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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]
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).
Coolgardie–Norseman Railway Act 1906, assented to on 14 December 1906, authorised the construction of the railway line from Coolgardie to Norseman. [ 15 ] Esperance Northwards Railway Act 1914 , assented to on 10 February 1915, authorised construction of a 97-kilometre-long (60 mi) railway line northwards from Esperance.
[note 1] A Commonwealth Railways map marked the western end as 793 miles (1,276 km) from Port Augusta, between Loongana and Nurina, and states: "The 'Long Straight' extends from this point for a distance of 297 miles and terminates at the 496 miles [sic] between Ooldea and Watson."
Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie.A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia.
The road was gazetted as Coolgardie–Esperance Highway on 16 August 1957, [d] [2] but remained unsealed until 1960, when a 3.7 metre wide (single-lane) seal was completed between Coolgardie and Esperance. [56] In 1974 the road was upgraded further and a two lane seal completed was between Coolgardie and Norseman. [56]
Coolgardie–Esperance Highway (National Highway 94 north, National Route 1 south) – Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Perth, Esperance: Western terminus of highway and National Highway 1: 0.3: 0.19: Esperance branch railway: Eucla: 707: 439: Eucla–Reid Road – Eucla, Eucla Airport: 720: 450: Eyre Highway (National Highway 1) Eastern terminus of ...
Many major roads in Perth [4] and in rural Western Australia [5] are not assigned a route number. Not many routes have been added in the Perth and Peel regions since the 1990s with the exceptions including the Graham Farmer Freeway in 2000 and Mandjoogoordap Drive in 2010. A subsequent review of the system was undertaken in 2024 which resulted ...