"High Beach"


Telegraph Poles

Western Australia

Wooden telegraph pole

These wooden telegraph poles are in the Murchison along a disused portion of a main road. It is not known if the telegraph line was part of the government (PMG) network or private line to connect two stations, or a station with an outstation. The insulators are unbranded and quite small, being about 5cm high and 4cm in diameter.

Iron wire was used for the line. 		Wooden telegraph pole
Metal telegraph pole A metal telegraph pole on a private line which used to run between two homesteads. The line used to be connected into the PMG network.

The insulator on the pole is 6cm high and 5.5cm in diameter at the base, branded FK and made in Japan. A broken insulator was found on the ground nearby. This insulator was larger, being 12cm in height and 7.5cm in diameter at the base and unlike the other insulators has a protruding "inner shed". It was embossed "Bullers Ltd London." The Teleramics website has information on Bullers Ltd and British insulators. 		Insulator detail
Sometimes stations used one of the wires in a fence as a telegraph line. Insulators from old telegraph lines have on occasions been recycled and used in electric fences.