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Rail Gauge Unification In Australia (Received February 3, 6.30 p.m.) Canberra, February 3. The Federal Cabinet has decided pot to proceed with its rail gauge unification scheme, involving an expenditure of £20,000,000 over a period of years, until the Port Augusta-Adelaide rail standardisation work is completed about two years hence. A message dated February 1 stated (hat Cabinet had decided to proceed with the construction of a line of standard railway gauge, linking Port Augusta and Adelaide, the estimated cost of which :e £1.169,000. This was expected to represent the first step towards the complete unification of the Australian railway system.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 111, 4 February 1935, Page 9
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