Boulder railway station was part of the Boulder loopline, a railway that commenced at the

Kalgoorlie railway station Kalgoorlie railway station is the most eastern attended station in Western Australia, located at the eastern terminus of the Eastern Goldfields Railway. It serves the city of Kalgoorlie. Beyond Kalgoorlie, the line continues east as the Trans-A ...

and travelled south for the purpose of transporting workers to the mines on the Golden Mile in

Kalgoorlie-Boulder Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area include ...

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. In its early days it was also known as the Boulder City Station. Pressure in the early 1900s was for the loopline to be developed, and it was operational by 1903. The loopline in its original form was closed in the 1950s, but the station building and portions of the original loopline remain. For a period prior to the expansion of the Kalgoorlie

Super Pit gold mine The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until 2016 when it was surpassed by the Newmont Boddington gold mine also in Western Australia. The Super Pit is located off the Goldfields ...

the loopline railway was able to have operations on part of the original railway. Recent expansion of the Super Pit has erased most of its former route, but the Goldfields loopline railway is headquartered at the station and in 2015 the

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allocated funds to rebuild the line. The railway station operates currently as a museum and revenue raiser for the Loopline organisation. The railway station forecourt, across from the Hamilton and Burt Street roundabout, houses the Boulder war memorial.

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{{Reflist, 30em Disused railway stations in Western Australia City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder Railway stations in Australia opened in 1897 State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder