I was firing for my good mate, and fellow railfan, Chris Wurr on this train and you can bet that any train worked by us was well photographed! The train was #9103 (200t) and we had departed Ararat at 8.00am. At Stawell we were put away for a cross in the fog and for a reason that escapes me now we were put into the short track behind tawell A box. I remember it was quite cold but best of all Chris let me drive from Stawell to Dimboola.
June 8 1982

A few years later, after I had transfered to Wodonga I went up to Ararat to spend a few days with Chris and travelled by car along the mainline to see the newly installed CTC. When we arrived at Stawell I was shocked to see the remains of this signalbox. All that was left was the smouldering stumps of the signalbox having just been burnt to the ground.