Old Bunbury Railway Station

The Old Bunbury Railway Station on Carmody Place is a heritage-listed brick building dating from 1905 — or more precisely from a 1928 rebuild of the 1905 structure, which itself replaced the original 1894 timber station that burned down. The building operated as the terminal for the South Western Railway connecting Bunbury to Perth for over 80 years, until services were reorganised in 1985.

Rather than being demolished when the railway function ended, the station was converted into the Bunbury Bus Station and Visitor Centre, which it remains today. The visitor information centre inside is genuinely useful for picking up maps and brochures for the South West region. The building's architecture — solid brick with the characteristic canopy roof of a small regional railway terminus — gives a sense of the colonial prosperity that the timber and agricultural trade brought to Bunbury.

The station is on the State Register of Heritage Places, registered in 1997.

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The original timber station opened in 1894 and served Bunbury for a decade before burning down in 1904. The brick replacement built in 1905 operated as a railway terminus for 80 years, until the line from Perth was cut short in 1985 and the trains were replaced by buses. The building was saved from demolition and now serves as the bus station and visitor centre.

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