Английская Википедия:Armstrong, Victoria
Шаблон:Distinguish Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox Australian place Armstrong (also known as Armstrongs) is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Western Highway, north of Ararat, in the local government area of Rural City of Ararat.
The population at the Шаблон:CensusAU was 90.[1]
The town began as a gold-mining settlement, with a Post Office (Armstrong's) opening on 1 January 1859,[2] and had a peak population of 516.
The Melbourne to Adelaide 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.[3]
References
Шаблон:Towns in the Rural City of Ararat Шаблон:Wimmera
- ↑ Шаблон:Census 2021 AUS
- ↑ Шаблон:Citation
- ↑ Switching-out Armstrong Waugh, Andrew Australian Railway History, August, 2005 pp. 283–303
