STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREO TO KAL SURVEY MAP REF: SG128/1R CCE 36327/2

1946
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Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway
Map references SG128/1R CCE 36327/2 Mileage. 49m-36c to 50m.68c (79.13-79.13 Km)
Mileages on maps are believed to be calculated from Midland Station.
Within Shire of Toodyay Boundary.
Shows land contours with streams entering and roads or tracks. No river banks shown.
Toodyay/Perth Road shown together with Racecourse Road and Lloyds Crossing. Old narrow gauge line from Clackline shown. Harper Brook far right of map (not named).
Two possible alignments are noted.
Many surveyors marks and notes.
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.

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cwa-org-37-2018.10v
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Width
79 cm
Height or length
201 cm
Inscriptions and markings

HT Williams

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Shire of Toodyay

Shire of Toodyay

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