Accident on the Victorian Railway
SOME of the visitors to Melbourne on Tuesday by rail had a narrow escape from serious if not fatal injuries, through ail accident which occurred about half past nine o’clock,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1870
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Suggestions Concerning Roads, Bridges, and Causeways: a Letter to the Hon. John Sutherland, M.P., Minister for Works
WE would most earnestly recommend the subject matter of the above really able letter to the attention of all who have the real interests of the colony at heart. In these days of superficial…
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AMONGST the notices relative to emigration in the news by the mail, our readers may have observed a statement that some gentlemen from the United States have arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Railway Timetable
THE changes now determined on will place Goulburn and all the country beyond, including not only the territory on the main line to Melbourne, but also the important Braidwood,…
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WE would most earnestly recommend the subject matter of the above really able letter to the attention of all who have the real interests of the colony at heart. In these…
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A NEW railway time-table is about to be issued; and the Sydney daily journals have been supplied with particulars of the changes to be made. From these it appears that from the 1st proximo but one train…
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ON Monday afternoon a public meeting convened by requisition to the mayor was held in the hall of the mechanics' institute for the purpose of eliciting the opinion of the district with reference to the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Goulburn Railway Deputation
THE Evening News gives the following report of the deputation that waited on the minister for works on Wednesday last. We may add that we hear on reliable authority that at a meeting of the executive…
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A MEETING was held at Dennis's Commercial Hotel, Taralga on Saturday, for the purpose of devising the best means of having the present line of road from Taralga to Goulburn proclaimed to the…
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THE London Times gives the following interesting account of the above invention, which, as will he seen, is likely to furnish most important facilities for purposes of…
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THE proposed alteration of the railway timetable, which is to take effect to-morrow (Friday), is deservedly meeting with universal disapprobation. Judging by the tone of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Who Should Pay for Roads? to the Editor
SIR,—One of old time said, "of whom do kings of the earth take tribute ? not from their own children, but from strangers in blood." That wise saying is very little considered by young Australians. Instead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fairlie Railway System
IN a communication to the Freemantle Herald of the 11th ultime, Mr. Fairlie, C.E. says:— "I am prepared to build railways of three feet gauge that shall work as many tons per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fearful Railway Accident: Sixteen Persons Killed
The following account is from an eye-witness of the accident:-- "The train left King's-cross at 9.20 p.m., and the run was rapid and safe until the train neared Newark. It appears that a goods train was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Romance of a Railway Carriage
IT was a close and sultry afternoon towards the end of July. The Dover express was about to start from the London-bridge terminus of the south-eastern railway, and…
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THE meeting advertised to be held at the Retreat Inn, Mummell, for the purpose of considering the advisability of retaining the old line of road by Rossi's crossing-place, took place on Wednesday…
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THE author of the pamphlet, briefly noticed in these columns some weeks ago, who, under the signature of Vox e Deserts, gave expression to some very practical views on the…
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THE public meeting hold on Monday last to endeavour to induce the government to take steps for enforcing a very necessary and useful reform in the mail service—a compliance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn and Wheeo Road
A MEETING was held on Friday the 19th instant, at the Gullen Inn, Gullen, for the purpose of considering the propriety of retaining the old road by Rossi's Crossing-place. There were about fifty persons…
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By reference to the debate on the motion of Mr. M. W. Kelly for placing on the supplementary estimates of 1870 the sum of seven thousand pounds for the construction of a…
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