Ghooli

Old Ghooli pumping station, c20111

Region: Wheatbelt
LGA: Shire of Yilgarn
Original name: No.6 Pumping Station
AKA: Ghouli
Industry: Infrastructure
Coordinates: 31°15’47.6″S 119°22’29.2″E
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Population: 0
Closed: ~1969

Ghooli, or Ghouli, was the community that sprung up around the No.6 Pumping Station on the Golden Pipeline – the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. It is currently the location of Pumping Station No.142, but as the new pumping stations are automatic they do not require maintenance teams to be local.

Ghooli was also a stop on the Eastern Railway (now the Trans Australian Railway) and home to a government agricultural experimental farm3 that was approved in 19264. Poor seasons in the 1930s and the outbreak of war in 1939 led to the farms being closed in 1940/415.

Sources

  1. Edmonds, Stephen, 2011. The State Heritage listed No.6 Pumping Station in 2011. Shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0. Retrieved on 15 Oct 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56026603 ↩︎
  2. Wikipedia, 2024. Ghouli, Western Australia. Retrieved 15 Oct 2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouli,_Western_Australia ↩︎
  3. National Trust of Western Australia, n.d. Ghooli. Retrieved on 15 Oct 2024 from https://www.goldenpipeline.com.au/place/ghooli/ ↩︎
  4. EXPERIMENTAL FARM (1926, September 5). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954), p. 1 (First Section). Retrieved October 15, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58248447 ↩︎
  5. National Trust of Western Australia, n.d. Ghooli. Retrieved on 15 Oct 2024 from https://www.goldenpipeline.com.au/place/ghooli/ ↩︎