Perth marshalling yard (also known as Perth Yard) was a railway
marshalling yard
A classification yard ( American and Canadian English ( Canadian National Railway use)), marshalling yard ( British, Hong Kong, Indian, Australian, and Canadian English ( Canadian Pacific Railway use)) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a ra ...
to the immediate west of
Perth railway station
Perth railway station is the largest station on the Transperth network, serving the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It serves as an interchange between the Airport, Armadale, Fremantle, Joondalup, Mandurah and Midland ...
in Perth, Western Australia and east of
West Perth railway station.
The origins and development of the yard can be seen in considerations of the 1899
Royal Commission into the early stages of city railway traffic and the related joint select committee on the bridges over
William Street (the
Horseshoe Bridge
The Horseshoe Bridge in Perth, Western Australia is a traffic bridge that connects the Perth CBD to Northbridge, carrying William Street. It was constructed in 1904 to pass over the Fremantle railway line, with the horseshoe shape designed to f ...
) and
Melbourne Road (which did not eventuate).
It can also be considered to be the railway land between the Horseshoe Bridge and the West Perth subway.
It preceded the
Leighton
Leighton may refer to:
Places
In Australia:
* Leighton, Western Australia, a beachside locality
In the United Kingdom:
*Leighton, Cambridgeshire
*Leighton, Cheshire
*Leighton, North Yorkshire
**Leighton Reservoir
* Leighton, Shropshire
*Leighto ...
and
Forrestfield railway yards, and was in use until the development of the Forrestfield yard in the 1970s.
The marshalling yard included access to the
Perth Metropolitan Markets
The Perth Metropolitan Markets were a fruit and vegetable wholesale markets located at 840 (Lots 500-504) Wellington Street in West Perth from 1929 to 1989, when they moved to their current site in Canning Vale.
The markets were originally es ...
and other adjacent industrial sites.
Most newspaper reports about the yard during its active years tended to be about accidents.
Operationally, because of the proximity of the Perth railway station, a number of
signal boxes were required to facilitate traffic into the yard and the interaction with regular services on the
Fremantle railway line
The Fremantle line is a suburban railway and service in Western Australia that connects the central business district (CBD) of Perth with Fremantle.
History
The railway on which the service runs opened on 1 March 1881 as the first suburban rai ...
, as well as the Perth station until the reduction of services in the 1970s.
The land occupied by the marshalling yard is now part of the
Perth City Link
Perth City Link is an urban renewal and redevelopment project in Perth, Western Australia.
The projectbounded by the Mitchell Freeway, Wellington Street, the Horseshoe Bridge and Roe Street is on land that was once the Perth/City railway yard ...
project.
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Perth City Link
Former buildings and structures in Perth, Western Australia
Rail yards in Australia