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Midland
Suburb
The Old Midland Courthouse
Interactive map of Midland
Coordinates:31°53′17″S116°00′36″E / 31.888°S 116.010°E /-31.888; 116.010
Country	Australia
State	Western Australia
City	Perth
LGA	City of Swan
Established	1890s
Government
• State electorate	Midland
• Federal division	Hasluck
Population
• Total	6,335 (SAL2021)[2]
Postcode	6056
Suburbs around Midland Viveash Middle Swan Midvale Woodbridge Midland Midvale Hazelmere Hazelmere Bellevue

Midland is asuburb and historic town ofPerth,Western Australia, located 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of Perth's central business district. It is the administrative seat and commercial centre of theCity of Swan local government area. It is also a designatedstrategic metropolitan centre for the larger Perth metropolitan area.^[3]

Midland was the site of theMidland Railway Workshops - the main workshops for theWestern Australian Government Railways for over 80 years. It was also a terminus for theMidland Railway Company. At the end of the Second World War it was the junction of the Midland Railway, theUpper Darling Range railway, and the mainEastern Railway.

TheTransperth suburban railway system currently has a terminus atMidland station. There are plans to potentially extend this service further to the nearby suburb of Bellevue.

Until 1966 the earlier railway station atMidland was the connecting location for trains toBellevue and then ontoChidlow. Prior to 1954 it included the passenger service from the Mundaring Loop - or the originalEastern Railway (Western Australia), which went throughMundaring,Glen Forrest andDarlington. Until 1949 the passenger service toKalamunda on the Upper Darling Range railway was still operating via theKalamunda Zig Zag atGooseberry Hill to Midland.

Midland Junction developed around the Town Hall (1906) and Post Office (1913) sites and spread slowly east and north for over 70 years. The centrality of the main services, and the unusual presence of the Midland Railway Company sheds and yard directly adjacent to the Town Hall and Post Office, combined with the Government Railway Workshops, gave a focused sense of location to the commercial centre, and the local residences. The commercialisation ofGreat Eastern Highway roadfront residential properties to Bellevue was not complete before the 1990s.

In the 1970s the development ofMidland Gate Shopping Centre completely changed the focus of the community, with businesses traditionally within walking distance of the Post Office and Railway Station closing down or shifting over the following decades. The re-development of the Midland Gate Shopping Centre has reasserted the car oriented nature of the regional centre, and the old centre of Midland is currently undergoing revitalisation and redevelopment with mixed use commercial and residential property providing the main focus.

Midland's townsite is based around bothGreat Eastern Highway, which carries east bound traffic, and Victoria Street, which carries westbound traffic. It is possible to transfer from one to the other via the Padbury Terrace intersection to access Great Eastern Highway from Victoria Street, or use Helena Street to complete the reverse. Cale Street which forms the perimeter of the Midland Gate Shopping Centre also provides this access.

The townsite is lively and becoming increasingly busy attracting commuters from a wide surrounding area. Commercial and retail trade has been expanded further east on Great Eastern Highway. Continuing development in commercial and residential property within the original townsite means that despite the age of the townsite, it has taken on a modern character which blends seamlessly with the original and it is the main port of call for eastern travellers who do not bypass the historical area via Roe Highway.

