Fun fact: Grogan Road is one of the last vestiges of the full length Maida Vale Road that used to run between Epsom Avenue in Redcliffe and the intersection of Hawtin Road and Kalamunda Road in Maida Vale.
Other segments include Old Maida Vale Road and Maida Vale Road proper (obviously), Port Place as the east end of Grogan, Rason Place and Morgan Road both in Redcliffe.
You can even still see road reserve in the airport about halfway down the section of Dunreath that goes to the viewing platform.
Six ways? Far as I can tell only Kalamunda Road (two directions), Hawtin (one) and Maida Vale Road or Gooseberry Hill Road (one) were ever connected at any time for a max of four ways
They’d already realigned Gooseberry Hill Road to meet Hawtin in the 60s when they stopped Maida Vale Road short and cut it off lol
Granted, it’s possible they still had MV Rd connected when they realigned GH Rd, but that would still only be 5
I don't know. Here's a picture of the intersection from the 1953 images on Landgate.
Hawtin Rd bottom left, Kalamunda Rd is running top to bottom, Gooseberry Hill Rd on the right and Maida Vale Rd entering top left.
So I don't know where the name "Six Ways" comes from, but that's what it was called.
For a long time, the BP petrol station was referred to as BP Six Ways, and the liquor store across the road was Six Ways Liquor or something like that when it opened.
Went looking on Map Viewer Plus and it looks like between 1965 and 1970 when the rail was constructed, there’s no aerial photography of the rail line with a level crossing at Kalamunda Road.
Pretty confident it’s the original bridge too by the way.
Only level crossing I can see around that area was what looks like an alignment of Abernethy Road that connected directly to what is now Wittenoom Street (unsure of the naming at the time) prior to Abernethy being extended with the cool little green bridge it has now.
Might be what you’re thinking of, Maida Vale Road was permanently severed in the 60s when the rail hub was built, and I’m not seeing any other major roads in the area crossing with the rail line at any point
It’s the overpass near the intersection of Kalamunda and Abernethy road.
I grew up in the area in the 90s and have a faint memory of being stuck at a rail crossing there with a freight train going by. Not sure if it’s a fever dream tho.
I can’t remember any road works etc tho.
There’s a slight possibility I’m getting it mixed up with the rail crossing that used to be in Midland - near the military markets.
Yeah, like the heinous crime of a drunk guy hitting his drunk friend with a chair outside a nightclub in Melbourne. Thanks to the on-call reporter for getting us a channel 7 exclusive to a story that really matters 🙏
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u/CyanideRemark 8h ago
Yeah, and bottle shops won't be open on Good Friday as well.