Kewdale Freight Terminal

31.983994°S 115.966016°E / -31.983994; 115.966016

Kewdale Freight Terminal
Pacific National yard, Kewdale Freight Terminal
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Location
Location	Kewdale, Western Australia
Details
Built	1968
Operated by	Pacific National
Size	17,500m²
No. of platforms	3
Rail gauge	Standard gauge
Statistics
Annual TEU	330,000

Kewdale Freight Terminal is a large intermodal rail facility in the Perth suburb of Kewdale, Western Australia. Branching off the Kwinana freight railway, it was built in the 1960s to replace the Perth marshalling yard. It initially comprised ten narrow gauge (1067mm) and seven standard gauge (1435mm) arrival roads.^[1]

The first narrow gauge sidings opened in early 1967; the first standard gauge sidings in November 1968.^[2]

Users

• Pacific National yard and depot^[3]
• UGL Rail to service the carriages used on the Indian Pacific^[4]
• Transwa depot opened April 2005 to service WDA/WDB/WDC class railcars used on AvonLink and Prospector services^[5]
• BP fuel siding
• Sadliers Transport siding
• Country Carriers siding
• BlueScope yard, moved to new facility in Forrestfield late 2005

Transwa depot

Redevelopment plans

BP fuel siding

All rail freight in and out of this terminal is moved on a single standard gauge track that crosses Daddow Road, and this level crossing has become a congestion headache for road users in the industrial area. In November 2005 the federal government announced it had allocated $11.5 million for the construction of an overpass at the level crossing.^[6][7] Now it is completed.

Rail operators Aurizon, Pacific National and Transwa share common sections of the yard which can also lead to congestion. Apart from the departure road, the yard is unsignalled. Track occupation of the common sections - north service road, eastern diagonal, and western diagonal - is manually managed by radio communications with Arc Infrastructure Eastern Train Control.