Midland Junction Railway Station
The Midland Junction railway station was an important junction station on the Eastern Railway of Western Australia until its closure in 1966. Its history started on 1 March 1886 when Frederick Broome, then Governor of Western Australia, turned the first sod. It was the first railway station in Midland Junction and was replaced by the Midland station west, across the tracks from the Midland Railway Workshops. Junction era Midland Junction was an aptly named locality and railway station, as it had the following services leaving from its platforms: * the Upper Darling Range Railway or Zig Zag railway to Kalamunda until 1949 * Mundaring (and Mundaring Weir until 1952) until 1954 * Bellevue until 1965 * Chidlow until 1965 * Midland Railway of Western Australia until 1963 It was in effect the point at which all rail services in the Western Australian network had to pass byexcept for the South West line to Bunbury. It was also a stopping point for Western Australian Gov ...
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