The Abandoned Mundijong-Jarrahdale Railway 

When was that? Id like to read the news reports about it

I remember hearing about this. Pretty crap that they did it. It was one of the better preserved sections on line around there. I managed to drive a section of it about 10-12 years ago, I think there may be another part missing too. I remember a section where there were railway sleepers still with track removed.

I can't say I'm surprised. Selfish (*) like that just have to ruin anything good.

Nice. My grandad worked for Westrail too. Unsure which lines he worked on though

G'day. What year was that (approximately?), if you don't mind me asking. Cheers from Sydney.

Not to naught. Without those lines when they were in use, places like Mundijong may not be as big as they are now. They served a purpose till they were no longer needed

Of course, I should have suspected thieves!

I can understand and support the government for not letting them start the new mine since they didn’t rehab the last site properly, hopefully it’s a once bitten twice shy mentality holding it back and not just they’re waiting for a big enough bribe!

Kwinana refinery is going to be close down shortly. And I'm pretty sure that Pinjarra Huntley mine has mined close Jarrahdale anyway. Alcoa America is mining in other countries. It is cheaper. Jarrahdale was Alcoa learning curve. Have hiked through that area with scout leader training. As it is cheaper

That explains why it's stuck around for so long. Most lines in Perth get pulled up the moment they're deactivated

Man, that sucks. Haha. Where abouts is the mine?

Awesome!

Another fantastic ride is Pinjarra to Dwellingup along the old line. About 10km out from Pinjarra there is an interesting collection of rolling stock just sitting on the line, no siding, quite bizarre.

Another fantastic ride is Pinjarra to Dwellingup along the old line. About 10km out from Pinjarra there is an interesting collection of rolling stock just sitting on the line, no siding, quite bizarre.

Another fantastic ride is Pinjarra to Dwellingup along the old line. About 10km out from Pinjarra there is an interesting collection of rolling stock just sitting on the line, no siding, quite bizarre.

Thanks. That line has been on the list for a while. I think it's getting reused soon? Might be another line down there I'm thinking of.

Very interesting. Would you be able to provide coordinates on Google Maps for the dam site?

@@brendansodyssey No I don't only way I found it was a ranger stopped me to ask what I was doing there so asked him where the dam was. It is not all that far from Jarrahdale road, Think it might be on Chandler Brook. You did not really show on your video the train loop where the trains were loaded with bauxite, I was amazed by all the ballast left in that area. At the end of that Alcoa road was a security gate with security people had to be checked in before you could go in. Once in there were lots of office buildings and huge big workshops for all the mining equipment I mean the place was massive, and now you can not imagine what it was like there all now grown over. Also in that area in the early 1900's there were said to be 2000 timber cutters cutting Jarrah to be sent to London to pave the streets there. They had small steam trains carting the logs to a mill in Jarrahdale, have seem the formed up lines the tracks used to run on. I believe they had a train line from Jarrahdale to Rockingham to where the timber was loaded onto ships. Have seen some old Jarrah stumps with axe cut in's where they would secure their stand on boards to fell the tree up high. The bush is now totally ruined back in that day there was only 12 trees to the hectare so was not that hard to clear a line today same area there are 1000 trees to the hectare just a total mess. Sickens me to see the state of the bush now.

Isn't it funny how you have seen Alcoa can do an amazing job restoring land, yet they're in trouble for failing to do that at other sites. Does make you wonder where exactly the decision to cut that corner is occurring. Clearly around Jarrahdale, whoever was making the decisions decided to do things right.

@@shibibi1 Go back to those Alcoa sites in 20 to 30 years' time, and they will be just like the Jarrahdale sites. Some people carry on about nothing.

same here i knew it got removed after a truck hit it but that was about it

I know the line, Was Forestry

Figured it would be something like that. Thanks.

Cool! And I've spent a lot time in that tunnel, I grew up nearby. I plan to make a video about it eventually.

When we visited in the 1980s (as part of our Geography classes at school) they said they removed the top soil before they started extracting the bauxite.

I will! Thanks for the tip

Thanks Rich. I've had a bit of a break but I'm working on a video that will hopefully be out this weekend!

@@brendansodyssey great to hear! I believe there is an abandoned camp ground in Jarrahdale which I want to go and visit. That old sawmill I went to a few weeks ago after seeing your video , was really cool to see in person!

I stayed in Bridgetown when I did the Skeleton Brigde and Donnelly River videos, right near the old bridge going over the river. It would be cool to see it operating again.

Very cool, I'll look into it. Thanks!

Think that reads right now. 3 or 4th attempt.. I always look here late..

Yeah mate, on the list for the immediate future :)

Cool story. Would love to find a source on that

@@brendansodyssey If true, it’s certainly interesting. Hahaha

Struggling to find anything on this. Could you send me some Google Maps coordinates or something like that? Feel free to email me if you like.

Not a video, but I did take photos there years ago: breakingintotheindustry.blogspot.com/2014/02/abandoned-woodman-point-munitions.html

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=pta.wa.gov.au/Portals/15/AA_DOCUMENTS/Our_system/Freight%2520network/PTA%2520Rail%2520Network%2520Map_2019.pdf%3Fver%3D2019-05-02-104058-827%26timestamp%3D1598284332914&ved=2ahUKEwj2lIbasM6FAxUod2wGHRu7AXQQFnoECBYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw26DDrhYwNuqe1uz4T7xW4P

Very cool. There's several other disused lines shown too.

I have! Check out my video on Statham's Quarry

Looks to me like it's just where the mine's area of track stopped and the government starts, the mine had to remove it as part of the rehab so the guys dismantling the track got to that point and that was it. Generally when your tearing track apart you just drop the rail off the side and run a loader with forks under the sleepers to remove them and you end up with something like this.

@@matty101yttam That's a much better reasoning than my initial thoughts. Cheers Matty... You do wonder why if they've gone to all that trouble to remove the sleepers why wouldn't they repurpose the rail in some way... Maybe a job unfinished...?

@@MrNatebain ​ can't say for certain, there's a few possibilities... 1, the rail looks like it should have been ok on initial dismantling but bauxite mining uses something like caustic soda(can't remember the proper name), also ores on steel tend to corrode as well so it's entirely possible that while the head of the rail looks fine the foot may have been eaten away. 2, the rail looks like 47 maybe 50 kg rail, most country rail is grainline and used to be mainly like 41kg, you can match them in but sometimes it's not worth the effort 3, rail develops shape memory, if there's a lot of curves then accidentally using it on a curve in the opposite direction can lead to a higher frequency of breaks. 4, accounting magic, the cost of getting 2nd hand rail(that may only have half its usage left) from a semi remote location compared to brand new rail out of a station purpose built for loading a rail train. It's also entirely possible it may be a combination of those as well as the possibility someone in management simply forgot(happens a lot when it's not your money...we had to drop some ballast on a freight line with a ballast train, was like $20k to book time and our engineer forgot to tell the guys at the loading pit to fill it....came out empty)

i'm guessing you mean to run on the tracks, i think that would be a bad idea since only the older crossings would have the wheel grooves put in, they newer stuff looks head level which mean you'll be derailed.

Ha, guess so. Jarrahdale is a big place 🤷‍♂️

I have a speech impediment :(

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