Classic route
The Prospector
Perth → Kalgoorlie · Australia
The Prospector in pictures
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- Distance
- 653 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 97 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Transwa
- Train
- WDA/WDB diesel railcar
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1971
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Australia’s fastest diesel railcars shadow the 1903 goldfields water pipeline across the Wheatbelt to Kalgoorlie’s Golden Mile.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11246747 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of Prospector
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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