Agricultural railways of Western Australia
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title:
Agricultural railways of Western Australia
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The agricultural railways in Western Australia were a system of railway lines that were built after the Western Australian 1905 Royal Commission on Immigration, which stated the need for a policy that "all considerable areas of agricultural land must have a 15 mile rail service." The lines were designed and constructed by the Public Works Department, for the Western Australian Government Railways.
The railways were identified in the early 1900s as specifically light with 40 lb rails, and require
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Railway lines in Western Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_railways_of_Western_Australia
date created:
2015-07-04T01:13:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T11:54:01Z
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