Armstrong, Victoria

Town in Victoria, Australia
37°12′49″S 142°53′34″E / 37.21361°S 142.89278°E / -37.21361; 142.89278Population88 (2021 census)[1]Postcode(s)3377Location
  • 217 km (135 mi) W of Melbourne
  • 102 km (63 mi) W of Ballarat
  • 10 km (6 mi) NW of Ararat
LGA(s)Rural City of AraratState electorate(s)RiponFederal 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 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. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Armstrong (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 November 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 11 February 2021
  3. ^ Switching-out Armstrong Waugh, Andrew Australian Railway History, August, 2005 pp. 283–303
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