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- Kep Track Home Page
New home page for the Kep Track Web Site
- Weir to Mundaring
This first 8 km of the Kep Track is the start of the goldfields water supply pipeline. The railway branchline was built to connect the Mundaring Weir dam site with the main railway line from Perth.
- Mundaring to Sawyers
This Mundaring to Sawyers section of the Kep Track, along the original route of the Eastern Railway, gives an appreciation of Western Australia's railway, pipeline and settlement history .
- Sawyers to Mount Helena
This Sawyers to Mount Helena webpage describes a section of the Kep Track. A water supply pipeline, and railway, were vital to the settlement of Western Australia's goldfields.
- Mount Helena to Chidlow
The Mount Helena to Chidlow section of the Kep Track has associations with CY O’Connor's tragic suicide. The railway line was a means of transport for the goldfields water supply pipes.
- Chidlow to Wooroloo
The settlements of both Chidlow and Wooroloo grew up because of the availability of water. Chidlow’s Well was described by WA’s Governor Broome as “a point in the wilderness” in 1884
- Wooroloo to Wundowie
Water and timber were reasons for settlement of Wooroloo and Wundowie on the Kep Track. Water from the goldfields pipeline was vital for Western Australia’s first iron and steel industry.
- Wundowie to Bakers Hill
The Wundowie to Bakers Hill section of Kep Track is where railway cuttings were made through solid rock, mainly by hand. The railway encouraged villages to grow at sidings.
- Bakers Hill to Clackline
This Bakers Hill to Clackline webpage describes a section of the Kep Track though it is more about railway heritage rather than pipeline heritage.
- Clackline to West Northam tanks
The Clackline to West Northam tanks section of Kep Track offers a quite difference experience. You’ll be beside the pipeline itself in parts and be able to see the original steel pipe.
- West Northam tanks to Northam
West Northam tanks to Northam. Northam lines the banks of the Avon River and in this 8 km section of Kep Track you’ll learn its importance to the goldfields prior to the pipeline.
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