Walkaway, Western Australia
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Walkaway - a corruption of the native "Wagga wah" - referring to the bend in the nearby Greenough River, was the name given to the railway station when a line was built from Geraldton in 1887. In 1894 it was linked with Midland Junction by the building of a private line - that of the Midland Railway Coy., constructed by an engineer and later the first General Manager of the Company, E Keane. With the railway and an expanding agricultural area, the township grew until with the dieselisation of the railway systems, and the take-over by the State of the Midland Railway in 1964, decline set in. This was also accentuated by the gradual absorption of the original smallholdings into the larger holdings of today's farming demands.
[edit] Wind Farm
Fifty-four turbines standing 80 metres high make up the Walkaway wind farm, near Geraldton. The wind farm was officially opened on August 20th, 2005.
They produce 90 megawatts of electricity at full capacity, which is only one megawatt less than Australia's largest wind farm at South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
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