Navarre railway line

Within a short period of time, extra storage sheds were required at nearly all the stations to handle local produce on its way to market.

However, by the late 1940s, with dwindling supplies of suitable timber, the advent of motorised transport and rising operating costs, it appeared more and more likely that the line would close if something couldn't be done quickly.

To try to improve the situation, leading businessmen of the area, particularly from St Arnaud to the north, lobbied to have the line extended to pick up an increasing trade in grain.

[4] By 2010, little evidence of the railway remained, although aerial photographs clearly show sections of the right of way to the west and north-west of Landsborough, today located in the Pyrenees Shire.

At Navarre, foundations of the old buildings, a goods loading ramp and weighbridge pit bore testament to the ideals locals had for the area.