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Perth railway station is the largest station on the Transperth network, serving the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It serves as an interchange between the Airport , Armadale , Ellenbrook, Fremantle , Midland , and Thornlie lines as well as Transwa 's Australind service.
Perth railway station in 2007. Platforms 1 (right) and 2. The station has seven active platforms, but they are split into two distinct sections: [9] Platforms 1 and 2 sit on the eastern side (the old Dundee & Perth Railway part of the station) and are the busiest in the station as they handle the Glasgow to Dundee and Aberdeen trains.
The Transperth rail network consists of eight lines. All lines meet at either Perth station or Perth Underground station. As of December 2021, the Transperth rail network is 181 kilometres (112 mi) long, the third largest in Australia. [68] The Fremantle, Midland, and Ellenbrook lines run as through services with each other. The Fremantle line ...
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 9 December 1998 [12] as Perth's first underground station. [13] [14] A number of new stations opened in the 2000s under the New MetroRail ...
Nicholson Road station was forecast to have 2,350 boardings per day in 2031 and Ranford Road station was forecast to have 1,985 boardings per day in 2031. 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) of new dual-track railway was to be constructed between Thornlie and Cockburn Central, using the pre-existing Glen Iris tunnel to enter the median of the Kwinana Freeway.
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 ...
For most of the years that the WAGR existed as that entity, main offices, and divisional offices and buildings were all within a short range of Perth railway station. Rationalisation of the diverse addresses and locations occurred with the construction of the East Perth Head Office building. Head office – East Perth
Tredale was situated on the South Western Railway 800 metres south of Armadale railway station, opened in 1956 as Armadale School siding, renamed Tredale in 1959, closed in 1989. [8] West Perth on the east side of the West Perth Subway, which served the Perth Metropolitan Markets, was closed. A new station, on the west side of the subway, was ...