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Kattamordo Heritage Trail

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Kattamordo Heritage Trail is a walk track in Shire of Mundaring and Shire of Kalamunda shire areas in the Darling Range.

Route

It goes for 27 km (17 mi),[1] and includes traverses along formations of former forestry tramways:

  • 1908 - Mundaring weir horse tramway[note 1][3]
  • 1872 - Munday Brook horse tramway

It also passes close to Mount Gunjin and Mundaring Weir Road.

It has end points in Mundaring and Bickley and passes through Kalamunda.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Otherwise known as the wooden-railed tramwway built in 1908 to cart timber from Port, Honey & Cos sawmill at The Dell to the Mundaring Weir Railway line at Mundaring Weir.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.mundaring.wa.gov.au/YourCommunity/RecreationAndLeisure/WalkingCycling%20Trails/Pages/KattamordaHeritageTrail.aspx
  2. ^ Kattamordo (PDF), Heritage Council of Western Australia, June 1998, 6. The Dell, retrieved 15 February 2014
  3. ^ Woodland, E. W. Port Honey & Company's timber tramway in Gunzburg, Adrian; Woodland, E. W. Port Honey & Company's timber tramway; Australian Railway Historical Society. Western Australian Division (1968), The Mundaring Weir railway, Australian Railway Historical Society, W.A. Division (Inc.), retrieved 13 February 2014