STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREO TO KAL SURVEY MAP REF: SG127/2R CCE 36298

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Overview

Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway
Map references SG127/2R CCE 36298 Mileage 48m 05ch - 49m 35ch (miles/chains). (77.25 - 79.13 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. Harper Road leading into Stirling Terrace and other roads shown. Narrow gauge railway shown ex Clackline heading to Miling. Brick and stone houses on Harper Road with tennis courts near Stirling Terrace. Folewood Road becomes Fiennes Street at Masonic Lodge with bowling green and tennis courts 'under construction' opposite. Convent, Presbytery and Roman Catholic Church on Stirling Terrace. Court House on Reserve 2281 Fiennes Street opposite Lincoln Street with tennis courts and memorial park behind on Lincoln Street. Toodyay State School on Lot 16 Duke Street.
Stockyards on Stirling Terrace with siding from railway station and timber mill opposite station. Various railway structures away from station also shown.
One possible SG rail 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.

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cwa-org-37-2018.10t

Item type

Documents

Width

79 cm

Height or length

201 cm

Keywords

Avon River

Standard Gauge Railway

Masonic Lodge

Court House, Toodyay

Western Australian Government Railways

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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