Midland Railway Workshops
Engineering Heritage Western Australia proposes to nominate the Midland Railway Workshops for a marker under the Engineering Heritage Recognition Program. In the interim, this web page provides information currently available.
In April 1993 the Western Australian Government announced that the Midland Workshops were to be closed in March 1994. To manage the closure of the site, the State Government set up the Central Midland Planning Taskforce to plan future use of the Workshops site. The Taskforce commissioned a consultant team headed by K.A. Adam & Associates to prepare an overall Strategy Plan taking into account five main aims, including retention of the heritage value of the site.
As a component of the Strategy Plan, an industrial Archaeological Report was prepared by C & MJ Doring Pty Ltd. The report is concerned primarily with an inventory of operational Workshops equipment and other Workshops artefacts considered to have high heritage significance and interpretative value. Carl and Margret Doring have made their 1994 report available to Engineering Heritage Western Australia and a copy can be accessed below:
- Midland Workshops Volume 1 ~ Report (Guide to the Inventory)(7.5 MB)
- Midland Workshops Volume 2 ~ Inventory (Item Numbers Under 3000)(113.2 MB)
- Midland Workshops Volume 3 ~ Inventory (Item Numbers Over 3000)(116.1 MB)
A 25.5 MB 600dpi version of Volume 1 is available for download here. Uncompressed 600dpi versions of Volume 2 (540 MB) and Volume 3 (591.2 MB) are available on request from EHWA.
Plans of the Midland Railway Workshop buildings have been made available by Bill Larke from his collection and are available here.
