Built : 1886 (closed in 1971) Original Name : Helena Vale (1894 - 1885), Midland
Junction (1886 to 1962), Midland (1962 to 1968), Workshops (from 1968
to 1971) Station History : Midland Junction (may have been
referred to as Helena Vale at time of original planning), Midland
Junction was renamed to Midland Station in 1962 and then renamed to
Workshops in 1968, until the station was closed and demolished only
leaving the platform in 1971). The original Midland
Junction Station built in 1886,
was located closer to Guildford, approximately near the position where
West Midland Station now stands.How ever all evidence of the original
station have been lost for ever, because when
the duplication of the railway line from Perth to Midland took place in
1898, the stretch of track where the original
Midland Junction was, had to be raised on a embankment, (West Midland
Station is on this embankment) leaving only demolition as a fate for the original,
Junction station (the original Midland Junction station building was
relocated to Greenmount, to be used at the station
there). The Second Midland Junction
Station was built closer down towards, the
branch of the Canning Jarrah Timber Company's Line to Canning
Mills.
The Town of Midland was built
on the back of the railways, over the years, Midland has had numerous
railway lines departing from the area where Midland Junction Station is, there was
the original Eastern Railway Line's, via Mundaring and the Mahogany
Creek Deviation (via National Park), The Upper Darling Railway Line (canning Jarrah
Timber Company's Line), Midland Railways Line to Geraldton and
eventually the standard gauge line to Northam, via Toodyay, now these days, the Junction is
pretty much deserted.
Midland Junction, 6th February
1969
Midland
Junction, 6th February 1969
Midland
Junction Signal Cabin B, 3rd of October 1975
Midland
Junction Signal Cabin B, 3rd of October 1975
Thanks to Roderick Smith and
Jim Bond for their
photos of Midland Junction