Wiluna Station Yard, 2nd of September 2003
Wiluna
Station,
The goods platform, crane
and shed are still intact, only just however. The goods platform has
partly
been set on fire and the shed is in a bad state. I
found the old station
platform, to the east of the shed and goods
platform (right hand edge of photo). As the station platform is ground
level,
it has
quite
a bit of grass
growing over it's edges, but you can still see
the old wood lining on the track edge of the platform, plus some of the
last
bits of bitumen on
the platform. The
Station platform easily extends for around 100+
metres. The station yard is located on the southern end of town, just
off
the Goldfields
HWY, you can't miss
it as you can see the big brown goods shed,
rounding the bypass road bend heading south out of town on your left.
After my second visit to Wulina in Oct 2006, I discovered more reminders from Wiluna's Days of being the furtherest most outpost of the WAGR network. Such things as a high level platform to the south of the goods shed, this platform extends for around 50 to 60 metres, I have been informed this was the Coal stage loading point for Wiluna Loco, which was located across the tracks from this platform.
Also I found what look to be old fuel tank holders for diesel tanks, just north of the goods shed, on the town side of the track bed, plus some foundations of ruins of buldings not too far from the fuel tank holders, these Tank holders and building foundations made up the Shell Fuel Depot and had a seperate siding running past it.
The livestock pens and loading race, I was told that was located to the west of the station, on the way to Meekatharra, where the Wiluna Racecourse is.
Other information I came across was that at it's height, the railway line at Wiluna extended another few kilometres south of the station to the Ore Mine, which was the life blood of the town, till it closed down around 1950. Also at the mine was a tramway that ran for about a km or two. There was another suburb of Wiluna that ran ajacent to the railway line between the Station and the mine, this suburb was called Redhill and mainly consisted of miners quarters, today nothing
remains, except the hill.
Even though the rails are long gone from Wiluna (the line ceased operations in 1957, or there abouts), there is talk about a railway line being constructed from Wiluna to Leonora, for ore transportation, plus talk of another railway to Geraldton, possibly following parts of the old narrow gauge formation, So Wiluna has possibly some life left in it yet!.
Wiluna's Station Sign Board, 1972
Wiluna Station Goods Shed, 2nd of September 2003
Wiluna Station Goods Shed, 2nd of September 2003
Wiluna Station Goods Crane and platform, 2nd of September 2003
Coal Stage Platform, to the south of the station yard, 26th of October 2006
Coal Stage Platform, to the south of the station yard (left) and ruins of the Shell Fuel Depot to the north (right), 26th of October 2006
Old fuel tank stands (left) and ruins of the Shell Fuel Depot(right), to the north of the Station Yard, 26th of October 2006
After my second visit to Wulina in Oct 2006, I discovered more reminders from Wiluna's Days of being the furtherest most outpost of the WAGR network. Such things as a high level platform to the south of the goods shed, this platform extends for around 50 to 60 metres, I have been informed this was the Coal stage loading point for Wiluna Loco, which was located across the tracks from this platform.
Also I found what look to be old fuel tank holders for diesel tanks, just north of the goods shed, on the town side of the track bed, plus some foundations of ruins of buldings not too far from the fuel tank holders, these Tank holders and building foundations made up the Shell Fuel Depot and had a seperate siding running past it.
The livestock pens and loading race, I was told that was located to the west of the station, on the way to Meekatharra, where the Wiluna Racecourse is.
Other information I came across was that at it's height, the railway line at Wiluna extended another few kilometres south of the station to the Ore Mine, which was the life blood of the town, till it closed down around 1950. Also at the mine was a tramway that ran for about a km or two. There was another suburb of Wiluna that ran ajacent to the railway line between the Station and the mine, this suburb was called Redhill and mainly consisted of miners quarters, today nothing
remains, except the hill.
Even though the rails are long gone from Wiluna (the line ceased operations in 1957, or there abouts), there is talk about a railway line being constructed from Wiluna to Leonora, for ore transportation, plus talk of another railway to Geraldton, possibly following parts of the old narrow gauge formation, So Wiluna has possibly some life left in it yet!.
Wiluna's Station Sign Board, 1972
Wiluna Station Goods Shed, 2nd of September 2003
Wiluna Station Goods Shed, 2nd of September 2003
Wiluna Station Goods Crane and platform, 2nd of September 2003
The
site of where Wiluna Station's platform and station building once
stood, 2nd of September 2003
Coal Stage Platform, to the south of the station yard, 26th of October 2006
Coal Stage Platform, to the south of the station yard (left) and ruins of the Shell Fuel Depot to the north (right), 26th of October 2006
Old fuel tank stands (left) and ruins of the Shell Fuel Depot(right), to the north of the Station Yard, 26th of October 2006
Track
bed formation still evident to the north of the station yard, 26th of
October 2006
A timber trestle bridge a few miles west of Wiluna, 1998
A timber trestle bridge a few miles west of Wiluna, 1998
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