Trayning, Western Australia

When the Dowerin to Merredin railway line was planned in 1910, Trayning was selected as the site for a siding. Land was set aside for a townsite to be named Trayning Siding in 1910, but when it was surveyed and gazetted in 1912 it was named Trayning. The townsite is named after Trayning Well, the Aboriginal name of a nearby water source on an old road from Goomalling to the eastern goldfields. It was first recorded by a surveyor in 1892, and allegedly derives from the Aboriginal word During meaning "snake in the grass by the campfire".{{LandInfo WA|c|T|21 February 2007}}

In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32560140 |title=Country elevators |newspaper=The West Australian|location=Perth|date=6 July 1932|access-date=6 April 2013|page=10|publisher=National Library of Australia}} Trayning was one of the first five locations of bulk wheat transport on the Western Australian Government Railways and consequently one of the starting points of the Co-operative Bulk Handling system of grain receival points.Western Australian Government Railways Annual report 1932{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32585348 |title=BULK HANDLING. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XLIX |issue=9,524 |location=Western Australia |date=5 January 1933 |accessdate=4 October 2021 |page=50 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Trayning to Merredin railway line has been designated a Tier 3 line in the wheatbelt railway network, and was closed in October 2013.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-03/rail-line-closing-upset-wheatbelt-farmers/4996742?section=wa|title=Wheatbelt farmers concerned rail freight line closure will hit their back pockets|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|date=3 October 2013|access-date=3 October 2013}}Map and timeline on page 3 - Merredin-Trayning as one of the first closures of the tier three system {{Citation|title=No Tier 3 ... but it's not the end of the line, yet | journal=Countryman|publication-date=2019-11-07 | publisher=West Australia Newspapers Ltd | pages=3 }}

The town is a tourist base for exploring local wildflowers, has a K-7 primary school with 15 students that was opened in 1912, and a 25-metre swimming pool. An attraction is the annual Trayning Tractor Pull.{{cite web|url=http://www.trayning.wa.gov.au/index.php/tourism/special-events|title=Events in Trayning|publisher=Shire of Trayning|access-date=1 October 2013}}

The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf|title=CBH receival sites|year=2011|access-date=1 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318082458/https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf|archive-date=18 March 2012}}

Polling place statistics are shown below showing the votes from Trayning in the federal and state elections as indicated.

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• {{cite book|last1=Appleyard|first1=Reginald T|last2=Couper|first2=Don|title=A history of Trayning|date=2009|publisher=UWA Publishing|location=Crawley, WA|isbn=9781921401381}}

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• [http://www.trayning.wa.gov.au/ Shire of Trayning]
• [http://www.australiasgoldenoutback.com/en/Wheatbelt/Towns/Trayning/Trayning.htm Australia's Golden Outback – Trayning]
• [https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/rmtr/243/ Groundwater study of the Trayning townsite] (Department of Agriculture)

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Category:Towns in Western Australia

Category:Grain receival points of Western Australia

Category:Shire of Trayning