Esperance branch railway

Esperance branch railway
The former station master's office in Esperance
Overview
Termini
  • Coolgardie (NG) and Kalgoorlie (SG)
  • Esperance
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Old gaugeNarrow gauge
Highest elevation378.8 m (1,243 ft)
Esperance branch railway
Main locations
Map
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300km
200miles
Esperance
5
Esperance
Salmon Gums
4
Salmon Gums
Norseman
3
Norseman
Coolgardie
2
Coolgardie
Kalgoorlie
1
Kalgoorlie
Route map

0km
Kalgoorlie
Eastern Goldfields Railway
(0km)
Coolgardie
Original rail alignment (closed 1960s)
(11) Burbanks
(16) Londonderry
19 Hampton Siding
22 Hampton
60 Kambalda
68 Redmine spur
89 Roysalts spur
(57) Logans Find
93 Lefroy Siding
(75) Widgiemooltha (NG)
101 Widgiemooltha (SG)
131 Higginsville
134 Higginsville Siding
163 Pioneer
189 Norseman
193 Cowan
193 Cowan Minerals
201 Lake Kirk
212 Goodia
223 Bromus
238 Daniell
252 Beete
262 Kumarl
274 Dowak
285 Salmon Gums
288 Salmon Gums grain loop
296 Circle Loop
305 Red Lake
314 Grass Patch
326 Truslove
338 Scaddan
347 Speddingup
354 Flemming
362 Gibson
372 Gibson siding
374 Caitup
378 Shark Lake
386 Collier
Esperance...
389 Goods Yard
390 Grain depot
390 Fuel depot
391 Fuel jetty
392 Esperance Station
393 km Esperance Port

The Esperance branch railway is a railway from Kalgoorlie to the port of Esperance in Western Australia.

It was lobbied for by Esperance residents to be linked into the WAGR railway network to provide land transport to their region.

In the strictest terms it was an extension of the Eastern Goldfields Railway,[1][2] but following the Standard Gauge project in the 1960s it has run from Kalgoorlie to Esperance since the mid-1970s, as Coolgardie is no longer connected by rail.

  1. ^ Western Australian Government Railways (1954), Report of the Western Australian Government Railways Commission for the year ended, W.H. Wyatt, retrieved 5 July 2012 Appendix F, page 60 – 'Eastern Goldfields Railway'
  2. ^ [Scrapbook] of newspaper cuttings May 1900-December 1916 relating to Coolgardie-Esperance Railway, 1900, retrieved 18 April 2022