Loongana, Western Australia

30°56′46″S 127°02′17″E / 30.946°S 127.038°E / -30.946; 127.038

Loongana is a former railway town on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia.

It was built by the Commonwealth Railways to accommodate maintenance staff and their families on the Trans-Australian Railway that opened in 1917.[1] The town was dependent on the Tea & Sugar for the delivery of supplies until 1996 when the train was withdrawn.[2][3]

The area was formerly the site of a lime mine and processing plant.[4]

References

  1. ^ The Trans-Australian Railway Railway Gazette 7 January 1921 pages 15-19
  2. ^ Australia's longest delivery service Network February 1973 page 4
  3. ^ Tea & Sugar bites the dust Railway Digest October 1996 page 21
  4. ^ Chris Fitzhardinge (2010), Trainee to train controller: a photographic account of a life on the railways in Western Australia 1992-2010, Midcon Publications
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