Armstrong,_Victoria

Armstrong, Victoria

Armstrong, Victoria

Town in Victoria, Australia

Not to be confused with Victoria Armstrong.

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.

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The population at the 2021 census 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

  1. [1]
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Armstrong (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 November 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 11 February 2021
  3. [3]
    Switching-out Armstrong Waugh, Andrew Australian Railway History, August, 2005 pp. 283–303


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