Railways (Standard Gauge) Construction Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

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RAILWAYS (STANDARD

GAUGE) CONSTRUCTION.

12° Elizabeth II., No. LXIV.

No. 64 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Railways (Standard Gauge)

Construction Act, 1961.

[Assented to 18th December, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Railways (Standard Gauge) Construction Act Amendment Act, 1963.
(2) In this Act the Railways (Standard Gauge) Construction Act, 1961, is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Railways (Standard Gauge)

Construction Act, 1961-1963.

2.	The long title of the principal Act is amended	Long title
amended.

by deleting the passage, "Southern Cross to

Koolyanobbing," in lines two and three thereof.

3.    Section two of the principal Act is amended amended.

by deleting the passage, "Second," in line five.

4.    Section three of the principal Act is repealed repealed and

and re-enacted as follows— re-enacted.

the Public Works Act, 1902, it shall be lawful to 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in tott

deviate from that portion of the line as described in the First Schedule to this Act which consists of the portion of the line from Kalgoorlie to Koolyanobbing to the extent of ten miles on either side thereof, and to deviate from that portion of the line as so described which consists of the portion of the line from Koolyanobbing to East Northam to the extent of five miles on either side thereof, and to deviate from the balance of such line at a distance of one mile on either side thereof. .

5. The First Schedule to the principal Act is ojenabdule

repealed and

repealed and re-enacted as follows— re-enacted.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

KALGOORLIE-PERTH RAILWAY.

Description of Main Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point in the Kalgoorlie station yard at which connection can be made to the existing 4 feet 81 inches gauge Commonwealth railway and proceeding thence in a general westerly direction to a point adjacent to Koolyanobbing Hill on the area leased to Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd. (Yilgarn Loc. 1425) and thence in a general south-westerly and southerly

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direction to a point adjacent to Southern Cross Station and thence alongside the 3 feet 6 inches gauge railway built under Act number 55 Victoriae 12 of 1892 to East Northam and thence in a north-westerly direction along the valley of the Avon River to Toodyay and thence generally in a north-westerly, westerly and south-westerly direction along the valley of the Avon River to a point alongside The Midland Railway Company of Western Australia Limited's railway about seven and one-half miles north of Midland Junction and thence in a southerly direction alongside The Midland Railway Company of Western Australia Limited's railway to a point about three miles north of Midland Junction and thence in a south-easterly direction to a point alongside the 3 feet 6 inches gauge railway at Bellevue and thence alongside the 3 feet 6 inches gauge railway built under Act numbered 44 Victoriae 18 of 1881 to a point between East Perth and Perth.

Second

Schedule	6. The Second Schedule to the principal Act is
repealed.

repealed.

Third

Schedule	7.	The Third Schedule to the principal Act is
repealed and

re-enacted. repealed and re-enacted as follows

THIRD SCHEDULE.

MIDLAND JUNCTION-KEWDALE-WELSHPOOL

RAILWAY.

Description of Main Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point in Midland Junction station yard and proceeding thence in a westerly direction to West Midland and thence in a southerly direction alongside the railway to Kewdale and Welshpool authorised under Act number 62 of 1957.

Fourth

The Fourth Schedule to the principal Act and the passage commencing with the word, "Total" and ending with the number, "96" immediately following that Schedule, is repealed and re-enacted as follows

Schedule 8.

repealed and

re-enacted.

Section 2. FOURTH SCHEDULE.

KEWDALE-KWINANA RAILWAY.

Description of Main Line of Railway.

Commencing at a point in the Kewdale marshalling

yard and proceeding thence generally in a southerly

and south-westerly direction to junction with the

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Spearwood-Cockburn Cement railway constructed under Act number 33 of 1961 and thence in both a southerly direction to the southern terminus of the Coogee-Kwinana railway and a westerly and northerly direction to North Fremantle parallel to the 3 feet 6 inches gauge railways built under Acts numbered 3 Edward VII 17 of 1904, 61 Victoriae 31 of 1897 and 42 Victoriae 27 of 1878, and thence to Rocky Bay parallel to the railway built under Act number 63 Victoriae 51 of 1899. Also from Robb Jetty to Woodman Point parallel to the railway built under Act number 2 Edward VII 40 of 1902.

Total length of railways referred to in the above Schedules about 460 miles. The whole to be located as shown in red on maps marked C.E. Plans numbered 54405, 54406 and 54407 deposited pursuant to section 96 of the Public Works Act, 1902.