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The single-track Trans-Australian Railway at Cook, once a major servicing point. When continuous welded rail, reinforced concrete sleepers and spring rail fasteners were installed on top of deeper ballast, maintenance requirements were drastically reduced. Contractors, replacing onsite maintenance crews, did not need permanent accommodation, so ...
A third act, the Coolgardie–Kalgoorlie Railway Act 1895, assented to on 2 October 1895, authorised construction of a railway line from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. [8] The Eastern Railway opened in stages from Perth to Northam in the 1890s, and the Eastern Goldfields Railway extended this line through semi-desert to the Eastern Goldfields. [9] [10]
Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie.A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia.
Construction of the railway station and yard was begun in the late 1890s, as part of the extension of the Eastern Goldfields Railway from Coolgardie in January 1897. [2] The station was formally opened by the Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gerard Smith KCMG, at a ceremony held on the station platform on 8 September 1896. [3]
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.
Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, 558 kilometres (347 mi) east of the state capital, Perth.It has a population of approximately 850 people. [2]Although Coolgardie is now known to most Western Australians as a tourist town and a mining ghost town, it was once the third largest town in Western Australia (after Perth and Fremantle).
In 1896, the line was extended east to Coolgardie. [1] It became a junction station when a line to Wyalkatchem opened. [2] The immediate stations north were Corinthian, and Keane to the north, and Ghooli to the east. [3] When a new standard gauge Eastern Goldfields Railway was built, it bypassed the town.
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.