 Progress was rapid, and the whole of the line work was completed by 23 November 1942.At Coen, a carrier station was erected adjacent to the 1886 telegraph station and connected to it.Like the buildings erected at Mount Surprise, Fairview and Cape York, the Coen Carrier Station was of pre-fabricated steel frame construction, with outer walls of corrugated iron, concrete floors, and fibrous cement roofing.