Kalgoorlie railway station

Kalgoorlie
Eastern end of the station in November 1930
Location	Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie
Coordinates	30°44′46″S 121°28′01″E / 30.7460°S 121.4669°E / -30.7460; 121.4669Coordinates: 30°44′46″S 121°28′01″E / 30.7460°S 121.4669°E / -30.7460; 121.4669
Elevation	1,234 feet (376 m)
Owned by	Transwa
Operated by	Transwa
Line(s)	Eastern Goldfields Railway Trans-Australian Railway
Distance	653 kilometres from Perth
Platforms	3 (1 side, 2 bay)
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	8 September 1896
Services
Preceding station   Transwa Trains network   Following station Bonnie Vale towards East Perth Prospector Terminus Preceding station   Great Southern Railway   Following station Southern Cross towards East Perth Indian Pacific Rawlinna towards Sydney

Kalgoorlie railway station is the most eastern attended station in Western Australia, located at the eastern terminus of the Eastern Goldfields Railway. It serves the city of Kalgoorlie. Beyond Kalgoorlie the line continues east as the Trans-Australian Railway.

Construction of the railway station and yard was begun in the late 1890s, as part of the extension of the Eastern Goldfields Railway from Coolgardie in January 1897. The station was formally opened by the Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gerard Smith KCMG, at a ceremony held on the station platform on 8 September 1896.

In the early stages of the development of railways in the Eastern Goldfields it was the junction for the following railways:

In 1917, Kalgoorlie became a break-of-gauge station when the Commonwealth Railways' standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Port Augusta opened. This ceased on 3 August 1968, when the Eastern Goldfields Railway was gauge converted.

The platform is the longest in Western Australia. At either end of the main platform are two bays; the one to the east (adjacent to the former water tank and signal box) was where services from the Boulder loop line passenger services arrived, and the western bay is where the current Prospector services terminate. The eastern end bay was also where passengers embarked and disembarked when the Trans-Australian service terminated in Kalgoorlie, prior to the extension of the standard gauge line to Perth.

Due to it being the western terminus of the Trans-Australian Railway, the station has been the location of a number of commemorations and ceremonies from the opening of that railway in 1917 and since.