Upper Darling Range Railway
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For the Upper Darling region of NSW and Queensland, see Darling River.
The Upper Darling Range Railway (also known as the Upper Darling Range Branch) was a branch railway from Midland Junction, Western Australia, that rose up the southern side of the Helena Valley and on to the Darling Scarp via the Kalamunda Zig Zag. At the time of construction it was the only section of railway in Western Australia to have had a zig zag formation.
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Upper Darling Range Railway | |
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Overview | |
Status | Dismantled |
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System | Western Australian Government Railways |
History | |
Opened | July 1891 |
Closed | 22 July 1949 |
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Line length | 35 kilometres |
Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) |
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