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The first formalised agreement between the US and Australia on Space Vehicle and Communication establishing the early tracking stations of 1957 as well as new stations at Woomera and Perth for Project Mercury, as well as a Deep Space Probe Radio Tracking Station (85 foot diameter antenna) at Woomera. [13]
The Armadale line is a partially-closed suburban railway service in Perth, Western Australia, operated by the Public Transport Authority as part of the Transperth system. The Armadale line is 30.4 kilometres (18.9 mi) long, and starts at Perth station, heading south-east of there to serve Perth's south-eastern suburbs, terminating at Armadale station.
The first railway in Perth was the Eastern Railway from Fremantle to Guildford via Perth, which opened on 1 March 1881. Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was formed in 1890 as the operator of railways in Perth and Western Australia. The South Western Railway opened on 2 May 1893. On 28 September 1899, the first trams in Perth begin ...
Between Bayswater and Perth, the Airport line shares track with the Midland line, and between Perth and Claremont, the Airport line shares track with the Fremantle line. The maximum speed of this line is 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph) within the section between Bayswater and High Wycombe. [69]
Nine News (stylized as 9News) is the 24-hour national news service of the Nine Network in Australia.Its flagship program is the hour-long 9News bulletin at 6pm, with editions produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin; [1] regional editions for Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast air under the name of NBN News and are ...
North of Perth Underground station, along the Yanchep line, the track bends westwards, then surfaces parallel to the Fremantle line, allowing trains to switch tracks to the rest of the network. [ citation needed ] Approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) north along the Yanchep line is the Nowergup depot , [ 130 ] where maintenance on trains occurs ...
The remaining stations between Perth and Joondalup opened on 21 March 1993, [10] and an extension to Currambine station opened on 8 August 1993. [11] Subiaco station was rebuilt in the late 1990s, opening on 12 December 1998 as Perth's first underground station. [12] [13] A number of new stations opened in the 2000s under the New MetroRail project.
Dual gauge track at South Beach station in February 2006. Transperth operate services on the line from Fremantle through the Perth CBD to Midland on the Midland line. [31] [32] [33] Freight services operate from Kewdale and Forrestfield to North Quay. Until July 2015 these were operated by Aurizon when SCT Logistics took over. [34] [35]