Kewdale Freight Terminal is a large intermodal rail facility in the

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

suburb of Kewdale, Western Australia. Branching off the Kwinana freight railway, it was built in the 1960s to replace the Perth marshalling yard. It initially comprised ten

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...

(1067mm) and seven

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(1435mm) arrival roads. The first narrow gauge sidings opened in early 1967; the first standard gauge sidings in November 1968.

Users

* Pacific National yard and depot * UGL Rail to service the carriages used on the '' Indian Pacific'' * Transwa depot opened April 2005 to service WDA/WDB/WDC class railcars used on '' AvonLink'' and '' Prospector'' services * BP fuel siding *Sadliers Transport siding *Country Carriers siding * BlueScope yard, moved to new facility in Forrestfield late 2005

Redevelopment plans

All rail freight in and out of this terminal is moved on a single

track that crosses Daddow Road, and this

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has become a congestion headache for road users in the industrial area. In November 2005 the

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announced it had allocated $11.5 million for the construction of an overpass at the level crossing.State injects $22m in transport roads in Kewdale-Kwinana and SW
''Western Australian Business News'' 9 November 2005 Now it is completed. Rail operators Aurizon, Pacific National and Transwa share common sections of the yard which can also lead to congestion. Apart from the departure road, the yard is unsignalled. Track occupation of the common sections - north service road, eastern diagonal, and western diagonal - is manually managed by radio communications with Arc Infrastructure Eastern Train Control.

References

{{Reflist Economy of Perth, Western Australia Rail infrastructure in Western Australia Rail yards in Australia Railway freight terminals in Australia Transport infrastructure completed in 1968 1967 establishments in Australia