Kuranda station, and its
monument
to the railway's builders.
When all were aboard, the train continued onto Kuranda, which is just a few kilometres up the track.
Kuranda station, and its
monument
to the railway's builders.
Two (perhaps the only two) trains used on the Kuranda Scenic Railway,
and also showing some of the gardens on the platform.
One of the QR staff helping to uncouple the locomotives from our train.
Presumably they'll go to the other end for the journey back to Cairns.
Another view of the platform and its gardens.
The palm trees are actually outside the railway property. But still,
Kuranda is clearly a very tropical station! It is also the most northerly
station in Queensland (if I correctly remember the spiel on board the train on
the way up). I was surprised to hear this, as I expected
The Gulflander,
running between Norman and Croydon on the Gulf of Carpentaria, would be further north.
An aerial view of the platform - a very leafy one indeed.
Part of the walkway, a reminder of being in tropical rainforest country.
There's a collection of street furniture/art throughout Kuranda, built from former
railway bits and pieces, such as this seat built from surplus rail.
A "locust" on the main street.
An insect sits patiently on a bollard.
Barron Falls
Butterfly Sanctuary