Employee houses of the former Commonwealth Railways at the isolated railway settlement of Loongana in 2006. The houses, now demolished, were for employees at a time when it was necessary to have local maintenance crews available.
The area was formerly the site of a lime mine and processing plant.[1] The settlement was dependent on the Tea and Sugar Train for the delivery of supplies until 1996 when the train was withdrawn.
As of 2022 the Indian Pacific, the only passenger train that traverses the entire Trans-Australian Railway, still passes there, but does not stop.[2]
^Fitzhardinge, Cris (2010), Trainee to train controller : a photographic account of a life on the railways in Western Australia 1992-2010, Midcon Publications, ISBN978-0-646-35213-8 section of Fitzhardinge's book included details about the Lime works siding working