Yerbillon, Western Australia was the location of Number 5 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 11 on the pipeline.[1] It was also located on the Eastern Goldfields Railway.[2]

It was the location of a railway accident in 1902.[3]

It was located between number 4 pumping station at Merredin, and number 6 at Ghouli.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ No.5 Pumping Station Yerbillon, 13/11/02, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  2. ↑ Baldwin engine off the line at Yerbillon, 1900, retrieved 3 March 2016
  3. ↑ "Railway Collision". The Northam Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 760. Western Australia. 18 June 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 11 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ Lorman, Edna; Hutchinson, Joan (2004), Yerbillon: recollections of childhood years at Yerbillon, the number 5 pumping station of the Goldfields water supply system in Western Australia during the early years of the 20th century, Perth, W.A.: J. Hutchinson, retrieved 3 March 2016
  5. ↑ Blundell, Oswald; Hartley, Richard G. (2002), Interview with Oswald Blundell (sound recording), Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply History Project, Water Corporation of Western Australia, retrieved 18 October 2016
  6. ↑ Geary, Annie Margaret; Barton, Ruth (1980), Interview with Annie Geary (sound recording), retrieved 18 October 2016
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