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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1888

174 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 9

Echoes Far and Near. The [?]weed Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1888 · page 2

[?], it is said, are being made sub rosa by some persons interested in Lismore, in conjunction with the Sydney syndicate that has large properties in the vicinity of what is known as…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League. Public Meeting at Lawrence

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1888 · page 3

ACCORDING to announcement, a deputation from the above (Messrs. See, Page, Munro, Bawden, Rutledge, and Varley), visited Lawrence on Saturday by steamer Lorna, kindly placed at the disposal of the…

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Grafton-glen Innes Railway. The "Australian Star" advocates its Construction

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 5

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—To-day's Star, in a leading article on the Grafton-Glen Innes railway, says:—"For several years past this proposal has been grossly misrepresented,…

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New Light Railway Trucks. Important to Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 3

A VERY important experiment in the interest of the farming and inland community generally is about to be made on the railways. The Minister for Works has decided, at the request of Mr. Haynes,…

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Railway Agitation at Glen Innes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 5

GLEN INNES, FRIDAY.—At the League meeting yesterday, it was decided to send one or three delegates to join the Grafton deputation to Sydney, and secure all the…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League. Meeting at Copmanhurst

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 5

ON Thursday evening a deputation of the League, consisting of Messrs. See, Page, Waterhouse, Bawden, Munro, Jacobs, M'Kittrick, Lipman, Varley and Rothschild visited Copmanhurst by the…

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The Commissioner of Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 4

THE railway men have taken action to present Mr. GOODCHAP, the Commissioner of Railways, with a testimonial. I am inclined to think that the movement will be successful. The first meeting was…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 8

AT a committee meeting held on Wednesday there were present—Messrs. Bawden (in the chair), Page, Waterhouse, Lipman, Munro, Varley, M'Kittrick, Hockey, M'Donald, Maurice, Davies, and Rev…

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The North Shore Bridge

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 4

SIR HENRY PARKES is to be banquetted by his constituents. Perhaps they will seize the occasion to extract another promise from him with respect to the bridge to North Shore. He pledged his word…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 8

A MEETING of the Executive Committee of the I[?]gue was held at the Secretary's office on Wednesday. Present—Messrs. See (chairman), Waterhouse (treasurer), Page (secretary), Varley, Bawden,…

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Letters to the Editor. The Grafton-Tweed Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1888 · page 2

THE Editor does not bold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. SIR.—In your issue of 18th, the writer of the remarks under the heading " Grafton-Tweed…

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The Authorised Lines of Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1888 · page 4

As some indication of the view taken in respect to the authorised lines of Railway, we take the following from the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1887. Under the head of…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 3

AT a meeting of the committee held on Tuesday there vere present:—Messrs. S. See (in the chair). Waterhouse, T. Page, Lipman, J. M'Donald, Maurice, Bawden, M'Kittrick, J. Davies, Varley,…

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The Railway and Harbour Works Deputation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 2

SIR.—I observed in a recent issue that it was proposed that this deputation should wait on the hon. the Minister for Works on some day in the first week in November. My object in trespassing on…

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The Illawarra Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1888 · page 2

THE event of the week has been the opening of the Illawarra railway. The weather was extremely fine for the ceremony, and a great crowd of people went to Wollongong to be present at the…

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The Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 3

THE Inverell Times says:—The Clarence folk are not letting the grass grow under their feet in the matter of railway agitation. There is a " swing " about it that makes one feel the earnestness of the…

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Our Railway Lines. The Nature of the Country passed over

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 3

IN dealing with this subject I propose to follow the surveyed routes through the different counties comprising our district, and only so far as my own personal knowledge of the different localities…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 8

A MEETING of the Executive Committee was held on Wednesday. Present—Messrs. S. See (chairman), Waterhouse, Page, Bawden, M'Donald, Manrice, Lipman, Varley, Hockey and Butledge…

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An Electric Mountain Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 8

HITHERTO it has been considered impossible to construct a funicular mountain railway with a curve; but the new line up the Burgenstock has achieved that feat under the superintendence of…

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The Glen Innes-Inverell Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 5

THE following ia extracted from a letter in the Evening News, signed John Smith:— Sir,—On the advent of the assembling of Parliament, it may not be out of place for one who…

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