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Power is supplied by Horizon Power, who run a diesel power station in the town.The town supplies its own water from bores, which is treated by the Water Corporation.The Carnarvon–Mullewa Road, which passes through the town, is sealed between Carnarvon and Gascoyne Junction; a ceremony to mark the reconstruction of the last section was held on 20 May 2011.
The Carnarvonshire Railway was absorbed into the LNWR in 1869. [2] At the grouping of the railways in 1921 the LNWR became part of the LMS.. At Afon Wen, a junction connected with the Cambrian Line to Pwllheli in one direction and to Porthmadog in the other, with the LNWR (and later LMS) having running rights to both.
Carnarvon (/ k ər ˈ n ɑːr v ə n / kər-NAR-vən) is a coastal town situated approximately 900 kilometres (560 mi) north of Perth, in Western Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Gascoyne River on the Indian Ocean .
The station, which opened on 1 July 1852, was first named Carnarvon. [2] [nb 1] The town was originally the terminus of the branch line from Menai Bridge, later becoming part of the Carnarvonshire Railway. In 1864, the Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway extended the branch line 8 miles (13 km) from Carnarvon station to Llanberis. A 300-yard (270 m ...
Before the mid-1920s, travelling north from Geraldton necessitated going through Mullewa, Dairy Creek and Gascoyne Junction. In 1926, a direct route joining Geraldton and Carnarvon was constructed, shortening the trip by 160 km (100 mi). At first, this was little more than a rough bush track, at least partly used for extracting sandalwood. As ...
Gascoyne Trading Company (GTC) was a transport company in Western Australia. It was established in 1924 by Keith Anderson and Charles Kingsford Smith in Carnarvon. [1] [2] One of its early contracts was the mail run through the Gascoyne to Meekatharra. [3] [4] It expanded to serve industries between Perth and the Pilbara. [5] [6]
The Shire of Upper Gascoyne is a local government area in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, inland from Carnarvon and about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of the state capital, Perth. The Shire has an area of 57,939 square kilometres (22,370 sq mi), much of which is uninhabited land or sparsely vegetated sheep station country, and its ...
Carnarvon Castle railway station was opened in 1856 by the narrow gauge Nantlle Railway near the foot of what is today the Allt Y Castell which slopes down to Caernarfon's harbour area. [4] It was the line's northern terminus and was the closest of Caernarfon's ultimately five stations to the historic town centre.