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Agricultural railways in Western Australia were a system of railway lines that were built after the Western Australian 1905 ''Royal Commission on Immigration'', which stated the need for a policy that "all considerable areas of agricultural land must have a 15 mile rail service." The lines were designed and constructed by the Public Works Department of Western Australia, for the Western Australian Government Railways.〔The WAGR did not have control over construction of its own railways until after the 1920s; see in relation to the contractors, PWD and WAGR relationship.〕 == Royal commissions == The Western Australian 1947 ''Royal Commission into the Management Workings and Control of the Western Australian Government Railways'' also placed these railway lines and their construction into context:
The 1947 commission called these lines ''spur lines'' at time of construction, in distinction to ''loop lines'', however the completion of most sections made most lines loop lines. The 1947 royal commission report also made a distinction between ''Southern Agricultural Spur Lines'', ''Northern Agricultural Spur Lines'', and South West ''dairy and timber'' lines; these broadly relate to geographical regions. In the 2000s the lines were collectively identified as Wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agricultural railways of Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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