Narrogin
Sign in to savethumb|Shire of Narrogin building thumb|Old Courthouse Museum thumb|Train leaving the Narrogin yard Narrogin is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, southeast of Perth on the Great Southern Highway between Pingelly and Wagin. In the age of steam engines, Narrogin was one of the largest railway operation hubs in the southern part of Western Australia.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Narrogin
- Australian place.state
- wa
- Australian place.image
- Narrogin gnangarra 02.JPG
- Australian place.caption
- Soldier memorial institute
- Australian place.lga
- Shire of Narrogin
- Australian place.local_map
- yes
- Australian place.zoom
- 12
- Australian place.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Australian place.postcode
- 6312
- Australian place.est
- 1890s
- Australian place.stategov
- Roe
- Australian place.fedgov
- O'Connor
- Australian place.dist1
- 192
- Australian place.location1
- Perth
- Australian place.dist2
- 50
- Australian place.location2
- Wagin
- Australian place.dist3
- 103
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Rail centre
- Narrogin today
- Climate
- Sport
- Military history
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Shire of Narrogin building thumb|Old Courthouse Museum thumb|Train leaving the Narrogin yard Narrogin is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, southeast of Perth on the Great Southern Highway between Pingelly and Wagin. In the age of steam engines, Narrogin was one of the largest railway operation hubs in the southern part of Western Australia.
==History== Narrogin is an Aboriginal name, having been first recorded as "Narroging" for a pool in this area in 1869. The meaning of the name is uncertain; various sources record it as "bat camp," "plenty of everything" or derived from "gnargagin" which means "place of water".