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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1870

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Terrible Railway Accident Near Carlisle

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 August 1870 · page 7

About one o'clock on Sunday morning a terrible accident happened to the midnight mail from Carlisle to the South. The train, one minute behind time, left Carlisle Citadel Station at 12.48 a.m.,…

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George Francis Train's Lecture to the Fenians

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 September 1870 · page 4

THE Siou[?] City Times publishes G. F. Train's lecture to tho Fenians, and such is the editor's veneration for George Francis that in his zeal he is constrained to interlard the report with…

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How to Preserve Our Roads

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 October 1870 · page 7

ATTENTION was called in the Assembly, last week, to the state of the roads of the colony, and a suggestion was made as to the advisability of prohibiting the use of…

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The Yass Bridge Works

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 October 1870 · page 4

THE YASS BRIDGE WORKS.—The footway over the Yass River was opened to the public on Saturday last, and promises to be a great convenience. Although not very handsome, it appears strong and…

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Yass Bridge

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 2

The tender of Messrs. t. Smithyman and T. Bartholomew for the re-construction of the Yass bridge has been accepted by the government…

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The Railway Speculators' Ring

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 October 1870 · page 3

THE acclimatisation in South Australia of that peculiarly American institution the " ring" is a most unsatisfactory piece of intelligence to derive from thence…

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Tramway to Braidwood

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 November 1870 · page 6

THE only reason we can assign for the apathy evinced in this district in regard to the project of constructing a tramway to Braidwood is that considerable doubt exists as to the…

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Articles From Bygone Heralds. No. Ii.—railway to Braidwood

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 November 1870 · page 8

THERE are many persons who take up al idea without giving it due consideration, and who most energetically act up to their own notions, without ever pausing to consider…

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George Francis Train at Marseilles

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 November 1870 · page 7

A correspondent of the Observer, writing from Marseilles on the 6th, says:-- Mr. George Francis Train has issued another stirring address, full of egotism and exclamations. "America…

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Carriage of Hay, &c., on the Railways

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 3

CARRIAGE OF HAY, &c., ON THE RAILWAY.—The rates for hay, straw, and chaff, pressed, in lots of not less than one ton, at per ton, to be loaded by owners, and trucks unloaded by the railway department, has…

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The Proposed Tramway to Queanbeyan and Braidwood

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 December 1870 · page 6

The Braidwood Monitor says that the government are rather more favourable to the establishment of the Queanbeyan line no there is a greater scope of country for its extension at any…

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LOCAL INDUSTRY.—No. V. the Railway Station-master’s Residence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1870 · page 2

IN the course of our perambulations through the highways and bye ways of the city our attention was drawn to the new building, now nearly completed, intended for the residence of our…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 December 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the Permanent Railway Progress Committee, called by Mr. T. Laidlaw, in compliance with a numerously signed requisition, was bold at Yass, on last Tuesday, at the…

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