Armstrong (also known as Armstrongs) is a town in
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, located on the
Western Highway, north of
Ararat, in the local government area of
Rural City of Ararat
The Rural City of Ararat is an Australian local government area located in the western part of the state of Victoria. It covers an area of and in the 2021 had a population of 11,880.
The area includes the towns of Ararat, Armstrong, Dunne ...
.
The population at the was 90.
The town began as a gold-mining settlement, with a Post Office (Armstrong's) opening on 1 January 1859,
and had a peak population of 516.
The
Melbourne
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to
Adelaide
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railway passes through the town. In 1938, Armstrong was the site of an experimental installation of a radical form of railway
safeworking intended to bring about cost savings. It resulted in seven years of tortuous bureaucratic decision making.
[''Switching-out Armstrong'' Waugh, Andrew ]Australian Railway History
''Australian Railway History'' is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia, published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its state and territory Divisions.
History and prof ...
, August, 2005 pp. 283–303
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Wimmera
Mining towns in Victoria (state)
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