Re: Railway map of Victoria online

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

In article <19990703040430.01994.00008735@ng-cc1.aol.com>,
  markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1) wrote:
> Ballarat, the town, did have 2 A's but they dropped one A eons
> ago. If Ballarat has yuppiefied its name back to Ballaarat, all
> well and good but to the railway it is still Ballarat, thats
> the name that belongs on a railway map.

I Agree.  When I worked with the Bureau of Statistics in the late
1960s the town was Ballarat, but the municipality was officially
the City of Ballaarat.  AFAIK the city changed its name to the single
"a" in the last few years.

JD
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