List of closed Perth railway stations

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This is a list of stations that have been closed and since demolished since the building of the Railway in metropolitan Perth Western Australia.

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[edit] Mundaring Line

In some cases there are stations that were so effectively removed that there are no traces left -such as Bellevue. However in Mundaring and Darlington, concrete platform edges remain.

It must be noted that although Mundaring Branch Railway stations were closed in 1954, it was not until the 1960s that the line was closed in Parliament, and the line and stations removed after that.

[edit] Metropolitan lines

The lines to Karragullen along the Upper Darling Range Railway, and to Chidlow (via Parkerville or Mundaring) were considered to be part of the metropolitan service, by the WAGR administration at the time they were operating.

[edit] Section closures

In some cases single stations have been closed for logistic reasons - generally it is a group of stations when a section of railway has been closed.

[edit] Closed 1930 - 1949

  • Bushmead Upper Darling Range
  • Kalamunda Upper Darling Range
  • Pickering Brook Upper Darling Range
  • Walliston Upper Darling Range

[edit] Closed 1950 - 1966

  • Mundaring Weir Mundaring Weir line, closed November 14 1952 [1]
  • Belmont, closed January 1957 after fire damaged bridge over Swan River [2]

[edit] Eastern Railway First Route (Mundaring Loop)

Traffic ceased on the Mundaring Loop between Bellevue and Mount Helena in 1954 before it was officially finally closed by parliament in 1966.[3]

  • Greenmount, stayed open for Mountain Quarry, Boya until 1st January 1966 [4]
  • Boya
  • Darlington
  • Glen Forrest
  • Nyaania
  • Mahogany Creek
  • Zamia
  • Mundaring
  • Sawyers Valley
  • Mount Helena

[edit] Armadale Line

  • Canning Park Racecourse was closed in 1952 [5], accessed via a siding from Maddington, then later truncated to a 100m siding for the loading of blue metal from Swan Quarry, in Orange Grove. Closed and removed by 1975.

[edit] Eastern Railway Second Route

The Second Route closed on 13 February 1966.

[edit] Closed 1966 - 2000

South Beach station.
South Beach station.

[edit] America's Cup defence

In 1987 the America's Cup was defended at Fremantle - and a number of stations were created on the 1906 era line to Robb's Jetty and Spearwood line

  • Leighton, closed 28 July 1991. This station closed when the North Fremantle railway station was relocated further north of its original position. It was named not after a suburb, but after Leighton Beach.
  • Stokely was situated on the Armadale Line between Maddington and Gosnells at the Albany Highway crossing.
  • West Perth renamed City West

[edit] Closed 2000-Present

[edit] Unknown date

Higham on the Armadale Line renamed Beckenham around 1970. Tredale after Armadale station on the Armadale line closed in the mid 1980's.

[edit] Resources

  • A useful map drawn by J. Austin showing all rail services intact as of 1949 is found in Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA page 48. The list of closures is in table form on pages 49 and 50.
  • Higham, G.J. 'Where WAS that? : an historical gazetteer of Western Australia' Winthrop, W.A. : Geoproject Solutions Pty Ltd, 2006. 2nd ed. ISBN 0975802402
  • Watson, Lindsay The Railway History Of Midland Junction : Commemorating The Centenary Of Midland Junction, 1895-1995 Swan View, W.A : L & S Drafting in association with the Shire of Swan and the Western Australian Light Railway Preservation Association, [1995]
  • Watson, Lindsay.Midland Junction Railway Station Western rails, Vol 9, no.4(July 1987), p.10-12
  • Verney, Terry 'Thru Midland' The WESTLAND issue 218, March 2003 p.4

[edit] References

  1. ^ Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA p.49
  2. ^ Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA p.49
  3. ^ * Quinlan, Howard & Newland, John R. (2000) Australian Railway Routes 1854-2000 ISBN 0909650497 WN45, page 66
  4. ^ * Quinlan, Howard & Newland, John R. (2000) Australian Railway Routes 1854-2000 ISBN 0909650497 WN45 page 66
  5. ^ Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA p.49

[edit] See also