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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
55 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Was it not Sydney Smith who said, in writing of the lamentable carelessness and indifference, shown by railway companies, in all matters concerning the lives of the passenger public, that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the railway approaches Marulan the people of this district will begin to feel a little more interested in it than they have done, and desire to learn something more about the fares, and freights, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RAILWAY SPEED.—A comparison of a large number of examples has enabled the railway commission to make the following statement:—In England the express trains…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE the those distressing and terrible casualties occurring from time to time on railways—which seem, in some inexplicable manner, suddenly to defeat every wise precaution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our last issue we gave a brief account of a terrible accident which occurred on Monday morning on the Great Southern Railway, close-to the Newtown station, by which one passenger was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,-- In the Yass Courier of the 18th inst. appeared a letter signed "Common Sense," condemning the site where the toll-bar, &c., is to be placed, viz., O'Brien's Bridge. Now. Mr Editor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,— Will you grant a small space in your columns for a complaint on the subject of railway fares at this end of the Southern line. Poor benighted Sutton Foresters cannot see the Justice of being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.-- Permit me to request the favour of your inserting the following remarks in the Yass Courier. Believing it to be a decided fact that the sum of 310l. is actually now ready to be expended in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A GOOD many years ago I was travelling with my husband to Italy. It was our wedding tour. Since then a good many things have changed. As I look in the glass it may be that my face has not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DEAR SIR,--In your issue of the 26th February, appears a rather strange account from your Gundaroo correspondent, respecting roads more particularly the track called the "marked tree" line,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.-- In your issue of Wednesday last appears a letter from Mr Fraser. accompanied by one from L. F. DeSalis, Esq, M P., commenting on a letter from your correspondent, and published by you. I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.--I am sorry to have once more to take up the pen to answer Mr Affleck's letter, 1st. Ha seems to feel sore that his name should have beau mentioned in Mr De Sali's letter: of course that I am…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE well-known George Francis Train was arrested on Friday, January 17, on board the homeward-bound Cunard steamer Scotia, off Queenstown. The arrest was made at a late…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.--Allow me space for a few remarks in answer to Mr Fraser. 1st, I admit I am interested in getting the marked-tree line established, hut for the public good as well as my own. Mr De Salis's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American papers give full details of a frightful accident which recently occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad, near Buffalo. The Rochester Express says:—“The train was some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR TRAIN delivered the third of his series of lectures at Cork on Wednesday night. He said--The British Government, I think, have made two blunders. Napoleon said la…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FURTHER instalment of sixteen miles of railway on the great western line was on Friday formally opened for traffic. Trains will in future travel as far as Mount Victoria instead of making Weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.--There is a road that has been in use for at least thirty years, known as the Wargiela road, which is now thrown put of use purely for want of a little repair. The progress of settlement and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] “Iron Horse,” who has been “ stepping out” to the westward with most praiseworthy alacrity, took yesterday another [?] stride of fifteen miles. He has come…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT ten o'clock yesterday the foundation-stone of the railway passenger-station at Goulburn was laid by Mr. William Davies, Mayor of Goulburn. The affair may be considered to have been quite…
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