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YELLOWDINE - REENS SOAK

Latitude 31° 18' S Longitude 119° 39' E

The townsite of Yellowdine formerly knows as Reens Sioak is located in the goldfields region, 402 km east of Perth and 33 km east of Southern Cross. It is located on the Southern Cross to Coolgardie railway which opened in 1896, although the Yellowdine Railway Siding is included in a July 1895 list of stations and sidings. Gold was discovered at a number of locations from 9 to 30 kilometres south of Yellowdine Siding in 1934, and as Yellowdine was the nearest rail point, the government decided to develop a townsite at the siding. At first a new townsite at the nearest gold find was to be named Yellowdine, and this townsite Duladgin, but when the gold field townsite was named Mount Palmer, Yellowdine became available. Yellowdine townsite was gazetted in April 1935. The name is most likely Aboriginal, and the onetime misspelling of Yelladine may be a more authentic spelling. One of the earliest industries in the town was a plaster works built there in 1934. 

Yellowdine Street Map - Image SLWA

Reccomended Reading

Yellowdine, Reens Soak and Mt Palmer - Treasures in the Bush - by Delys Howlett