Golden Pipeline
A time capsule of water,
gold & Western Australia
A project from the National Trust of WA
A self-guided drive trail between the Perth Hills and Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields. Go with the Flow. Follow the water to discover more about the audacious goldfields water supply scheme and Engineer CY O’Connor.
“Future generations, I am quite certain will think of us and bless us for our far seeing patriotism, and it will be said of us, as Isaiah said of old, ‘They made a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert”
Cunderdin to Merredin See & Do Hunt's Well
Hunt’s Wells – Youndegin
Short diversions off Great Eastern Highway will take you to wells at Tammin, Old Doodlakine and Totadgin. But, if you want to visit the first in line of the wells for which Hunt was responsible, you might decide to travel via York. After all, Hunt set off from York to search for good arable land.
So, at the very start of the rush, the first prospectors tramped via Youndegin, site of a police station. And the government road to the Goldfields was built from York, Western Australia’s first inland town. To the disgust of York residents, the trainline was built from Northam. Premier John Forrest’s decision still rankles to this day.
When the railway line went through further north Youndegin declined in importance. Apparently parrot pie was the speciality of the house at the inn alongside the police station at Youndegin.
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Northam to Cunderdin
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