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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. [16] Esperance Northwards Railway Extension Act 1922, assented to on 30 December 1922, authorised the construction of a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) railway line extension to Salmon Gums.
In rail administration, lines were given generic titles such as the Eastern Railway and the South Western, rather than being named after their destination. Metropolitan – ER – Eastern Railway – suburban; Bunbury – SWR – South Western Railway; Kalgoorlie – EGR – Eastern Goldfields Railway; Mullewa – NR – Northern Railway
Transwa is Western Australia's regional public transport provider, linking 240 destinations, from Kalbarri in the north to Augusta in the south west to Esperance in the south east. The Transwa system provides transport between Perth and the major regional towns of Bunbury , Kalgoorlie , Northam , Geraldton and Albany .
Transwa is a division of the Western Australian government's Public Transport Authority.It is responsible for operating public transport in regional Western Australia. It has four train services: the Australind, which goes from Perth to Bunbury; the AvonLink, which goes from Midland to Northam; the MerredinLink, which goes from Midland to Merredin; and The Prospector, which goes from East ...
The first official standard gauge iron ore train from Koolyanobbing arrived at Kwinana on 10 July 1967. On 3 August 1968, the Koolyanobbing–Kalgoorlie section opened for freight trains and on 4 November 1968, the first through freight train from Port Pirie arrived in Perth. [20] [21]
In the 1960s standard (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)) gauge lines penetrated to Perth and Esperance and long distance heavy-haul railways were built in the Pilbara region by major iron mining companies, particularly BHP and Hamersley Iron. The Perth suburban lines were electrified and extended.
Perth's rail network is the third busiest in Australia, behind Sydney Trains and Metro Trains Melbourne. [ 104 ] The most used stations as of October 2017 are Perth and Perth Underground , with 38,159 boardings per weekday, Elizabeth Quay , with 11,860, Murdoch , with 7,969, Warwick , with 5,125, and Joondalup , with 4,791.
Transperth is the public transport system for Perth and surrounding areas in Western Australia.It is managed by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), a state government organisation, and consists of train, bus and ferry services.