Boorabbin was a location on the narrow gauge
Eastern Goldfields Railway
The Eastern Goldfields Railway was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie, Western Australia, Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
History
The Eastern Railway, Wester ...
in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
. It was half way between
Southern Cross
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and
Coolgardie.
It was the location of a water tank used during the era of steam power on the railways. Construction of the tank began in 1896; it had a capacity of five and a quarter million gallons.
The townsite was gazetted in 1898. It was named by C.C. Hunt in 1865.
It is in the area of the
Boorabbin National Park, and Boorabbin Rocks.
The locality was identified as the nearest to a tragedy on the
Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link ...
when three truck drivers were killed by bushfire across the highway in 2007.
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Towns in Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance