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Located 202Km east of Kalgoorlie this is not a town but a simple railway siding.
The line opened in 1917 and the name has been in use since then. Is is a
crossing point on the railway where one train pulls off the main line to allow
another heading in the opposite direction to pass.
It is derived from the Latin name for the kangaroo paw flower (Anigozanthos
manglesii) which is the state’s floral emblem.
On the 18th of August 1999 a freight train headed east pulled in to the crossing
loop to allow the Indian - Pacific to pass. The second engineman was operating
the control panel and somehow managed to press the button at the wrong time
diverting the Indian - Pacific into the 'turn out' and a head on collision with
the freight train occurred
21 passengers from the passenger train were injured and had
to be air lifted by the Royal Flying Doctor to Kalgoorlie.
thankfully because the train had slowed to 40 kilometres an hour no one was
seriously injured.
One carriage was a write off and was left on site at Zanthus.
The 'turn out' controls have since been altered to prevent
such an accident form happening again.
Zanthus Project
In June 2011 Buxton Resources began explorational drilling in
the area with a plan to drill 21 test holes. Initial testing showed promising
amounts of magnetite-bearing ferruginous ironstone.
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