Yubari Backstreet carriageworks its platform empty and windows

its platform empty and windows boarded

Corrugated iron in faded pale blue and rust red wraps a timber-framed shearing shed raised on wooden stumps

The building that once handled Holden servicing and repairs for Sydney's North Shore sat vacant and slowly came apart after the franchise ended

its white-painted balustrades and turned balusters wrapping around a central void as the treads descend toward a dark lower landing

It closed again in 2006 and has had no operator since

Yubari Backstreet carriageworks its platform empty and windowsA narrow backstreet in Yubari runs between a two storey timber clad building and a rendered shopfront, grass pushing through at the kerb edge. Utility poles and a steep hillside fill the background. The street sits within a city that once housed more than 100,000 people and now holds fewer than 6,000. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.