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

Railways, roads & transport, 1858

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

Western Roads. [?] Table (To 30 April [?] Hartley and [?]Urst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 January 1858 · page 3

To leave Hartley daily at 8 A.M. Monday excepted and arrive at Bathurst at 5 P.M. and on return, in leave Bathurst at 2 A.M. daily Saturday, excepted, and arrived at Harrtley at 11…

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Omnibus Tramways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 February 1858 · page 4

The London General Omnibus Company, tiding upon a suggestion thrown out in this journal in August, 1856, air about to expend £50,000 of thier…

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Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 February 1858 · page 2

POLICE) COURT…

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Our Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1858 · page 2

As the most cllective reformer, and lost thorough civiliser of the age in which we live, the Railway has ever found a sincere and strenuous…

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Fatal Accident on the Great Southern Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 July 1858 · page 3

On Saturday morning, the down tram left the Parramatta station for Sydney at about 13 minutes to 9 o'clock and proceeded onwards at what might be termed good speed. The…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Kt Prevalesit." Saturday, July 17, 1858. Railway Communication

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 July 1858 · page 2

If ever the necessity of railway communication; between this district and the metropolis was brought, home to men's minds, it is now. We are taught the…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalesit." Wednesday, July 21, 1858. Railway Extension

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 July 1858 · page 2

The vote passed by the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday last cannot be regarded otherwise than as a most expressive indication of the opinion of the…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Vshitar by [?]. Saturday, August 7, 1858. Our Public Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 August 1858 · page 2

THE necessity of improved communication with the metropolis in it subject which has been so frequently insisted upon in these columns, that we would…

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Opening the Austin Bridge

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 August 1858 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last, according to arrangement, the ceremony of opening and naming the Austin Bridge, in [?] street, tool place. At 4 o'clock a considerable concours…

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Connecting France and England by a Bridge

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 August 1858 · page 3

Under the title of "An Iron Bridge between France and England" the French Moniteur contains a project, the realization of which would he one of the most gigantic works of the century…

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Evans Plains Creek Bridge

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1858 · page 2

The fallowing communication has been received in reply to a letter from the Warden of the District in reference to the construction of a bridge across Evans'…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Ket Veritas St Prevalsuit." Wednesday, October 27, 1858. Commencement of the Great Western Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 October 1858 · page 2

QUIETLY and without ostentation the first sod was removed on Monday week it Parramatta as the initiatory stop towards the construction of a line of railway to…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalesit." Saturday, November 27, 1858. Navigation of the River Murray and Western Railway Communication

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 November 1858 · page 2

HITHERTO our advocacy of the cause of railway communication between Bathurst and Sydney has been baaed upon the advantages which it possesses in a…

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English Extracts. Frightful Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1858 · page 4

A railway tradgedy, which approaches, in its lists of killed and wounded, the dimensions of a military combat, has occurred on the Oxford, Worcester, and…

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