•    290 and 291Midland Station toRedcliffe Station – serve Victoria Street,Great Eastern Highway and Helena Street^[4][5]
•    300Midland Station toMidland Station (free service) – Circular Route, servesGreat Eastern Highway, The Crescent, Keane Street, Old Great Northern Highway and Helena Street^[6]
•    301Midland Station toMidland Station – Circular Route, serves Yelverton Drive and Centennial Place^[7]
•    308Midland Station toMidland Station – Circular Route, serves Helena Street, The Crescent, Hamersley Street, Margaret Street,Great Northern Highway and Muriel Street^[8]
•    310Midland Station toEllenbrook Station – serves Helena Street, The Crescent, Hamersley Street, Margaret Street andGreat Northern Highway^[9]
•    312Midland Station toMidland Station – Circular Route, serves Helena Street, The Crescent, Hamersley Street, Margaret Street andGreat Northern Highway^[10]
•    314 and 315Midland Station toMidland Station – Clockwise Circular Routes, serve Helena Street, The Crescent, Lloyd Street andMorrison Road^[11][12]
•    322Midland Station toGlen Forrest – servesGreat Eastern Highway, Victoria Street, Lloyd Street and Clayton Street^[13]
•    324 and 325Midland Station toMidland Station – Anti-Clockwise Circular Routes, serve Helena Street, The Crescent,Morrison Road and Lloyd Street^[14][15]
•    326Midland Station toMidland Station – Circular Route, servesGreat Eastern Highway,Morrison Road, The Crescent, Helena Street^[16]
•    358 and 359Midland Station toWhiteman Park Station – serve Helena Street, The Crescent and Lloyd Street^[17][18]

Bus routes servingGreat Eastern Highway and Victoria Street:

•    320Midland Station toMundaring^[19]
•    321Midland Station toGlen Forrest^[20]
•    328Midland Station toChidlow^[21]

Bus routes servingGreat Eastern Highway, Victoria Street, Lloyd Street, Clayton Street and Military Road:

•    277 and 278Midland Station toHigh Wycombe Station^[22][23]
•    307Midland Station toKalamunda Bus Station^[24]

Bus routes serving Helena Street, The Crescent andMorrison Road:

•    313Midland Station toJane Brook^[25]
•    323Midland Station toSwan View^[26]
•    327Midland Station to Swan View Shopping Centre^[27]

•   Midland Line
  • Midland Station

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It currently is being re-developed in part by the Midland Redevelopment Authority, which is organising redevelopment of the Railway Workshops site. Although some museum and storage facilities are being developed at the old workshops site, most of the massive railway superstructure and presence in Midland has gone. The Redevelopment Authority has under its act been vested with lands that do not fully encompass the whole 'old town' of Midland, but only parts of it.

The Midland Saleyards which are at the eastern end of the Railway Workshop site have been in the process of closing and all the related businesses and properties are in the process of being relocated and redeveloped. The Midland Military Markets at the northern edge of the Midland Saleyards - literally utilised an old Military site for a weekend market. The markets were destroyed by fire on 25 April 2007.^[28] Not far west and adjacent to the Lloyd Street railway crossing - a largeHarvey Norman store was opened in 2005 on the corner of Clayton and Lloyd Streets.

Parts of the Midland Railway Workshops site are home to a largeWestern Australian Police Operations Centre,Curtin University’s Midland Campus,^[29] as well as other projects. The Coal Storage dam at the western side of the Workshops has become an ornamental lake adjacent to residential redevelopment called 'Woodbridge Lakes'.

In November 2005 the State Government announced plans to construct a 326-bed hospital on the site of the old railway workshops. The new hospital, to replace the agingSwan District Hospital, was predicted to be open by 2011 at a cost of A$182.7 million. The hospital was opened on 20 November 2015 by PremierColin Barnett, with operations beginning on 24 November.^[30]

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• Ralph Sarich: engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
• Keith Slater: Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
• Ken Bagley: Australian rules footballer
• Jack Wong Sue:Chinese Australian soldier, mariner, author and entrepreneur
• Albert Facey: author of the auto-biography - A Fortunate Life
• Bruce Yardley: Australian cricketer
• Mike Richardson - Australian rules footballer
• Garry Sidebottom: Australian rules footballer
• Ian Williams - Australian rules footballer
• Allan Cuthbertson: actor
• Simon Katich: Australian cricketer
• Jessica Gomes: international model
• Cameron Meyer: Australian cyclist
• Travis Meyer: Australian cyclist
• Nic Naitanui: Australian rules footballer - West Coast Eagles
• Stephen Coniglio: Australian rules footballer - Greater Western Sydney Giants
• Michael Walters: Australian rules footballer - Fremantle Football Club^[31]

• Midland Junction Municipality
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