AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS
UNIFICATION SCHEME
PORT AUGUSTA-ADELAIDE
CANBERRA, February 3.
The Federal Cabinet has decided not to proceed with its rail gauge unifica; tion 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 that 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 is £1,169,000. This was expected to represent the first step towards the complete unification of the Australian railway system.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9
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98AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9
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