Parkeston, Western Australia

Parkeston is a suburb of the city of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, located east of the city centre. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 60, down from 69 in 2006.
Parkeston was gazetted as a townsite in 1904. It was almost certainly named after Sir Henry Parkes, the "father of Australian Federation". 
Railway.
Parkeston is located near the western end of the Trans-Australian Railway. From 1917, the town was the interchange between the Western Australian Government Railways narrow gauge railway from Perth and the Commonwealth Railways' standard gauge railway to Port Augusta – a break of gauge that was not eliminated until 1970. 
The elevation at the railway sidings is 375 metres.
Military history.
During and after World War II, Parkeston was the location of a small prisoner-of-war transit and detention camp. It operated between June 1940 and March 1947 as a transit place for prisoners transiting across the country by rail, having a capacity of 20 internees in small cells.