Williams Station, c Mid 1970's
Opened : 1905
Original
Name :
Williams (1905 - 1906)
Marjidin (1906)
Williams (1906 to about 1995) (Closed as a Staff Station on the 4th of March 1987)
Station Facts : The Narrogin to Darkan Railway was approved in 1905, to make it’s way via, Williams, by the Western Australian State Government.
Shortly after the railway was completed a Station was built south east of the town centre of Williams. Originally the station opened as Williams, however
in 1906 the State Government, renamed the station to Marjidin, because that was the name of a farm to the south of Richmond St (which runs along the
western side of the rail reserve at the Station Site). The locals protested to the government for the renaming of the station back to Williams to coincide with
the renaming of the town. 6 months after the station was named Marjidin, it was changed back to Williams and about half a year later, so was the town.
I'm not sure what the original station building looked like at Williams, but before I can remember, the photo above, shows what Williams Station
looked like in the 1970's, what I remember of Williams Station, is a small shed like building simular to what is at Kirup Station (pictured below 1985).
Williams also had it's goods platform up until around 1990, there was a couple of loop tracks in the yard and a track running past the Wheat Silo at the east
end of the station yard. In around 1993, the station shed was demolished leaving only the scene in the second last photo. By about 1995, the track had
been pulled up in the station yard and to Narrogin, I think the track from Williams to Darkin, had been pulled up a few years earlier.
Today, much of the railway reserve between Williams and Narrogin has been sold off to private land owners, the station reserve land is being leased,
for livestock use, the old station masters house, is located directly across Richmond St from where the station master house used to be, another old
railway house was sold off around the late 1980's to a local farmer and now resides in a farm, used as a shearers shed. West of Williams along
the road to Darkin you can still see a lot of the old railway formation, with old sleepers dumped after the track was pulled up, the bridge across
Macdermott Brook still remains and can be seen from the Williams Narrogin Rd, just south of Richmond St, apart from that nothing remains to show
that the railway once passed through Williams.
Williams Station, from Richmond St, during the 1970's (left) and Williams Station, around 1977 (right)
Williams Station, 7th of March 1985.
The last days of the Railway in Williams, 14th of July 1995
Looking to the north of Williams Yard, By this time, the track from Narrogin to Williams
had atlead been severed at the site of the grain silo at Williams, 14th of July 1995.
Macdermott Brook Railway Bridge, Nov 1999
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Marjidin (1906)
Williams (1906 to about 1995) (Closed as a Staff Station on the 4th of March 1987)
Station Facts : The Narrogin to Darkan Railway was approved in 1905, to make it’s way via, Williams, by the Western Australian State Government.
Shortly after the railway was completed a Station was built south east of the town centre of Williams. Originally the station opened as Williams, however
in 1906 the State Government, renamed the station to Marjidin, because that was the name of a farm to the south of Richmond St (which runs along the
western side of the rail reserve at the Station Site). The locals protested to the government for the renaming of the station back to Williams to coincide with
the renaming of the town. 6 months after the station was named Marjidin, it was changed back to Williams and about half a year later, so was the town.
I'm not sure what the original station building looked like at Williams, but before I can remember, the photo above, shows what Williams Station
looked like in the 1970's, what I remember of Williams Station, is a small shed like building simular to what is at Kirup Station (pictured below 1985).
Williams also had it's goods platform up until around 1990, there was a couple of loop tracks in the yard and a track running past the Wheat Silo at the east
end of the station yard. In around 1993, the station shed was demolished leaving only the scene in the second last photo. By about 1995, the track had
been pulled up in the station yard and to Narrogin, I think the track from Williams to Darkin, had been pulled up a few years earlier.
Today, much of the railway reserve between Williams and Narrogin has been sold off to private land owners, the station reserve land is being leased,
for livestock use, the old station masters house, is located directly across Richmond St from where the station master house used to be, another old
railway house was sold off around the late 1980's to a local farmer and now resides in a farm, used as a shearers shed. West of Williams along
the road to Darkin you can still see a lot of the old railway formation, with old sleepers dumped after the track was pulled up, the bridge across
Macdermott Brook still remains and can be seen from the Williams Narrogin Rd, just south of Richmond St, apart from that nothing remains to show
that the railway once passed through Williams.
Williams Station, from Richmond St, during the 1970's (left) and Williams Station, around 1977 (right)
Williams Station, 7th of March 1985.
The last days of the Railway in Williams, 14th of July 1995
Williams Water
Tower and Grain Silo, which was at the Narrogin end of the
Yard, c mid 1970's.
Looking to the north of Williams Yard, By this time, the track from Narrogin to Williams
had atlead been severed at the site of the grain silo at Williams, 14th of July 1995.
Williams
Station Site, November 1999
Macdermott Brook Railway Bridge, Nov 1999
Thank you to Bruce Boyd and Phil
Melling and Jeff Austin, for the use of there photos
of Williams Station
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