Railway Adventures Across Australia [Part 4 - Western Australia]

Presented by Scott McGregor.
Railway Adventures Across Australia is a 1999 series of train enthusiast adventures across each of the states of Australia.

[@DonaldPocock]

Worked for a few years on the Trans/nullarbor and loved it. Cook was a good town.

[@nathanroberts355]

I been on these iron ore trains from wombat Junction tomprice to parker point dampier in late 1980.s

[@worland322575269]

9:43 thus creating the world's longest stretch of dead-straight Railway Track which spans 478km between Watson in South Australia and Nurina in Western Australia.

[@nathanroberts355]

My great uncle Patrick hannan found gold at Kalgoorlie in late 1800.s

[@issievdhorst]

seen. ONLY 3 people who live in Cook. WOW

[@nathanroberts355]

In grade 6 camp from mt tom price iron ore mining trains to dampier 1988

[@nathanroberts355]

I been toogey stayed at Pilbara camp school in dampier

[@worland322575269]

10:25 by an Irish Vagabond by the name of Paddy Hannan.

[@worland322575269]

10:32 most of them came from Victoria where they were escaping the fallout from the Eureka Stockade and the harsh gold-licensing laws in force in Victoria at the time.

[@worland322575269]

8:54 apparently some West Australians weren't sold because WA voted 3 - 1 to secede, but that was quickly knocked on the head by the UK Parliament which caused a lot of anti-British sentiment amongst the people of Western Australia.