Westrail Railway Road Workshops

Statement of Significance

DEMOLISHED
The Railway Road Workshops represent an era when trains were widely used as an economic and popular mode of moving goods and people. The workshops were built to service the trains. In the post World-War II period, bus services were introduced to replace passenger trains and the workshops were then used to service the buses.

Physical Description

DEMOLISHED

History

Government Railway Road Workshops were built c 1947. Here, Government Railway employees maintained and serviced buses and railway road vehicles that operated throughout the South West.

The Workshops were built close to the railway marshalling yards complex, which occupied a large area of land on the eastern fringe of the central business district.

By the 1950s, Bunbury’s population was growing and the railway system was proving inadequate. By 1948, the Government run bus service was proving much more successful than the dated railway system.

The railway road vehicles transported ilmenite from the mineral sands mines to storage areas at the Port of Bunbury for a time.

In 2001, the place was being used for commercial purposes. By this time, it had been partially demolished to make way for street realignment in the area (the original street pattern was at 45 degrees to the present north south pattern). By 2006, the workshops had been demolished.

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