South Beach railway station was a railway station on the Transperth network. It was located on the Fremantle line, 22 kilometres from Perth station in South Fremantle.

History

On 22 October 1898, the Fremantle line was extended south from

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for ...

to Robbs Jetty. For the staging of the

1987 America's Cup The 1987 America's Cup was the twenty-sixth challenge for the America's Cup. The American challenger '' Stars & Stripes 87'', sailed by Dennis Conner, beat the Australian defender '' Kookaburra III'', sailed by Iain Murray, in a four-race swee ...

, the existing narrow and standard gauge tracks were combined as one

dual gauge In railway engineering, "gauge" is the transverse distance between the inner surfaces of the heads of two rails, which for the vast majority of railway lines is the number of rails in place. However, it is sometimes necessary for track to c ...

line with three temporary stations erected, one of which was South Beach. Between October 1986 and February 1987, the

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operated a daily service on this section of the line with a W class steam locomotive as the ''Spinnaker Run''. This was supplemented by Transperth special services. Having not been used since, the station was demolished in September 2018.

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Cockburn - Fremantle track layout
SA Track & Signal

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