Cardup Railway Siding Area

Some reports say the railway siding was named Cardup as early as 1922. It was located on the railway line between Bunbury and the old Claisebrook Station.

 

The earliest reports of the name Cardup stem from 1844 when surveyor Robert Austin recorded that the Cockburn Sound Location 22 area was called Cardoup. The brook running through the area and joining the northern boundary of the location was subsequently known as the Cardoup or Cadup Brook.

 

H. Mead purchased the area in 1851, listing Cardup as his address. This spelling of Cardup became adopted in all the later plans and surveys. Cardup is said to mean “place of the racehorse goanna”.

 

By 1927, a railway siding was constructed in the area and was used until it closed in 1969.