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Welshpool is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located mostly within the City of Canning and partially within the Town of Victoria Park. The area is one of the main industrial areas of Perth, along with Kewdale , Kwinana Beach , Henderson , Malaga , O'Connor , Canning Vale and Osborne Park .
Welshpool was a railway station on the Transperth network. It was located on the Armadale and Thornlie lines, 9.5 kilometres from Perth Station serving the suburbs of Welshpool and Bentley , Western Australia.
Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia.Although the road is now split in two, having had its western and eastern sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it remains Welshpool's second most important road (after Orrong Road), and the highest quality access road for the Darling Scarp.
East Cannington is bounded by the Armadale railway line to the southwest, Thomas and Gibbs Streets to the northwest, Welshpool Road to the north and Lacey Street to the southeast. It is at the eastern fringe of urban settlement in the City of Canning, with only semi-rural parts of Kenwick and Wattle Grove between the suburb and the Lesmurdie ...
A freight railway was constructed between the Midland line west of the Midland Junction railway station and the Armadale line at Welshpool in 1957. [9] The line provided access to the Kewdale Intermodal Facility - a major (if not the main) rail freight terminal in Perth. The section between Kewdale and Welshpool is now closed.
The sixth and last factory at Welshpool in Perth (originally to be designated SAAF No. 7) received the designation of SAAF No. 6. In 1940 the workforce at Footscray grew from a few hundred men to 6,000 men and women at its peak. Employees worked 12-hour shifts for six days a week.
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.
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