This book is a Nyungar history of Western Australia's rail network, providing an overview of the myriad Aboriginal contributions both regionally and inter-generationally to the rail network's construction, extension and operation. But the book's focus is broader, showing how post-1905 government policies of racial segregation, family break-up, and child removal, depended critically on the existence of convenient transportation, while contributing Elders refused any victimhood narrative, instead emphasising the role rail played in employment, housing - and limited escape from Native Welfare...