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  2. Coolgardie, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, 558 kilometres (347 mi) east of the state capital, Perth.It has a population of approximately 850 people. [2]Although Coolgardie is now known to most Western Australians as a tourist town and a mining ghost town, it was once the third largest town in Western Australia (after Perth and Fremantle).

  3. Scaddan, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Scaddan is a small town and locality in Western Australia located 783 kilometres (487 mi) east of Perth situated just off the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway between Norseman and Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The Kendall Road, Speddingup East and Truslove Townsite Nature Reserves are located within Scaddan.

  4. Eastern Goldfields Railway - Wikipedia

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    A third act, the Coolgardie–Kalgoorlie Railway Act 1895, assented to on 2 October 1895, authorised construction of a railway line from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. [8] The Eastern Railway opened in stages from Perth to Northam in the 1890s, and the Eastern Goldfields Railway extended this line through semi-desert to the Eastern Goldfields. [9] [10]

  5. Great Eastern Highway - Wikipedia

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    Traffic in the Goldfields was light, with an average daily traffic of 44 vehicles between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, and 33 from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. The road was completely sealed by 1953. [48]: 151–52 Between 1954 and 1956, sections of the highway between Perth and Southern Cross were improved. The works included increasing the ...

  6. Merredin, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Kurrawang, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Kurrawang is a town in Western Australia between Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie just off Great Eastern Highway in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. The town was first established as a railway station in the early 1900s on the Eastern line to Kalgoorlie. The area was also a junction of the timber lines in the region.

  8. Kambalda, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Kambalda is situated in a semi-arid environment on the land of the Galaagu people, approximately 75 kilometres (47 mi) southeast of Coolgardie and 616 kilometres (383 mi) east of Perth. Kambalda's determination to keep as much native flora as possible separates them from other similar mining towns. Kambalda West is approximately 4 km (2.5 mi ...

  9. Widgiemooltha, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Coolgardie-Esperance Hwy now bypasses the original townsite. In August 2015, the only evidence of the original township was the remains of the hotel. In the 1890s gold was discovered in the area and the townsite was gazetted in 1897 as Widgemooltha , the spelling being amended to the current form in 1944. [ 3 ]