Eradu is a small town in Western Australia located in the Mid West region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 located 34 km east of Geraldton on the Geraldton-Mount Magnet

Mount Magnet, Western Australia

Mount Magnet is an old Western Australian gold rush town. The name was chosen during exploration of the region due to an isolated hill 5 km north west of the town current townsite. This hill has an extremely high iron content and affected the compasses of explorers...

 road.

Following the opening of the Nangulu-Mullewa

Mullewa, Western Australia

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 railway line in 1894 a station was opened at the location of the current town-site. The name of the station was Greenough River

Greenough River

The Greenough River is a river in the Mid West region of Western Australia.-Course:Nominally located at , Greenough River has its headwaters near Woojalong Hills on the Yilgarn Plateau. It runs in a south westerly direction through deep valleys for approximately , passing through the Waterloo...

 until 1903. It remained a station with a station master

Station master

The station master was the person in charge of railway stations, in the United Kingdom and some other countries, before the modern age. He would manage the other station employees and would have responsibility for safety and the efficient running of the station...

 from 1915 to 1921 and was gazetted as a town in 1920. The station later became a siding until it was closed in 1973.

The name is Aboriginal in origin and is the name of a pool found in the nearby Greenough River.