The Midland Junction railway station was an important junction station on the Eastern Railway of Western Australia until its closure in 1966.
Its history started on 1 March 1886 when Frederick Broome, then Governor of Western Australia, turned the first sod. It was the first railway station in Midland Junction and was replaced by the Midland station 300 metres west, across the tracks from the Midland Railway Workshops.
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