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384786PD: Metro Grain Centre at the southern end of Forrestfield Marshalling Yard, Kewdale Yard can be seen in the distance, 5 November 1997
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384787PD: Forrestfield Marshalling Yard north from Metro Grain Centre, Dundas Road in the foreground, 5 November 1997
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384788PD: Forrestfield Marshalling Yard looking west from the disused narrow gauge flyover (bottom foreground), 5 November 1997
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384789PD: Forrestfield Marshalling Yard looking south with Dundas Road on the left and Wittenoom Road in the centre, 5 November 1997
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384790PD: Southern end of Forrestfield Marshalling Yard with Metro Grain Centre at centre and Kewdale in the background, Dundas Road on the left, 5 November 1997
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384786PD shows The $120 million Metro Grain Centre (MGC) was built in 1998 and is one of the most innovative and advanced grain receival, storage and distribution complexes in the world. It is strategically located close to domestic markets and processors, with road and rail access to Fremantle Port for container export and bulk shipping via the CBH grain terminal at Kwinana. The MGC, located in Forrestfield, Perth, is fully computerised and can store over 200,000 tonnes of grain. It is at the southern end of the Forresfield Marshalling Yard and the Kewdale Yard can be seen in the distance.384789PD: Forrestfield Marshalling Yard looking south with Dundas Road at left and Wittenoom Road in the centre. Wittenoom Road has now gone (2018) and Abernethy Road runs close to where it was.
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Title devised by cataloguer. Written on negative envelope: RHK aerials 5/11/97.
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