STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREO TO KAL SURVEY MAP REF: SG119/3 R4 CCE 35932/3

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Overview

Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway
Map references SG119/3 R4 CCE 35932/3
Mileage 34m 10ch - 36m 12ch (miles/chains). (54.96 - 58.18 Km)
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 or tracks.
Flood levels 1945. Billabong and rocky ridge. 4P and netting fences.
Sheep yards, G.I. shed and mud brick house. Well and dilapidated fencing, quartz blow. Cleared and cultivated land. Old garden and spring piped to 1200 gallon tank and mud brick house.
Massive boulders and a rocky ridge shown.
Three possible railway alignment shown.
Surveyor HT Williams.

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-37-2018.10n

Item type

Documents

Width

79 cm

Height or length

201 cm

Inscriptions and markings

HT Williams

Keywords

Avon River

Western Australian Government Railways

Standard Gauge Railway

Agriculture

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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