Closed in 1984, the Mt Barker Junction Station now sits abandoned – a brick building built in 1943 with a 120 metre-long platform.
As the station’s name suggests, to the east of the station there was a junction: the eastern fork continued on to Melbourne; the southern fork went to Victor Harbor.
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