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Merredin / ˈ m ɛr ə d ɪ n / is a town in Western Australia, located in the central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway. It is located on the route of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme , and as a result is also on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail .
The Shire of Merredin is a local government area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about 250 kilometres (155 mi) east of Perth, the state capital. Its seat of government is the town of Merredin, where 2,804 of the Shire's 3,595 residents live. The Shire covers an area of 3,300 square kilometres (1,274 sq mi).
The State Register of Heritage Places is maintained by the Heritage Council of Western Australia. As of 2024 [update] , 99 places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Merredin , [ 1 ] of which 15 are on the State Register of Heritage Places.
View of the Bruce Rock Merredin Road, 2014. Highways and main roads in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia form the basis of a road network, which is primarily used by the mining, agriculture, and tourism industries. [1] [2] Main Roads Western Australia maintains and controls these major roads, with offices based in Northam and Narrogin ...
A second act, the Wickepin-Merredin Railway Act 1911, assented to in 16 February 1911, authorised the construction of the railway line extension from Wickepin to Merredin. [3] The line was built in separate sections over five years: [4] Narrogin to Wickepin - 16 February 1909 [5] Bruce Rock to Merredin - 22 December 1913; Wickepin to Corrigin ...
The original Merredin station opened in 1895. It was an important station on the Eastern Goldfields Railway, being the junction station for a number of lines to locations in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions.
In 1954, the state government of Western Australia had compiled a list of loss-making railway operations, of which the Wyalkatchem to Merredin section of line was one, having had a total expenditure of almost four times its earnings in the financial year to June 1953, £A 76,607 expenditure versus earnings of £A 20,787.
Nangeenan is a small townsite west of Merredin on Great Eastern Highway, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia (WA). It has rail siding founded in 1898. People moved into the town shortly after. Nangeenan was officially recognized as a townsite in 1905. [2] It has a local hall which was built in 1912. [2]