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Shire of Toodyay > Records

WA GOVT. RAILWAYS BOOKLET, NEW LIFELINE, 1966

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Overview

Western Australian Government Railways / Westrail booklet titled ‘New Lifeline’, published February 1966 for first traffic on dual standard gauge track from Northam to Perth.
22 pages.
Contains colour and mono photos.

Historical information

Paperback booklet about the WA Standard Gauge project to mark the first flow of traffic on the new major Australian Railway in Western Australia.
Photograph at the beginning of the text features the track at West Toodyay.
Toodyay is also mentioned elsewhere in the text.

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Registration number

cwa-org-37-2020.94

Item type

Themes

Social History
Transport > Railways

Material

Width

21.2000 cm

Height or length

14.3000 cm

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

Shire of Toodyay

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WAGR booklet, New Lifeline cover

pages 4 - 5 New Lifeline

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