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was a Railway from Midland , Western Australia , to Karragullen. It is also known as the ' Kalamunda Line' or as the 'Upper Darling Range Branch', and it is the only section of railway in Western Australia to have had a Zig-Zag formation.

Stopping Places (or section ends) in the 1920s were:

  • Bushmead (now under Roe Highway )

  • Ridge Hill (lower section of Zig Zag)

  • Bottom Points

  • Stathams (quarry) Perth City Council Siding

  • Number 3 Points

  • Top Points (upper section of Zig Zag)

  • Gooseberry Hill

  • Kalamunda (where the Kalamunda History Village is now)

  • South Kalamunda

  • Walliston

  • Bickley (named Heidelberg between 1904 and 1915)

  • Carmel

  • Pickering Brook

  • Canning Mills

  • Karragullen


The line was closed and pulled up in 1949 .