Parkeston is a suburb of the city of Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Kalgoorlie, known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, and is located east-northeast of state capital Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway...

, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, located 3 km east of the city centre. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

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, Parkeston had a population of 69.

Railway

This Australian townsite was gazetted in 1904 and is located on the western end of the Trans-Australian Railway

Trans-Australian Railway

The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia...

. From 1917, the town was the interchange between the narrow gauge railway from Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 and the standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

 railway to Port Pirie. This break of gauge was eliminated in 1970.

• Elevation = 468m