Line(s) Eastern Structure type Ground | Platforms 2 (1 island) | |
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Location Railway Parade, Bellevue Owned by Western Australian Government Railways Operated by Western Australian Government Railways Owner Western Australian Government Railways | ||
Bellevue railway station (also known as Bellevue Junction) was a junction station located on the Eastern Railway in Bellevue, Western Australia.
History
Bellevue railway station (also known as Bellevue Junction) was an important junction station when the Eastern Railway first route passed through to Greenmount in the 1880s, when the second route passed through to Swan View, in the 1890s - until the closure of the two routes in 1966 when the station was removed. It was for many years the final railway station of the metropolitan operations, just one station after Midland Junction.
Prior to the First World War, facilities at the station were criticised
At the time of World War I - the station had a short branch line to the Helena Vale railway station at the Helena Vale Racecourse where troops alighted to march across to the Blackboy Hill army camp where they were stationed before they were taken to Fremantle where their ship traveled to the theatres of war. The station was also a short distance south of the Darling Range Hotel on the then York Road.
It was for considerable periods of its history the terminus of the Eastern Railway metropolitan railway passenger services. Exceptions after the closing of the Mundaring Branch Railway in 1954 - were when the Koongamia station construction saw re-use of the defunct Mundaring Branch Railway between 1960 and 1962. The line as far as Boya to the Mountain Quarry was kept open and in service while the quarry remained open.
Operations in the vicinity of the western part of the Bellevue railway station were considered to be part of the Midland Junction marshalling area in later years of operation.
The station was an island platform station - and in the construction of alignment of the third route of the Eastern railway - commonly known as the Avon Valley route - all vestiges of the railway station were removed.