STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREMANTLE TO KALGOORLIE SURVEY MAP REFERENCES SG126/1R CCE 36289

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1946

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Overview

Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway.
Map references SG126/1R CCE 36289 Mileage 46m 50ch - 48m 5ch (miles/chains).(74.82 - 77.25Km)
Mileages on maps are believed to be calculated from Midland Station.
Within Shire of Toodyay Boundary.
Shows land contours and river bank with streams entering and roads.
Avon Terrace shown and Lukin St, Sanitary Depot on Lot 72 Reserve 3014. Various other lots shown also. Abandoned vineyards and also cleared and cropped land. Disused wine cellar, reserve 60c, lot divisions from 9 to 56 shown. Mud brick house on lot 12 for Sinclair marked as demolished. Two houses and tennis court.
One railway alignment shown.

Historical information

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.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2018.10j

Item type

Documents

Width

79 cm

Height or length

201 cm

Keywords

Avon River

Western Australian Government Railways

Standard Gauge Railway

Mortigup Creek

Year

1946

Statement of significance

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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Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Shire of Toodyay

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