Hopetoun - Ravensthorpe Railway Heritage Walk - Trail Description

Walkers on the trail in 2002 Ann Williams

Location: Far south, 588km from Perth

Start/end: Hopetoun to Ravensthorpe

Region: Western Australia

Length open: 39km

Surface: Dirt

Description

Follows a former isolated railway through natural bush.

The trail is open in four sections:

Raventhorpe - Desmond (16km) Some of this section of the former line has been sold off so there is a deviation of a few kilometres along the Ravensthorpe Range foothills.
Desmond - Kundip (9km)
Kundip - Lee Creek (13km)
Hopetoun Trailhead loop (14km) of which about 5km is on the former railway.

This trail is managed by the Ravensthorpe Hopetoun Area Promotions who with the Tourist Bureau have produced separate brochures for each of the sections above.

Contact them at PO Box 222 Ravensthorpe WA 6346. Phone/fax 08 9838 1277.

The trail committee has made a special effort to preserve the depression made by sleepers and there are artefacts along the way.

The railway was built to connect mines to the Hopetoun port and operated from 1909 - 1935.