The La La siding, Turntable is listed on the Yarra Ranges Council Heritage Database ‘as evidence of the scale of timber getting operations in the upper Yarra Valley in the early nineteenth century.’ It remains one of the last surviving steel pieces of railway infrastrucutre in our Upper Yarra Region.
An elegy to the La La Turntable
For nearly six decades, no train did turn,
The La La Turntable was left to yearn.
Debris and weeds, with creeping embrace,
Claimed the old structure, erasing its face.
A moment of freedom it briefly did see,
Yet time whispered softly, “It’s not meant to be.”
Once more, the weeds, in their silent parade,
Drew it back into nature’s cool shade.
But hope still lingers, a flickering light,
That one day it may rise, from shadow to sight.
To teach a new age of the tales it once wove,
Of tracks that connected, of journeys it drove.
Until that day comes, it lies in the clay,
Partly entombed, slowly wasting away.
Yet in its decay, its spirit remains,
A relic of railways, of triumphs and strains.
Warburton Advancement League 