(Closed to the public. Please view from a safe distance.)

Visitors please note: This is still an active freight railway line. For your own safety, do not cross the railway tracks to view the platform.

The remains of the Railway Station Platform are located to the west of the State Hotel on the freight railway line that connects Leonora and Esperance.

The Eastern Goldfields passenger line between Kalgoorlie and Leonora was completed in 1902, with a station built in Gwalia for the convenience of the local residents at a time when few people owned motor cars.

In addition, the Sons of Gwalia Mine management constructed a woodline railway to transport the mulga timber needed to fuel the mine’s steam and producer gas engines.

The woodline also utilised the railway station, and its 20-inch rail gauge ran to the west and south of Gwalia for up to 112 kilometres, covering a total area of 1,280 square kilometres.

The platform is 50 metres in length with ramped ends and the platform surface is remnant stone with a single rusted telegraph pole remaining on its edge. A second platform and the platform canopy were removed when construction of the standard line gauge began.

Special trains were sent from Kalgoorlie to transport residents from Gwalia when the Sons of Gwalia mine shut in December 1963. Most of the miners who lost their jobs with the mine’s closure quickly found work in the mines of Kalgoorlie and Boulder.