Midland Junction
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Midland Junction, May, 2002
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.

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Midland Junction, 6th February 1969

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Midland Junction, 6th February 1969

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Midland Junction Signal Cabin B, 3rd of October 1975

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Midland Junction Signal Cabin B, 3rd of October 1975

Thanks to Roderick Smith and Jim Bond for their photos of Midland Junction


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