1984 – March – Leclercq – South West Communications

G LeClercq Westrail The scope of the South West project was, in order of importance, to provide communications circuits for:- the signalling train control systems based at Picton: Picton to Coolup and Picton to Collie. the emergency telephones installed along the tracks and at the road crossings. Those circuits are all connected to the controller at Picton. the station masters to Picton Control (direct link). the connection of the controllers at Midland and Picton (direct link) the 2 VHF radio bases at Picton and Collie (later Cookernup) PAX phones installed as extensions on Bunbury and Collie exchanges. The existing overhead bearers in the area were inadequate to fulfil the new conmunications requirements and needed extensive upgrading. A cost study showed that, in the long term, a cable carrier system would be the most economical solution, and, furthermore would provide the base for a future upgrading of our communications network between Perth and Bunbury.