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Yerbillon, Western Australia
Yerbillon, Western Australia was the location of Number 5 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 11 on the pipeline. It was also located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway. It was the location of a railway accident in 1902. It was located between number 4 pumping station at Merredin, and number 6 at Ghouli "Ghouli" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of the American science fiction television series ''The X-Files''. The episode was written and directed by James Wong. The tagline for this episode is "You see what I want you to see". Though .... References {{reflist Eastern Goldfields Railway Goldfields Water Supply Scheme Water supply pumping stations Shire of Yilgarn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in Perth to communities in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The project was commissioned in 1896 and completed in 1903. The pipeline continues to operate today, supplying water to over 100,000 people in over 33,000 households as well as mines, farms and other enterprises. Water scarcity During the early 1890s, thousands of settlers had travelled into the barren and dry desert centre of Western Australia seeking gold, but the existing infrastructure for the supply of water was non-existent, and an urgent need arose. Prior to the scheme, water condensers, irregular rain, and water trains were part of the range of sources. Railway dams were essential for water to supply locomotives to travel to the goldfields. Origins of the scheme Throughout the 1890s, water availability issues in Coolgardie and in the Kalgoorlie-Bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and Kalgoorlie. History The Eastern Railway opened in stages from Perth to Northam in the 1890s, and the Eastern Goldfields Railway extended this line through semi-desert to the Eastern Goldfields. It opened in stages between 1894 and 1897. * Northam to Southern Cross: (opened 1 July 1894) *Southern Cross to Boorabbin: (opened 1 July 1896) *Boorabbin to Kalgoorlie: (opened 1 January 1897) The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme pipeline was later constructed along the railway line. The chief engineer for both the railway and the pipeline was C. Y. O'Connor. In October 1917, the Commonwealth Railways' standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Port Augusta was completed through to Kalgoorlie, making it a break-of-gauge station. Branches At Kalgoorlie, lines branch off north to Malcolm and Leonora; and south t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northam Advertiser
''The Northam Advertiser'' was a newspaper published in Northam, Western Australia. It was published from 1895 to 1986. Between 1956 and 1959, it was titled the ''Northam Advertiser-News''. The editorial stance of the newspaper after its founding was studied by a Graylands Teachers College student in the 1960s, and the newspaper was involved in commentating upon the turbulent first ten years of the twentieth century in Western Australian politics following the "post- Forrest era". Digitisation Digitised editions of ''The Northam Advertiser'' from 1895 to 1915 and from 1948 to 1954 are available on Trove at the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Northam Advertiser Defunct newspapers pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merredin, Western Australia
Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway. It is located on the route of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and as a result is also on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail. It is connected by public transport to Perth via the'' Prospector'' and ''MerredinLink'' rail services. History Merredin's history varies from that of other wheat-belt towns in Western Australia in the sense that it started as a stopping place on the way to the goldfields. The first European explorer into the area was the Surveyor General J. S. Roe, who travelled through the region in 1836 but was not impressed by its dryness and the low rainfall. By the 1850s sandalwood cutters were in the area but there was little agriculture. It was not until Assistant Surveyor Charles Cooke Hunt explored the area in the period 1864–66 that it began to open up. Hunt saw the pastoral potential but realised th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghouli, Western Australia
Ghouli, Western Australia (also spelled Ghooli) was the location of Number 6 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 14 on the pipeline. It was also located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway, not far from Southern Cross. It was located between number 5 pumping station located at Yerbillon, and number 7 at Gilgai A gilgai is a small, ephemeral lake formed from a depression in the soil surface in expanding clay soils. Additionally, the term "gilgai" is used to refer to the overall micro-relief in such areas, consisting of mounds and depressions, not just th .... References {{reflist, 30em Eastern Goldfields Railway Goldfields Water Supply Scheme Water supply pumping stations Goldfields-Esperance Shire of Yilgarn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Supply Pumping Stations
Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, despite not providing food, energy or organic micronutrients. Its chemical formula, H2O, indicates that each of its molecules contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. The hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom at an angle of 104.45°. "Water" is also the name of the liquid state of H2O at standard temperature and pressure. A number of natural states of water exist. It forms precipitation in the form of rain and aerosols in the form of fog. Clouds consist of suspended droplets of water and ice, its solid state. When finely divided, crystalline ice may precipitate in the form of snow. The gaseous state of water is steam or water vapor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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