Coondle Siding - Site of

Statement of Significance

The site has historic value for its associations with the development of the railway northwards from Toodyay to Bolgart and the Coondle Estate. The site has research value as it has potential to contain subsurface archaeological remains.

Physical Description

Remnants of the siding remains in the form of an earthen mound.

History

The Coondle Estate was the first land in the state to be resumed for the purchase and subdivision of old grants. It had a long history of absentee ownership with the original grantee, George Leake, never living there and subsequent lessees occupying the property. It was subdivided in 1898 into 71 blocks. George Throssell, Minister for Lands, proposed that the hills be used for running cattle and the cleared river flats used for vineyards, orchards and vegetables, using the pools along the Toodyay Brook for irrigation. All the land was taken up within two years.
The railway from Toodyay to Bolgart was constructed in 1909 and this siding would have been used for goods and passengers.

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