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The Belmont Railway Line was a branch railway in Western Australia that extended from the Eastern Railway at Bayswater to cross the Swan River to Belmont near the Ascot Racecourse. The line closed in 1956.
The line was also known as the Belmont Spur line,[1] Belmont Branch, and Perth Racecourse Railway.[2][3]
- ^ Bayswater - Ascot [i.e. Belmont] Railway Spur Line, 1900, retrieved 13 August 2024
- ^ "Racecourse Railway Traffic". Sporting Life : Dryblower's Journal. Vol. 1, no. 36. Western Australia. 16 December 1905. p. 4. Retrieved 21 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ P.W.D. WA plan 1864, SROWA record -https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/belmont-branch-railway-plan-section-drawings-etc-cce-16046-26-78