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Merredin Town Hall, Merredin Clock Tower Building: Merredin Railway Station Group: 1577: Lot 1503: Todd Street: Merredin: Merredin Railway Station Museum, Old Railway Station: Merredin Post Office: 1578: Corner: Barrack & Bates Street: Merredin
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.
A second act, the Wickepin-Merredin Railway Act 1911, assented to in 16 February 1911, authorised the construction of the railway line extension from Wickepin to Merredin. [3] The line was built in separate sections over five years: [4] Narrogin to Wickepin - 16 February 1909 [5] Bruce Rock to Merredin - 22 December 1913; Wickepin to Corrigin ...
The Shire of Merredin is a local government area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about 250 kilometres (155 mi) east of Perth, the state capital. Its seat of government is the town of Merredin, where 2,804 of the Shire's 3,595 residents live. The Shire covers an area of 3,300 square kilometres (1,274 sq mi).
The original Merredin station opened in 1895. It was an important station on the Eastern Goldfields Railway , being the junction station for a number of lines to locations in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions.
Merredin College is a government comprehensive primary and secondary day and boarding school, located in Merredin, a regional centre in the Wheatbelt region, 260 kilometres (162 mi) east of Perth, Western Australia.
Mukinbudin is a small town in the north eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 298 kilometres (185 mi) east of Perth and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Merredin near Lake Campion. It is the main town in the Shire of Mukinbudin. At the 2021 Australian census, Mukinbudin had a population of 336.
In the years prior to the First World War Wickepin was an important service centre, featuring three banks, blacksmiths and other businesses as well as a post office and railway buildings. Dorothy Hewett, most famous author of the wheatbelt, lived as a child on a prosperous farm about 15 km north-east of the town between 1923 and 1935. Her ...