Railway Workmen
A PUBLIC meeting was held last Tuesday evening at the Hall of Temperance, for the purpose of showing the grievous privations endured by the workmen on the Great Southern and Western Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1864
18 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
Road-making Near Yass. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
SIR,--The traveller between Yass and Bowning can scarely fail to be struck with the remarkable construction of the road. Leaving the Bow Bridge he ascends a winding aeelivity and arrives at the…
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YESTERDAY a deputation from the Great Southern Railway Progress Committee had an interview with the Premier at Mandelson's Hotel on the subject of the extension of the southern line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Robberies on the Binalong Road
--A correspondent suggests that as Emu Flat has been selected on several occasions for the exploits of bushrangers, it would be advantageous to travellers on the road from Bowning to Binalong were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cheap Railways for Australia
THE Sandhurst and Inglewood Tramway Bill, at present before the Victorian parliament, involves a much larger question than the interests of the locality immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southern Railway. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle
SIR,—I notice in the Empire of the 1st instant a leading article in which mention was made of Mr. Coppin at bone of his performances in Sydney alluding to the necessity of railway communication be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder at the Roads and Railways Office, Melbourne
LAST week will be long remembered in the city as remarkable for the occurrence of unusual and sensational incidents. The community had scarcely recovered from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Gardiner Sentenced to Thirty-two Years on the Roads. Sydney, Friday, 5.55 p.m
Parliament re-assembles on the 13th October. The Government have promised further enquiry into the death of James Kirwan. Gardiner's trial for shooting at trooper Hosie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Echuca Railway
IN october next, if no unforeseen impediment occur, we are promised the opening of the completed railway line from Melbourne to Echuca. One hundred and seventy miles, or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and Provincial. Bridge at the Old Township
THE meeting called to consider the subject of the bridge over the Wollondilly at the Old Township, Goulburn, took place on Wednesday at Mr. McAlister's, Strathaird Arms, Taralga Road, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RAILWAY. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle
SIR,—I was looking over the Builder in mechanics institute last evening, page 287, April the 16th, and a paragraph on English rail[?] returns struck me. It would appear amongst ot[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. the Road Between Yass and Burrowa. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
SIR,--A great deal of money is being constantly expended--or wasted--on the highways of the colony. The roadmakers certainly do not now lay down a foundation of small twigs, and cover them over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Completion of the [?] RAILWAY. [?], Saturday, Sept. 17
THE completion of the Echuna railway, a line which links the uttermost ends of the colony with an iron band, which connects [?] Phillip with navigable rivers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southern Railway. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle
SIR,—How various from time to time are the published reports relative to the extension of the Southern Railway to Goulburn! In your issue of the 13th of July last, in answer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Waterloo-bridge Mystery
Writing of horrors, I am reminded that a solution has been offered of the Waterloo-bridge Mystery. There are probably few of your readers who will not remember…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Perils of Railway Travelling
Close upon the heels of the Hackney atrocity, and the two railway outrages on females, has come another fearful illustration of the perils of railway travelling under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway-carriage Murder
Among such exceptional crimes may be mentioned the murder of Mr. Briggs, on the North London Railway, particulars of which were forwarded by the last mail. No fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Murder on the North London Railway
ON Monday morning, September 26, shortly after eight o'clock, Mr. Humphreys resumed the adjourned inquest upon the body of the unfortunate Mr. Briggs, at the Town Hall,…
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