YARLOOP

HEMA Map reference 74/E3

32° 57' 18" S 115° 53' 52" E

Statistics

Caravan Parks

Unknown

Services

Attractions

Logue Brook Dam, Workshop Museum, Yarloop Pool, Hoffman Mill, Yarloop Heritage Trail, Sotico Timber Mill Tour, Hoffman Road Lookout.

Buildings of note

Unknown

Calendar of events

March-October: Live steam days 2nd Sunday of each month. April: Aussie cars in the loop.

Hotel

Description

Once thought to have been called Yard Loop after a loop in the rail line it is now believed that the name was Aboriginal in origin and comes from the word ‘yalup’. There is a Yalup Brook just 5 kilometres north which lends more weight to this view.

It was a timber siding on the Perth to Bunbury railway in 1896. The main industry in this area was timber with the timber mill dating back to the early 1900s. Developed as a private town it was not gazetted until 1962.

Yarloop Workshops Museum

This museum houses the largest collection of working steam engines in the southern hemisphere. It is very extensive and well worth the small entry fee. The workshops used to have it's own foundry and there is an amazing collection of wooden blanks of parts that were once used by various machines at the workshops.