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The railway line on which the siding existed from the 1920s to the 1950s, the Flinders Bay branch railway was the location of a railway derailment in the Yallingup Siding area in 1928. [5] [6] The City of Busselton and the locality of Yallingup Siding are located on the traditional land of the Wardandi (also spelled Wadandi) people of the ...
Shearing sheds (or wool sheds) are large sheds located on sheep stations to accommodate large scale sheep shearing activities. In countries where large numbers of sheep are kept for wool, sometimes many thousands in a flock, shearing sheds are vital to house the necessary shearing equipment , and to ensure that the shearers and /or crutchers ...
Yallingup is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, 256 kilometres (159 mi) south of Perth. Yallingup is a popular tourist destination because of its beaches and limestone caves, and proximity to Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park .
The shearing shed, built around the turn-of-the-century, is one of the great shearing sheds in the South-East along with 'Mount Schank' and 'Glencoe'. The property of 'Coola' is associated with the South Australian Company and with Captain John Ellis , a prominent early South Australian, and his descendants.
The current building dates to 1909 and was extended in 1915 but the jarrah slabs of the original homestead are still in use as the floor of the shearing shed. [ 5 ] The heritage-listed Willow Springs Timber Mill and town site is located at the point where the localities of East Nannup, Donnelly River and Carlotta meet. [ 6 ]
Cordillo Downs or Cordillo Downs Station is both a pastoral lease currently operating as a cattle station and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. It is located about 116 kilometres (72 mi) north of Innamincka and 155 kilometres (96 mi) south east of Birdsville. The name and boundaries of the locality were created on 26 April 2013 for ...
Australia's largest operating sheep station, Rawlinna Station, covering an area of 1,011,714 hectares (2,500,000 acres) – about the area of the Sydney conurbation – adjoins the railway line. It runs up to 65,000 Merino sheep in a good season. Mustering and droving are done on motorbikes and in aircraft to locate them, beginning in January ...
The shearing shed shown in this illustration c. 1890 has walls of both vertical and horizontal slabs; the latter may have been a later addition. The horizontal method had the advantage that shorter slabs (known as 'billets') of timber could be used, but more uprights had to be erected and mortised to hold these.