The Prospector at Kellerberrin with the Goldfields water pipeline in the foreground & the CBH grain receival point in the background
Overview
Owner
Public Transport Authority
Termini
Northam
Kalgoorlie
Service
Operator(s)
Arc Infrastructure
History
1 July 1894: opened Northam to Southern Cross
1 July 1896: opened Southern Cross to Boorabbin 1 January 1897: opened Boorabbin to Kalgoorlie February 1966: Bellevue to Northam added gauge and changed route 1968: Northam to Kalgoorlie, replaced narrow gauge with standard gauge and changed route
Technical
Line length
373 kilometres
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) dual gauge
Old gauge
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
The Eastern Goldfields Railway was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.[1]
It is part of the interstate standard gauge railway between Perth and the rest of Australia.
^Souvenir brochure 60th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the railway to Coolgardie 23 March 1896, [Coolgardie], 1956, retrieved 5 March 2012
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