Sugar House Bulletin | 1947-09-19 | Page 7 | Australia to Standardize Rails over 18,000 Miles

Australia to Standardize Rails Over 18,000 Miles Australia's independent state railroads now plan to adopt the standard gauge, which means relaying re-laying the 18,000 of the 24,000 miles of tracks that are using other gauges. This chaotic situation, situ-ation, which requires passengers and freight to be transferred from one system to another as many as four times between certain cities, has existed for 94 years, incurred an economic loss of $2,-400,000,000 $2,-400,000,000 and will cost to correct nearly $800,000,000.