The Trans-Australian Railway

Trans-Australian Railway

The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia...

 line has a very ambiguous term, Nullarbor

Nullarbor (disambiguation)

Nullarbor * Nullarbor Plain* Nullarbor, South AustraliaIt is sometimes the area between Norseman, Western Australia and Ceduna, South Australia and be known as The Nullarbor....

. This list is relative to the 1917 construction of railway line that went from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Kalgoorlie, known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, and is located east-northeast of state capital Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway...

 to Port Augusta, South Australia

Port Augusta, South Australia

-Electricity generation:Electricity is generated at the Playford B and Northern power stations from brown coal mined at Leigh Creek, 250 km to the north...

 

Western Australia

• Kalgoorlie
• Parkeston
  Parkeston, Western Australia
  Parkeston is a suburb of the city of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, located 3 km east of the city centre. At the 2006 census, Parkeston had a population of 69.- Railway :...
  
  
• Golden Ridge
  Golden Ridge, Western Australia
  Golden Ridge is an abandoned town in Western Australia located east of Perth just of the Mount Monger Road in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia....
  
  
• Curtin
• Karonie
• Chifley Siding
• Coonana
• Zanthus
  Zanthus, Western Australia
  Zanthus is a remote outpost on the Trans-Australian rail line approximately east of the regional city of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.Zanthus has a crossing loop on the line...
  
  
• Kitchener
• Boonderoo
• 913 mile
• Naretha
• Rawlinna
  Rawlinna, Western Australia
  Rawlinna is a remote locality and railway siding on the Trans-Australian Railway in Western Australia. It is also the site of a small lime mine, in which the lime is extracted from the limestone that is prevalent in the area...
  
  
• Haig
• Nurina
• Loongana
  Loongana, Western Australia
  Loongana is a remote siding on the transcontinental railway line in the Australian state of Western Australia. The area was formerly the site of a lime mine and processing plant...
  
  
• Mundrabilla
• Forrest
  Forrest, Western Australia
  Forrest is a small settlement and railway station on the Trans-Australian Railway in Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Forrest had a population of 18....
  
  
• 632 miles (Reid?)
• Deakin

South Australia

• Hughes
• Denman
• Cook
  Cook, South Australia
  Cook is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around.-History:...
  
  
• Fisher
• O'Malley
• Watson
• Ooldea
  Ooldea, South Australia
  Ooldea is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway...
  
  
• Immarna
• Barton (Barton Siding)
• Mount Christie siding
• Wynbring
• Lyons
• Malbooma
• Tarcoola
  Tarcoola railway station, South Australia
  Tarcoola is a station on the Trans-Australian Railway. It serves the former mining town of Tarcoola in South Australia. Since the Central Australia Railway was rebuilt as standard gauge in 1980, it has been the site of the junction of the line to Alice Springs and later to Darwin as the...
  
  
• 245 miles
• Kingoonya
  Kingoonya, South Australia
  Kingoonya is a small settlement in the far north of the Australian state of South Australia. It was established in the early 1900s as a railway support town on the line extending west and played a significant role in the construction of the Trans-Australian Railway...
  
  
• Coondambo
• Wirraminna
• Lake Hart
• Pimba
  Pimba, South Australia
  Pimba is a small settlement lying on the transcontinental railway line in the Australian state of South Australia. It lies at the junction of the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs and the road to Woomera, Roxby Downs and Andamooka . It is 480 km from Adelaide...
  
  
• Wirrappa
• Woocalla
• Bookaloo
• Hesso
• Port Augusta
  Port Augusta, South Australia
  -Electricity generation:Electricity is generated at the Playford B and Northern power stations from brown coal mined at Leigh Creek, 250 km to the north...
  
  

Access

Most of the locations along the railway line exist in reserves with limited or no access allowable, or are positioned next to a road that has been closed and has no access possible: the few locations that are accessible have either landing strips for access by plane and roads that run north from the Eyre Highway

Eyre Highway

The Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highway 1/A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first to...

. Most of the identified locations in this list are ruins or have very few services or facilities.

See also

• Trans-Australian Railway##Names of stopping places for a cluster of related station names
• Indian Pacific
• Nullarbor Plain
  Nullarbor Plain
  The Nullarbor Plain is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single piece of limestone, and occupies an area of about...