Complex sentence: Affiliated with the Historical Societies of Western Australia, the society is a vital conduit for the disparate heritage and history issues in the shire area-in earlier times a group of scattered communities linked by the railway branches that now constitutes the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail.
Split into simpler sentences: Affiliated with the Historical Societies of Western Australia, the Society is a vital conduit for the disparate heritage and history issues in the Shire area. In earlier times a group of scattered communities linked by the railway branches that now constitutes the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail.