Yerbillon, Western Australia

Yerbillon, Western Australia was the location of Number 5 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 11 on the pipeline.[1] It was also located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway.[2]

It was the location of a railway accident in 1902.[3]

It was located between number 4 pumping station at Merredin, and number 6 at Ghouli.[4][5][6]

References

  1. No.5 Pumping Station Yerbillon, 13/11/02, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  2. Baldwin engine off the line at Yerbillon, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  3. "Railway Collision". The Northam Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 760. Western Australia. 18 June 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 11 March 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Lorman, Edna; Hutchinson, Joan (2004), Yerbillon: recollections of childhood years at Yerbillon, the number 5 pumping station of the Goldfields water supply system in Western Australia during the early years of the 20th century, Perth, W.A.: J. Hutchinson, retrieved 3 March 2016
  5. Blundell, Oswald; Hartley, Richard G. (2002), Interview with Oswald Blundell (sound recording), Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply History Project, Water Corporation of Western Australia, retrieved 18 October 2016
  6. Geary, Annie Margaret; Barton, Ruth (1980), Interview with Annie Geary (sound recording), retrieved 18 October 2016
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