Photo taken 8 January 1977 – supplied by Jeff Austin, Rail Heritage WA.
The Tenindewa siding was opened in 1908 and was named KOCKATEA on 1.9.1908. It was renamed TENINDEWA on 1.8.1909.
The shelter shed seen in the photograph above is a standard 6th Class station building, a New Zealand Railways design introduced to WA by C.Y. O’Connor in 1891. The building at Tenindewa was originally built at Moyagee (37km north of Mt Magnet) in 1898 and was moved to Tenindewa on 22.8.1910.
The siding was eliminated on 12.1.1987, though a new crossing loop for iron ore trains was completed in the last couple of years.
The Tenindewa sign was lost for many years but now sits above the Tenindewa Store. hit on the blue text adjacent and read the story of The Long Lost Sign.
Tenindewa 1950s
Thanks to Berna Drummond
Railway employees’ houses looking west from the Shop
Looking west
Siding building with Railway Houses to the right
CBH “H Type” shed and “Pig Pen” to the left
Click on right pointing arrow above
Vera Constance Sands, daughter of Kathleen Palmer/Rumble speaks of the siding in the early days.
Sava Singh, of whom she speaks, lived to the south of the Siding and on the other side of the Highway
1954
