These pages focus on Geraldton & the Midwest in Western Australia
and the rail scene in this area. Rail operations centre on the Australian Railroad Group's operations at Narngulu (which is
situated on the outskirts of the Port City of Geraldton). Trains haul Grain from two lines the former Midland Railway and
the South Line (the former Northam to Mullewa Railway) now open as far south as Maya via Mullewa, Morawa & Perenjori.
The Mineral Sands trains run from the Eneabba branch Via Dongara to Narngulu, the iron ore trains from Mullewa to Geraldton
Port & coal all the way from Collie in the south west to Narngulu.
In 2005 there was a new railway constructed between
Narngulu and the Port of Geraldton. Once this line opened in September of that year the old foreshore railway was decommissioned
and removed, all photos showing trains on the old line in our earlier galleries are now part of history.
Mount Gibson
Mining opened an iron ore mine north of Mullewa in 2004 and the Australian Railroad Group haul up to 3.0 million tonnes of
ore per year from Mullewa to Geraldton.
Into 2009 & the future even more iron ore is proposed to be on rail in the
area with estimates of up 45 million tonnes + proposed from a number of mines.
A big thanks to all who work in the rail industry for allowing us
to photograph our favourite subject trains.
We hope you enjoy our pages and remember safety first when near rail lines.
These pages feature the photos of the Melling boys with their father Phil Melling.
You may note some differencies with numbering/ classification on locomotives this is due to a new numbering
scheme and further modifications to existing locos eg. DA 1571 now DAZ 1901.
Link to our RailWA Fotopic Site
AB1501/P2510/P2509 haul an empty grain train near Beachlands towards
Narngulu on 24 January 2009.
1906/DA1575 are seen leaving the Geraldton Port precinct with an empty grain train on 22 September 2005. A photo at this location
is not now possible due to fencing.
ARG liveried 1907 & AWR liveried A1514 combine
to haul a loaded mineral sands near Narngulu on 20 March 2004. Showing how the railscene continues to change, since this
photo was taken A1514 was renumbered to 1204 and transferred to Port Lincoln and 1907 also relocated to Whyalla so both are
now in South Australia, ownership of the locos has also been transferred.
The then English Electric Company Australian manufacturing
plant produced these two locomotives for the former Western Australian Government Railways Commision. R1905/RA1909 haul a
talc/grain train near Arrino heading for Geraldton on 7 October 1983. Both locos have been scapped and talc is no longer hauled
by rail.
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