List of closed Perth railway stations

This is a list of stations that have been closed since the building of railways in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia.

Mundaring Line

In some cases there are stations that were so effectively removed that there are no traces left, such as Bellevue. However at Mundaring and Darlington concrete platform edges remain.

Although Mundaring Branch Railway stations were closed in 1954, it was not until the 1960s that the line was formally closed, and the line and stations removed after that.

Metropolitan lines

The lines to Karragullen along the Upper Darling Range Railway, and to Chidlow (via Parkerville or Mundaring) were considered to be part of the metropolitan service, by the Western Australian Government Railways administration at the time they were operating.

Section closures

In some cases single stations were closed for logistical reasons; generally it was a group of stations when a section of railway was closed.

1881-1930

• Fremantle railway station at Cliff Street (1881-1907), demolished upon the construction of the new Fremantle railway station at Market St.^[1]
• East Fremantle (1881-1907), rebuilt 1886, removed upon the construction of the new Fremantle railway station at Market St.^[2][3][4]

1930-1949

• Bushmead, Upper Darling Range line, closed to traffic in July 1949, due to the 1949 Australian coal strike^[5]
• Ridge Hill, Upper Darling Range
• Gooseberry Hill, Upper Darling Range
• Kalamunda, Upper Darling Range
• South Kalamunda, Upper Darling Range
• Walliston, Upper Darling Range
• Bickley, Upper Darling Range
• Carmel, Upper Darling Range
• Turner's Siding, Upper Darling Range
• Pickering Brook, Upper Darling Range
• Canning Mills, Upper Darling Range
• Karragullen, Upper Darling Range

1950-1966

• Mundaring Weir line, closed 14 November 1952^[6]
• Whatley, Bayswater, terminus of the Belmont spur from 1885 to 1897 until construction of the Belmont Bridge. Closed January 1957 when fire damage to the bridge resulted in line closure^[7][8]
• Belmont, closed January 1957 after fire damaged the bridge over the Swan River^[6]

Eastern Railway First Route (Mundaring Loop)

Traffic ceased on the Mundaring Loop between Bellevue and Mount Helena in 1954 before it was officially closed by parliament in 1966.^[9]

• Greenmount, stayed open for Mountain Quarry, Boya until 1 January 1966^[9]
• Boya
• Darlington
• Glen Forrest
• Nyaania
• Mahogany Creek
• Zamia
• Mundaring
• Sawyers Valley
• Mount Helena

Armadale Line

• Canning Park Racecourse was closed in 1952,^[6] accessed via a siding from Maddington, then later truncated to a 100 m siding for the loading of blue metal from Swan Quarry, in Orange Grove. Closed and removed by 1975.

Eastern Railway Second Route

The Second Route closed on 13 February 1966.

• Midland Junction
• Bellevue
• Helena Vale
• Swan View
• National Park
• Hovea
• Parkerville
• Stoneville
• Chidlow

1966-2000

South Beach station

America's Cup defence

The 1987 America's Cup was defended at Fremantle and a number of stations were closed on the 1906 era line to Robbs Jetty and Spearwood line.

• Esplanade
• Success Harbour
• Robbs Jetty
• South Beach
• Spearwood
• Leighton, opened November 1922, closed 28 July 1991. This station closed when the North Fremantle station was relocated further north of its original position. It was named after Leighton's Crossing, which was named for Mrs Ann Leighton, the crossing gatekeeper in the late 1880s.
• Stokely was situated on the Armadale line between Maddington and Gosnells at the Albany Highway crossing.
• West Perth on the east side of the West Perth Subway, which served the Perth Metropolitan Markets, was closed. A new station, on the west side of the subway, was opened on 18 June 1986 as West Perth. Its name was changed to City West on 19 November 1987.

2000-present

• Lathlain (ALN) Armadale Line, closed 3 February 2003
• Belmont Park (ABP) Armadale Line, closed 13 October 2013^[10]

Unknown date

Higham, on the Armadale line between Cannington and Kenwick at William Street, renamed Beckenham around 1970.

Tredale, after Armadale station on the Armadale line and built to service Armadale Senior High School, closed in the mid 1980s.

Wellard station was near the current Kwinana Freeway and railway underpass. This is not to be confused with the current Wellard station on the Mandurah line which opened in 2007.

Naval Base once had a train station to serve the factory workers for the Alcoa Alumina refinery.

For some considerable time there was a spur from the Midland line, terminating at a station adjacent to Ascot Racecourse. This line left the main line around Meltham, crossing the Swan River via a timber bridge about 1 km upstream from Garratt Rd. The spur line was closed some time around the early 1950s.

Resources

• A useful map drawn by J. Austin showing all rail services intact as of 1949 is found in Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA page 48. The list of closures is in table form on pages 49 and 50.
• Higham, G.J. 'Where WAS that? : an historical gazetteer of Western Australia' Winthrop, W.A. : Geoproject Solutions Pty Ltd, 2006. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-9758024-0-2
• Watson, Lindsay The Railway History Of Midland Junction : Commemorating The Centenary Of Midland Junction, 1895-1995 Swan View, W.A : L & S Drafting in association with the Shire of Swan and the Western Australian Light Railway Preservation Association, [1995]
• Watson, Lindsay.Midland Junction Railway Station Western rails, Vol 9, no.4(July 1987), p. 10-12
• Verney, Terry 'Thru Midland' The WESTLAND issue 218, March 2003 p. 4

References

1. "Fremantle Railway Station". The West Australian (Perth, WA). 2 July 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
2. "Government Gazette". The Herald (Fremantle, WA). 24 September 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
3. "Fremantle Muncipality [sic]". The West Australian (Perth, WA). 4 February 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
4. "The East Fremantle Railway Station". The West Australian (Perth, WA). 10 October 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
5. "Complaints about new railway bill". The West Australian (Perth, WA). 1 December 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
6. Finlayson, Don (1986) Steam around PerthARHS WA p.49
7. "Bayswater". The Daily News (Perth, WA). 17 January 1914. p. 14. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
8. "Bayswater Road Board". The West Australian (Perth, WA). 21 June 1923. p. 8. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
9. Quinlan, Howard & Newland, John R. (2000) Australian Railway Routes 1854-2000 ISBN 0-909650-49-7 WN45, page 66
10. Perth's Belmont Park station to close in October in preparation for new stadium station Urbanlyst 2 September 2013