Merredin railway station
railway station in Western Australia
Merredin railway station is located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway in Western Australia. It is in the town of Merredin.
History
The original Merredin station opened in 1895. It was an important station on the Eastern Goldfields Railway, being the junction station for a number of lines to locations in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions.
The main eastern railway connected with Northam to the west, and to Southern Cross to the east.
The narrow gauge lines that connected with Merredin were:
Narrogin from the western end of the station, Bruce Rock to the south (then to Narrogin).
from the north of the station area, Nungarin (to Wyalkatchem) to the north.
from the east of the station area, Kondinin to the south (for a line to Narrogin).
When the main eastern railway line was converted to standard gauge in the late 1960s, a new station was built diagonally opposite.
The original station is used as a museum.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Merredin railway station” as railway station in Western Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20718060. Authority coordinates are -31.483, 118.277. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1895.
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