Instead, a Kalgoorlie to Boulder tramway was constructed by the Western Australian Public Works Department and the new line was officially opened on 8 November 1897.

[5] More important than passenger transport was the wood carried on the railway for the mines as support in underground operations and firewood.

[3] The line had become necessary as the population at the east side of the mines had risen considerably, at one point 10,000 people living there.

By 1904 a Kalgoorlie to Boulder tramway was also established, which competed with the railway line and caused financial loses for the later.

[9] The line had originally been constructed by the Woodline Company and was purchased by the government for £A 18,000 in June 1924, with the aim of assisting the development of the mines in the area.

[9] By 1931, passenger services on the Brown Hill loop ceased as the houses in the area had been abandoned or dismantled because of the effects of the Great Depression, with the section closing completely in 1937.

[2] The Railway (Brown Hill Loop Kalgoorlie-Gnumballa Lake) Discontinuance Act 1948, assented to on 11 November 1948, authorised the discontinuance of the loop railway from Hannan Street station to Kamballie station via Brown Hill.

[11] In 1952, the tramline to Boulder was replaced by buses and the number of passenger services on the railway line reduced to two per day as well as one freight train to Kamballie.

From 1999, a joint venture of the Golden Mile Loopline Railway Society, the Kalgoorlie-Boulder City Council and the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Limited undertook the Loopline Heritage Restoration Project Plan, with the aim of preserving what was left of the former railway line.