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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1853

10 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Tram Road From Bathurst to the Nepean

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 May 1853 · page 2

On Tuesday evening week a preliminary meeting, summoned at the instance of Mr. M. Connor, [?] U N. M Intosh Esqa solicitor stook place at Mr. Black's Royal Hotel, to consider certain…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Kst Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, May 7, 1853. the Tramway Movement

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 May 1853 · page 2

THE tramway movement in Bathurst, promises to be superseded by the Australian Chartered Railway Company, lately initiated in Sydney, which if there be any virtue…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Ket Veritas Et Prevalrbit." Saturday, May 14, 1853. a Railway or Tramway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 May 1853 · page 2

BY our report of the preliminary meeting which took place at the Royal Hotel a few evenings ago it will be seen that the necessity for some imporved means of…

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The [?] road company

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 May 1853 · page 3

THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LINE COME NCING AT BRTHURST AND TER[?] AT THE NEPEAN A DISTANCE OF EIGHTY MILES…

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Preliminary Prospectus. the Australian Chartered. Railway Company. To RR Incorporated BY Royal Charter, with Limited Liablility Deposit, (to create a fund for Preliminary Expenses 5s per share

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 May 1853 · page 4

THE geographical site of Australia always advertiageous entitles it in the present relative position of the commerce of the world to pereminent notice…

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Tram Road Meeting

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 June 1853 · page 2

In accordance with the advertisement of the previous Saturday, a meeting took place in the Court house, at 2 o'clock of Monday last, to consider the expediency to…

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Foreign Intelligence. Plank Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 June 1853 · page 4

We find in the Placer Herald the following article, furnished by Mr. E. Brown, of Spring Garden, on the subject of Plank Roads. It is from a report of O. G. Gates…

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The Australian Chartered Railway Company. (To the Editor of the Empire)

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 June 1853 · page 2

SIR.—I have refrained from noticing several advertisement that have recently appeared side by side in your paper with the prospectus of the undertaking I projected and have tried to…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions of our Correspondents. To the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. the Australian Chartered Railway. To the Inhabitants of the Town and County of Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 June 1853 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—I claim Very earnestly your sympathy and aid. Not, however, from bearing the noble name and being a member of that house which once foremost in Europe to extend the fame…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Kst Vkritas Rt Prevalrbit". Saturday, June 18, 1853. Plank Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 June 1853 · page 2

THE discussion which has recently taken place on rail and tramways, has fully convinced us of one fact, that unless undertaken by English capital, and prosecuted…

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