Boulder railway station
| Boulder railway station | |
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.jpg) Boulder railway station in 2016 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Heritage listed building |
| Location | Boulder, Western Australia |
| Coordinates | 30°46′58″S 121°29′32″E / 30.7827°S 121.4923°E |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Designated | 13 July 2001 |
| Reference no. | 4639 |
Boulder railway station was part of the Boulder loopline, a railway that commenced at the Kalgoorlie railway station and travelled south for the purpose of transporting workers to the mines on the Golden Mile in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia.
In its early days it was also known as the Boulder City Station.[1]
Pressure in the early 1900s was for the loopline to be developed,[2] and it was operational by 1903.[3]
The loopline in its original form was closed in the 1950s, but the station building and portions of the original loopline remain.
For a period prior to the expansion of the Kalgoorlie Super Pit gold mine the loopline railway was able to have operations on part of the original railway.[4]
Recent expansion of the Super Pit has erased most of its former route, but the Goldfields loopline railway is headquartered at the station and in 2015 the state government allocated funds to rebuild the line.[5]
The railway station operates currently as a museum and revenue raiser for the Loopline organisation.[6]
The railway station forecourt, across from the Hamilton and Burt Street roundabout, houses the Boulder war memorial.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Boulder City Station". The Evening Star. Vol. I, no. 106. Western Australia. 23 July 1898. p. 4. Retrieved 5 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Boulder Railway Station". The Evening Star. Vol. III, no. 1148. Western Australia. 9 January 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Boulder Station". The Evening Star. Vol. IV, no. 1586. Western Australia. 15 June 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 5 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Pether, W. T. (1976), Boulder Railway Station, 1976, retrieved 5 March 2017
- ^ Rebecca Curtin (11 July 2015). "Historic Golden Mile Loopline Railway from Kalgoorlie to Boulder in WA Goldfields set to live again". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Loopline Railway & Museum". Boulder Promotion & Development Association (Inc). Retrieved 6 March 2015.