Yerbillon, Western Australia

Locality in 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][2]

It was also located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway.[3] It was the location of a railway accident in 1902.[4]

It was located between number 4 pumping station at Merredin, and number 6 at Ghouli.[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ No.5 Pumping Station Yerbillon, 13/11/02, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  2. ^ "No Title". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. Vol. VIII and XIII, no. 671. Western Australia. 17 September 1907. p. 26. Retrieved 14 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Baldwin engine off the line at Yerbillon, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Forty Years Ago". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 48, no. 12, 576. Western Australia. 26 October 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 14 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ Geary, Annie Margaret; Barton, Ruth (1980), Interview with Annie Geary (sound recording), retrieved 18 October 2016