STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY 1946 FREO TO KAL SURVEY MAP REF: SG130/1R CCE 36344

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Overview

Avon River South Bank Contour Survey Map 1946 for Standard Gauge Railway
Map references SG130/1R CCE 36344 Mileage 51m 68ch - 53m 46ch (miles/chains). (82.21 - 86.22 Km)
Mileages on maps are believed to be calculated from Midland Station.
Within Shire of Toodyay Boundary.
Shows land contours with streams. No roads, tracks or rivers shown.
Cleared land, white gums and qartzite ridges. Ant Hill Ridge shown with Solar Observatory in viciinty. Slaughter house and pig pens from map SC129/1R shown. Tunnel 25 chain marked. (Now known to be Windmill Hill Cutting). Two streams shown before tunnel. Reserve 30c shown.
One 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-37-2018.10x

Item type

Documents

Width

79 cm

Height or length

201 cm

Keywords

Avon River

Standard Gauge Railway

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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