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| Eastern Goldfields Railway | |
|---|---|
 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 | |
| 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, historically also referred to as the Fremantle-Kalgoorlie Railway,[1] was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.[2]
It is part of the interstate standard gauge railway between Perth and the rest of Australia.
- ^ "Fremantle-Kalgoorlie (Merredin-Coolgardie Section) Railway Act 1912". www.legislation.wa.gov.au. Government of Western Australia. 10 October 1912. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Souvenir brochure 60th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the railway to Coolgardie 23 March 1896, [Coolgardie], 1956, retrieved 5 March 2012