Bellevue railway station (also known as Bellevue Junction) was a
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Perth
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suburb of
Bellevue Bellevue means "beautiful view" in French. It may refer to:
Placenames
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* Bellevue, Western Australia
* Bellevue Hill, New South Wales
* Bellevue, Queensland
* Bellevue, Glebe, an historic house in Sydney, New South Wales
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Swan View
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and Parkerville to rejoin the original line at Mount Helena. The first route remained open.
Bellevue station was built in the late 1890s on the site of 24 Mile Siding, 2.1 kilometres east of
Midland Junction
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with an island platform.
On 2 July 1900, a 400-metre line from Bellevue to
Helena Vale Racecourse
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opened. This closed on 17 April 1963.
The 17 kilometre section of the first route between Mountain Quarry and Mount Helena closed on 24 January 1954, with the final 4.3 kilometre section from Mountain Quarry closed on 31 December 1965.The Avon Valley Deviation ''
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Bellevue was for considerable periods of its history the terminus of metropolitan passenger services from
Perth
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. Exceptions after the closing of the Mundaring Branch Railway in 1954, were when the Koongamia station construction saw re-use of the defunct Mundaring Branch Railway between 1960 and 1962. It was also served by long-distance trains to Chidlow and Northam.
Operations in the vicinity of the western part of the Bellevue railway station were considered to be part of the
Midland Junction
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marshalling area in later years of operation. Services to Bellevue station were withdrawn on 31 December 1965 and the station closed.
Proposed new station
As part of the
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project, it is proposed to extend
Transperth
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's Midland line services to Bellevue which will require a new station to be built.