AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS
J STANDARDISATION OF GAUGE ! Rec. 11 a.m. CANBERRA, this day. The Federal Government vester- ! clay adopted a plan for the "stancl- | ardisation of railway gauges in ; Australia. The work will not be i undertaken until after the war. | The Prime Minister, Mr. J. Cur- ! tin, said it took this war to bring ; home how badly standardisation ' was needed. | In 1942 Australia had 6131 miles ! of sft Sin gauge railways, 7296 miles 1 of 4ft Si in (standard British, Euro- ; pean and United Spates gauge), ana ! 13.011 miles of 3ft fiin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 15 March 1944, Page 5
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