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

Railways, roads & transport, 1872

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

The Liverpool Road Ghost

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 March 1872 · page 3

IN the month of May,1862, a pedlar was murdered at a certain part of the Liverpool road near the junction of the Dogtrap and Sydney reads, to which point the body was dragged…

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Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 2

THE following has been kindly handed to us for publication:- BATHURST CALOOLA CREEK. [Copy.] "Mr. Webb, M.L.A., has called to this office…

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The Bathurst free Press "Magna Est Vr[?]s Ec Preva[?]t." Saturday, May 4, 1872. the Railway to the West

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 2

THE recent upward tendency of our markets, occasioned by the dryness of the season, has forcibly reminded us as to the urgent necessity of having the railway…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prrvalrsit." Wednesday, May 29, 1872. RAILWAYS

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 May 1872 · page 2

THE battle of the Broad v. the Narrow guage for railways has been hotly contested by the advocates of each for the last twenty years or more, during which…

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The Growth of Railways

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 4

THE invention which enabled King George the Fourth to whirl from London to Windsor, at a speed with a luxury of motion so superior to that which Horace…

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The Great Western Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 2

WE are glad to perceive that Mr. Combee, the members of Bathurst has taken steps to bring under the notice of the authorities the evils we have heretofore complained of in connection with…

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Railway Rates

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 3

MR. Corars moved,— 1. That, in the opinion this House, the charges for the carriage of cods and passengers on the Government railways should be fixed by law. 2. That the…

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Macquarie Plains Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1872 · page 2

OUR readers will remember that on Saturday last we referred to the fact that on the Wednesday previous Messrs. E. WEBB and T. H. West, in company…

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The Tambaroora Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1872 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. James Campbell, M.L.A., Mr. D. Buchanan, M.L.A., Mr. John Booth, M.L.A. M.M Cuapinan (Mayor of Sydney) [?] Green and M.[?]…

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Railway Receipts. — Adjournment

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1872 · page 3

MR. COMBKS moved the adjournment of the House, in order that he night be afforded on opponunity of making a few remarks with reference to answers given to questions which he…

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Leap From a Mail Train. Extraordinary Escape

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1872 · page 3

A FEW says ago an trish gantleman named Fer guson left London for Dublin in a first class compartment of the Irish limited mail. All went well until after Rugby was passed which took…

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Leap From an Irish Mail Train

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Saturday 17 August 1872 · page 4

A FEW mornings ago an Irish gentleman named Ferguson left London for Dublin in a first-claws compartment of the Irish limited mail. All went well until after…

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Railway Meeting at Blayney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

A meeting was bold at the Royal Hotel, Blayney on Saturday last, the 31st ult., to urge upon the Government the necessity of bringing the proposed extension of…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 September 1872 · page 5

WE are indebted to the editor of the Kyneion Guardian for the following particulars of the late fatal accident on the Melbourne and Mount Alexander line :—…

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The Waterloo Bridge Mystery Exploded. (From the Weekly Dispatch)

Gulgong Guardian and District Mining Record · Wednesday 2 October 1872 · page 4

A STATEMENT having appeared in an Indian paper which has just reached England to the [?]that a soldier at Luck[?] [?] authorities at the…

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Great Western Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 2

MR. COMBES, in his place in the House, on Tuesday next, is to ask the Secretary for Public Works:—"1. When the original time expired for the completion of the works on…

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The Bridge at Eglinton

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1872 · page 2

EVER since the old Denison. Bridge was swept away by the great flood in 1867, and in its course down the Macquarie came in contact with, and carried away…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1872 · page 3

At thirteen minutes past 8 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd October a terrible accident happened on the Caledonian Railway, at Kirtlebridge Station, about seventeen miles north of…

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