. Also as at Dimboola, only the main Melbourne-Adelaide track is in service, the others rusting away.