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

Railways, roads & transport, 1861

25 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 2

The Roads of the Colony

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 March 1861 · page 2

THE sum of £45,000 has been passed in Committee of Supply, to be expended during 1861, on roads other than main roads of the Colony. Out of this sum…

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Shocking Accident on the Lond Chatham, and Dover Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 March 1861 · page 2

An accident of an alarming chatham which unfortunately resulted in the [?] of one passenger, a warrant officer, [?] Pattison, and injuries to several [?]…

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Opening of the Liskeard and Looe Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 April 1861 · page 4

Yesterday an event most gratifying to the people of Liskeard and Looe was commemorated at Looe. Far some yearn past there has existed a canal from…

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Street Tramways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1861 · page 2

The Street Tramway is at present a success. Hitherto it has been only applied on roads, not in the streets proper. A new line, extending from the west front…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Wednesday, July 24, 1861. Our Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 July 1861 · page 2

THE late heavy rains have added materially to the difficulty of trayersing the present line of road between Bathurst and the Metropolis, and in some places the…

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The Maw Road to Wellington. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1861 · page 2

SIE,—Some few months ago I read in one of the public journals, the lucubrations of some quari traveller, pointing out the Stoney Greek, road as the most eligible (in various respects)…

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Alarming and Fearful Accident at the Metropolitan Railway Works

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1861 · page 4

An accident of a very fearful character occurred on Friday morning at the works which are going on at the Euston-road, St. Pancras, for tho formation of the…

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Main Road Through the Towns

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 August 1861 · page 2

THE question referring to the main road through the lown, has caused a considerable amount of commotion on a small scale, amongst some few of our good…

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Maw Road Through the Town

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 September 1861 · page 2

We have been requested to announce that all parties employed by Mr. Bannatyne up to the 15th of last month, will be paid in the Court House, Bathurst, at 9…

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Railway to Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 September 1861 · page 2

The following are the portions of Mr. Whitton's Report referring to the proposed Western line, and not included in my letters of last week:-…

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She Railway Impetus

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 October 1861 · page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES is a colony of political hopes and fears-of promises and disappointments. Today a railroad and nothing but a railroad is the talk, and the…

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Railway to Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 October 1861 · page 2

At a meeting of tho committee recently appointed to prepare a petition to the government, the following was agreed to and is now in course of signature. We…

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Monster Railway Meeting

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 October 1861 · page 2

Ox Monday evening last a very large and highly influential meeting was held at the Court house, Bathurst, and by adjournment in the open air at the front of the Royal Hotel…

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Further Railway Movements

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 2

The railway petitions from Bathurst, which have been in course of signature but a short time, and which bear twelve hundred and seventy names were despatched by the Sydney…

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SYDNEY. Friday, 2 p.m. Railway Telegram

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 October 1861 · page 2

On Wednesday a fleeting of the Members of Assembly in the Parliamentary Reading-room, passed an unanimous resolution, that the Western Railway…

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Railway Meeting at Orange

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 October 1861 · page 2

Os Friday evening font pursuant to advertisement a public meeting was held in the large room of the Royal Hotel. Orange, for the purpose of discussing the railway policy…

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Progress of the Western Railway Movement

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 October 1861 · page 2

WE are enabled to inform our readers that with one exception, the co-operation of all the gentlemen communicated with at Sydney, has been secured for the purpose of obtaining equal…

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Railway Meeting

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1861 · page 2

A P[?] Meeting was held at Carcoar on Wednesday last consider to railway policy at the Government as exemplified in the [?] the table of te Assembly…

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Blaney. Railway Public Meeting

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1861 · page 2

The subject of railway exceasion to the Wet District has [?] excitement in this township [?] meeting. without the and [?] advertisement or pl[?] has…

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The Bathurst Free Press. Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit. Wednesday, November 6, 1861. the Railway Discussion

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 November 1861 · page 2

FROM the way in which the subject of railway extension to the Western Districts has been taken up by the local journals, other than those of Bathurst…

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