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

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

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

Freight of Goods on the Railways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 January 1882 · page 3

THE following is the report of the Parliamentary Board appointed to inquiry into the rates charged for the conveyance of goods on the New South Wales railways:—…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna est veritas et prevalebit." Wednesday, Jany. 25, 1882. the Railway Commission

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 January 1882 · page 2

THE report of the Board appointed by the Government to inquire into the system of rates charged for the conveyance of goods by railway, and which we published…

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Serious Railway Collision Near Melbourne. Melbourne

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 March 1882 · page 3

A railway collection which with the [?] of August last fresh within their [?] created intense alarm amongst the passengers, occurred on one of the suburban…

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Deputation to Minister for Railways

The Carcoar Chronicle · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 2

Mr. A. Lynch, M.L.A., on Friday morning last introduced a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Stimpson (Mayor of Carcoar), Dodd, Fagan, Connolly, and McKillop to…

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Captain Rads Ship Railway Scheme

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 3

NEW YORK, January 28.—A "Time" Washington special says:—Captain Eads and his [?] have been heard by a such—committee of the Senate committee an [?] on sup…

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Varieties. Railway Tunnels

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 April 1882 · page 3

The Austrian engineer & railway 'technician' Sehwelgen-Levanfield, in an article of the St. Gotherd Tunnel, in the Press of Vienna, gives the lenght of its most considerable…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna est veritas et prevalebit." Saturday, June 10, 1882. Railway Rates

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 June 1882 · page 2

THE Commissioner for Railways in this colony—Mr. C. A. GOODCHAP—is an extraordinarily clever in lividual. He is literally a double-handed workman, and as…

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Railway Rates on Farm Produce

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 June 1882 · page 2

THE Commissioner for Railways has been forced to see that a reduction in the rates is not only possible, but that a mistake was made in not making that…

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New Tramway Developments. a Building Wrecked

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 July 1882 · page 3

TRAMWAYS have already earned an unenviable notoriety on account of the number of deaths attributes directly to them, and the depreciation of properly in the streets through…

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Hay Railway

The Carcoar Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 4

The opening of the railway to Hay would appear an astounding event to the colonists of the early days. Thirty yean ago the trial survey was just beginning at Redfern. The…

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Railway Empoyees' Annual Diner

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 July 1882 · page 2

ON Saturday last a most enjoyable evening was spent in the large Hall of the School of Arts, the events being the annual dinner of the Railway Employees on the…

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Our Railway

The Carcoar Chronicle · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 2

ON Monday morning last, the welcome news reached Carcoar that it had been decided at head quarters, that the railway from Blayney to Murrumburrah was to be constructed…

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More Tram Accidents

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 2

TRAMWAY accidents are now becoming of such common occurrence that [?] they are allended with loss of life, they fail to excles more than a passing company. That the…

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Victorian Railways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 September 1882 · page 2

WE have received from Mr. Walter Reynolds, Secretary of the Carriage Timber Hoard recently appointed by the Victorian Minister for Railways a copy of a circular letter which…

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Rockley. Meeting on the Tram Question

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 September 1882 · page 2

ON Saturday 16th instant, a public meeting was held at the Club House Hotel for the purpose of taking steps to get a light railway or tram constructed from some point on the…

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Cable Tramways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 September 1882 · page 2

A CITIZEN of the United States, who has recently returned to that country from a lengthened visit to Australia, writes (says the Argus) as follows in a private letter…

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Railway Employers' Club

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 2

The employees at the Bathurst Railway Station have formed a Cricket Club, and by constant practice are fast coming into form. They have already accepted a challenge, and…

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Reduced Railway Rate

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 October 1882 · page 2

THE change to which, we referred in our last issue as having been made in the charges for goods and passenger traffic on the railway, appears to be a general…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna est veritas et prævalebit." Wednesday, Octr. 1882. Railway Accommodation

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 October 1882 · page 2

WHATEVER disadvantages commercial man may have to put up with in places where railway lines are run by private or quesi-public companies—and the feet that they…

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Our Railway Line

The Carcoar Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1882 · page 2

WE have received information on reliable authority that tenders for the construction of the railway line from Blayney to Carcoar, and cowra, en route to Murrumburrah, will…

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