Midland Railway of Western Australia

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The Midland Railway Company was a private railway built on the land-selection principle that ran from Midland Junction near the capital city of Perth, Western Australia to a location south of the port of Geraldton.

The Western Australian Government Railways later built a parallel line about 50km further east.

The line was acquired by the Government Railways in 1964.

In 2002 as the earlier original Midland Railway Company business was no longer extant, the South Spur Railway resurrected the name for the Restaurant train business that runs the Spirit of the West.

[edit] Workshops

The Midland Railway established its workshops and headquarters at Midland Junction. Later on, in 1906, the Government Railways relocated their workshops from its overcrowded site at Fremantle to Midland also.

The site of the Midland Railway Company Workshops (a different and separate workshops north west and the other side of the main rail corridor from the Midland Railway Workshops and marshalling yard (which actually worked across the Great Eastern Highway next to the town Post Office) is now the location of the Centrepoint shopping centre and its car-park.

[edit] Reference

• Gunzburg, Adrian The Midland Railway Company of Western Australia - Locomotives ISBN 0-909340-27-7

(It includes a condensed history of the Company from 1886 to 1964)