Claremont Railway Yard Battery Box

1962
Overview

Two Safe Working Technicians, Stan Pitsikas kneeling and Jim Appleyard standing, with an open battery box in the Claremont railway yard. Stan Pitsikas is testing the cable terminals between the yard and the Signal Cabin at the station in preparation for the 1962 Royal Show. A goods train is in the background.

Historical information

Claremont Railway Station is 6 rail miles (10 kilometres) west of Perth on the Fremantle-Guildford line. The station opened 1st March 1881 and was was manned from September 1888 to 1 September 1979. Station Master Classification and Grades were C1.3 (1899), C1.6/2 (1905), G.5 (1913), C1.4 (1922, 1937, 1955). Other staff were the Night Officer, Assistant Station Master and Night Station Master. The station precinct consists of a group of buildings comprising the main station, a station master's house (limestone), and platform, island platform and waiting rooms (timber), overhead bridge connecting platforms, signal box (timber), and a goods shed (corrugated iron). Constructed to the design of George Temple Poole. The first station was established in March, 1881 and was known as Butler's Siding. Renamed Claremont Station in 1883, the station was moved to its present position in 1886. The railway station was closed in 1979 with the closure of the Perth-Fremantle line. The line was re-opened on the 29th July 1983. Claremont Railway Station is National Trust classified. It is the only Victorian era railway station operating in the metropolitan area. In 1979 Westrail planned to remove the signal box and central platform buildings because they were no longer required. Several parts of the original Station complex were already lost (including an overhead bridge, 2 toilet buildings, Platform No. 4, the cattle yard , the goods yards, gardens and gates and road crossover) when a battle by council and interested residents resulted in the retention of all the remaining station buildings.

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Stan Pitsikas, Jim Appleyard
Claremont Railway Yard
Source: Claremont Museum 05.200

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