STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREO TO KAL SURVEY MAP REF: SG129/2R CCE 36329
1946Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway
Map references SG129/2R CCE 36329 Mileage 50m 68ch - 51m 68ch (miles/chains). (80.60 - 82.21 Km)
Mileages on maps are believed to be calculated from Midland Station.
Within Shire of Toodyay Boundary.
Shows land contours with streams and roads or tracks. No river banks shown.
Casuarina and white gums prominent. Large gravel pit and gravelled road. Pig pens and slaughter house at 51 miles approximately. GWS pipeline in vicinity.
One possible alignment is noted.
Surveyor HT Williams.
Survey in 1946 by HT Williams, HS Marriott and RC Rowe for Chief Civil Engineer WAGR for standard gauge link to Trans Australia Railway at Kalgoorlie.
Without an agreement in 1960 with BHP for an iron and steelworks at Kwinana to process iron ore for Koolyanobbing this project may not have taken place.
Project eventually started 5th November 1962 and the first standard gauge trains ran through Toodyay 11th November 1966 from Merredin. Completion to Kalgoorlie to join up with the Trans Australia SG Railway happened in 1968.
Originally part of the Railway Heritage WA Museum collection, this map had been deaccessioned and was then passed on to the Newcastle Gaol Museum by a Railway Heritage volunteer in c2015.
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HT Williams
Historic: Survey in 1946 by HT Williams, HS Marriott and RC Rowe for Chief Civil Engineer WAGR for standard gauge link to Trans Australia Railway at Kalgoorlie.
Without an agreement in 1960 with BHP for an iron and steelworks at Kwinana to process iron ore for Koolyanobbing this project may not have taken place.
Project eventually started 5th November 1962 and the first standard gauge trains ran through Toodyay 11th November 1966 from Merredin. Completion to Kalgoorlie to join up with the Trans Australia SG Railway happened in 1968.
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