Golden Pipeline

National Trust of WA

Explore The Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail

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.

Discover The people and the Scheme

“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” – Sir John Forrest

Cunderdin to Merredin See & Do Museums

Cunderdin Museum

  • 10am - 4pm
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The museum is housed in the original No 3 Pump Station and contains one of the original steam engines, moved from Gilgai when the No 7 Pump Station was demolished.

It also contains a collection of local artefacts and displays — military, household, industrial and agricultural — as well as an interactive Earthquake House which graphically illustrates the destructive power of an earthquake. Outside there is a range of vintage tractors, motor vehicles and agricultural implements as well as a railway dining car.

Each engine has a trademark of the supplier's details.  This engine was made by James Simpson & Co in 1900, with the stunning lime green engine in the background.
Anne Brake. Each engine has a trademark of the supplier's details.

The Cunderdin Museum houses the information centre where you can find out more to see and do in the town.

Address: Forrest Street, Cunderdin
Ph: 9635 1291
Opening hours: 10am – 4pm daily

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