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Ballajura Railway Station, Perth
Ballajura railway station is a suburban railway station on the Ellenbrook line in Perth, Western Australia. The station is located east of Tonkin Highway, north of Marshall Road, and west of Beechboro Road North, within the rural area of Whiteman, and near the residential areas of Ballajura, Beechboro, and Bennett Springs. Ballajura station consists of an island platform with entrances to the north and south via a bridge. The contract for the construction of the Ellenbrook line was awarded to Laing O'Rourke in October 2020 and construction began in 2022. By July 2024, construction on the station was complete. The Ellenbrook line opened on 8 December 2024. There are to be five trains per hour stopping at Ballajura station during peak, reducing to four trains per hour outside peak. A journey to Perth station is expected to take 21 minutes. Feeder bus routes will serve the surrounding area. Description Ballajura station is in Whiteman, a north-western suburb of Perth, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beechboro Road North
Beechboro Road is a north–south arterial road located in the northeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Morley and Bayswater with areas further north. Until the construction of the nearby section of Tonkin Highway between 1984 and 1992, and later, during the NorthLink WA road project between 2016 and 2019, Beechboro Road was one of northeastern Perth's most important routes. The road is discontinuous at Tonkin Highway, with the section from Tonkin Highway to Walter Road officially known as Beechboro Road North, and the section running through Bayswater as Beechboro Road South. Beechboro Road North is allocated State Route 53 for almost its entire length. Prior to 2019, this allocation extended northwards to Gnangara Road, but had since been truncated at Tonkin Highway and Hepburn Avenue due to the NorthLink WA road project. Route description Beechboro Road South Beechboro Road South runs entirely through Bayswater and is long. The road is mostly a tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banksia
''Banksia'' is a genus of around 170 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes, and woody fruiting "cones" and heads. ''Banksias'' range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall. They are found in a wide variety of landscapes: sclerophyll forest, (occasionally) rainforest, shrubland, and some more arid landscapes, though not in Australia's deserts. Heavy producers of nectar, banksias are a vital part of the food chain in the Australian bush. They are an important food source for nectarivorous animals, including birds, bats, rats, possums, stingless bees and a host of invertebrates. Further, they are of economic importance to Australia's nursery and cut flower industries. However, these plants are threatened by a number of processes including land clearing, frequent burning and disease, and a number of species ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noongar People
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast. There are 14 different groups in the Noongar cultural bloc: Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wadandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari. The Noongar people refer to their land as . The members of the collective Noongar cultural bloc descend from people who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible. What is now classified as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama–Nyungan language family. Contemporary Noongar speak Australian Aboriginal English (a dialect of the English language) laced with Noongar words and occasionally inflected by its grammar. Most contemporary Noongar trace their ancestry to one or more of these groups. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiteman Park
Whiteman Park is a bushland area located north of Perth, Western Australia. The park is in the suburb of Whiteman, Western Australia, Whiteman, in the Swan Valley (Western Australia), Swan Valley in the upper reaches of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River. It encompasses the source of Bennett Brook - an important place of the Nyoongar people, and a source of mythology of the Wagyl and stories about Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal occupancy of the area. Whiteman Park is known for its biodiversity, including more than 450 endemic plants and more than 120 vertebrate animals, some of which are rare and endangered. More than 17% of Western Australian bird species occur in Whiteman Park, including migratory birds attracted to the habitat provided by Bennett Brook and associated wetlands, including Grogan's Swamp, a Conservation Category Wetland. The state government purchased the land from a number of private owners in 1978 to protect the underlying aquifer as a dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaga, Western Australia
Malaga () is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of the CBD, in the City of Swan. Early real estate development occurred in the decade before the first world war. Etymology The suburb is thought to be named after either the Spanish city of Málaga, or the Aboriginal word ''malaga'', which means "ironstone". The name was approved in 1969. Demographics Malaga is an industrial precinct. Currently there are 2409 businesses with a workforce of over 12,000 people. The 2006 census listed only 28 people living in the suburb. Significant facilities The suburb contains a Transperth bus depot operated by Path Transit. Transport Bus * 351 Ballajura Station to Galleria Bus Station – serves Marshall Road and Malaga Drive * 360 Alexander Heights Shopping Centre to Perth Busport (limited stops) – serves Alexander Drive * 361 Alexander Heights Shopping Centre to Galleria Bus Station – serves Illawarra Crescent and Alexander Drive * 362 Ballajura Statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Planning Commission
The Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) is an independent statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia that exists to coordinate strategic and statutory planning for future urban, rural, and regional land use. The WAPC fulfils various statutory responsibilities first established in 1955. The authority is responsible for expenditure arising from the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax. The role of the commission is to advise the Minister for Planning, make statutory decisions on a range of planning application types, approve subdivision applications, implement the state planning framework, and prepare and review region schemes to cater for anticipated growth. All staffing is provided by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage to which it also delegates many statutory powers. History The Planning and Development Act of 1928 established a Town Planning Board as the central authority responsible for approving subdivision and town planning schemes pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Stand
A bus stand, also called a bus bay, or bus stance, is a designated parking location where a bus or coach waits out of service between scheduled public transport services. 'Bus stand' is also often an alternative name for specific bus stops inside a bus station. Bus stands are seen at different busy spots, like school or college gates, markets, medical centres and the crossing point(s) of two or more roads. A bus stand is usually employed to allow a bus to lay over at a bus terminus, without giving the appearance of being in service, or blocking the stop from use by other buses that are in service. Bus stands also allow short-term parking for driver changes or driver breaks. In the simplest case, a bus turnout type of bus stop is extended, and buses can lay over away from the stop if necessary. In locations where buses cannot remain stationary for long, nearby but separate bus stands may be provided where other bus parking is not conveniently located. Due to their public transp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transperth C-series Train
The Transperth C-series trains are a class of electric multiple units part of Alstom's X'Trapolis family of trains for Transperth that are being delivered as part of Metronet (Western Australia), Metronet. The trains are operating on Railways in Perth, Perth's suburban rail network and entered service on the Yanchep line, Yanchep and Mandurah line, Mandurah lines on 8 April 2024. History In April 2018, the Public Transport Authority (Western Australia), Public Transport Authority called for expressions of interest to build 41 6-carriage electric multiple units. Three consortia were shortlisted to bid: * Alstom * Bombardier Transportation, Bombardier / Downer Rail, EDI Rail * Momentum West, a consortium of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF and UGL Rail, UGL On 18 August 2019, Alstom was announced as the successful bidder. The trains will be assembled in Bellevue, Western Australia, Bellevue. 17 sets will be delivered to provide rolling stock for network extension ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transperth B-series Train
The B-series trains are a class of electric multiple unit built by Downer Rail in Maryborough, Queensland for Transperth Train Operations, Transperth between 2004 and 2019. Design Each set consists of three semi-permanently coupled cars designed to be used in either a three-car or six-car formation. The trains were designed to use AC motors rather than DC traction motors like the previous Transperth A-series train, A-series, and to have a maximum service speed of . In each set, IGBT inverters power eight AC traction motors distributed along the three cars, providing a 66% motorised unit. These trains are similar in design to Queensland Rail's Interurban multiple unit#160 series, IMU160/Suburban multiple unit#260 series, SMU260 EMU, V/Line VLocity DMU, and Adelaide Metro 4000 class EMU trains. The B series trains were originally built concurrently with the V/Line VLocity. History Perth's first electrified trains, the two-car Transperth A-series train, A-series, entered ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
