Armstrong, Victoria
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| Postcode(s) | 3377 |
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| LGA(s) | Rural City of Ararat |
| State electorate(s) | Ripon |
| Federal Division(s) | Wannon |
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 town began as a gold-mining settlement, with a Post Office (Armstrong's) opening on 1 January 1859,[1] 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.[2]
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- ↑ Switching-out Armstrong Waugh, Andrew Australian Railway History, August, 2005 pp283-303
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