| Mooterdine Western Australia | |
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  Mooterdine Location in Western Australia | |
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| Coordinates | 32°44′56″S116°48′07″E / 32.749°S 116.802°E Coordinates: 32°44′56″S116°48′07″E / 32.749°S 116.802°E |
| Elevation | 257 m (843 ft) |
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Wandering |
| State electorate(s) | Wagin |
| Federal division(s) | O'Connor |
Mooterdine is a locality in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, east of Boddington. It is located within the Shire of Wandering. [1]
The locality was originally a railway station on the now closed Boddington to Narrogin section of the Pinjarra to Narrogin railway. The station was established to serve returned soldiers living on the Noombling Estate, a short distance to the north east, and takes its name from the nearby Mooterdine Pool in the Hotham River. [2]
As constructed, the station had a goods siding on the southern side of the main line with a loading ramp situated between the two tracks. It also had stockyards, a telephone shed and a parcel facility. [2]
Both the station and the Boddington to Narrogin line were opened on 18 September 1926 and officially closed in September 1961, although the last revenue train on the line had run on 1 May 1957. The rails through Mooterdine were lifted in May 1963. [3]
In 2012 the CBH Group name its second CBH class locomotive, after this locality – which was a part of the older extended system of grain lines in the Wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia.
Narrogin is a large town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Perth on the Great Southern Highway between Pingelly and Wagin. In the age of steam engines, Narrogin was one of the largest railway operation hubs in the southern part of Western Australia.
The Hotham Valley Tourist Railway is a tourist and heritage railway in the Peel region of Western Australia.
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The South Western Railway, also known as the South West Main Line, is the main railway route between Perth and Bunbury in Western Australia.
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Meelon is a small townsite in the Peel region of Western Australia, located between Pinjarra and Dwellingup within the Shire of Murray. At the 2011 census, Meelon had a population of 224.
The Pinjarra to Narrogin railway was a 153 kilometre cross-country railway line built between the towns of Pinjarra and Narrogin in Western Australia.
The wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia were, in most cases, a network of railway lines in Western Australia that primarily served the Wheatbelt region.
Western Australian Government Railways railway system during its peak operational time in the 1930s to 1950s was a large system of over 6,400 kilometres (4,000 mi) of railway line.
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