These included railway fettlers and their families ( there were 4 fettler families, complete with children ), Listers'Salt Works ( now WA Salt Supply ) employees, a school teacher, a shop keeper and a few hotel staff.
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A 1988 plan of the railway complex at Cooroy shows an inspector's house, inspector's hut, and fettler's hut to the west of the line, south of the road bridge, and an assistant station master's house north of the bridge.
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Gelaro ( 30 km ) had a crossing loop, levers and a shelter shed by 1969 . Bullock Creek ( 52 km ) had a siding and railway phone by 1916, and was the site of a permanent fettler's ( rail line maintenance worker's ) camp by 1932.