| 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, 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 a part of the interstate standard gauge railway between Perth and the rest of Australia.
Originally, at construction, the railway line was referred to as the Yilgarn Railway, named after the Yilgarn Godlfields, but this was changed to Eastern Goldfields Railway around 1899 or 1900.[2] It had also been referred to as the Fremantle–Kalgoorlie Railway.[3] Operationally in the WAGR era, the line was considered to be between Northam and Kalgoorlie, despite historical material extending the name to Perth.[4]
Operator Arc has Merredin as the location of the start of the EGR in their network operations.[5]
- ^ Souvenir brochure 60th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the railway to Coolgardie 23 March 1896, [Coolgardie], 1956, retrieved 5 March 2012
- ^ "Boulder Railway Station, Subway & Loopline". inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Fremantle–Kalgoorlie (Merredin–Coolgardie Section) Railway Act 1912". www.legislation.wa.gov.au. Government of Western Australia. 10 October 1912. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Rome, E.G (1907), Eastern Goldfields Railway in the Darling Range near Swan View, retrieved 12 October 2024 The Perth to Northam line has been the Eastern Railway (Western Australia) since construction
- ^ "Network Control Boundaries" (PDF). Retrieved 12 October 2024.