The Warri Bridge
The bridge over the Shoalhaven River will soon be un fait accompli. Years ago the residents of this district did all they knew to get on the soft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1874
66 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 4
Railway Department
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT.—Three new offices have been created in the railway department—those of inspectors of traffic Mr. A. Crawford has been appointed for the suburban line, that is from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fitzroy Bridge. To the Editor of the Evening Post
SIR,âIt is fair to assume that the .Road Inspector is perfectly acquainted with his official instructions, and that he is acting upon them with respect to the above bridge. But a gross mistake has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Extension Towards Cootamundra
WE subjoin, in their order, the different properties (with names of owners, &c.) through which the Southern railway line passes, after leaving the "original" railway station site at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Site of the Railway Station
THE subjoined letter was received on Wednesday by Mr. Thomas Laidlaw, J. P., the Convener of the Yass Railway Extension Committee: -- Department of Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. the Railway Works. Mcgrath's to Seddon's Cutting
LAST Wednesday morning, at 9 a.m., I started with a friend to take a look at the works now in progress between the site originally proposed for the Yass station, opposite the Telegraph Inn,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheeo Road
A special grant of £500 has been authorised by the government for the formation of that portion of the Goulburn and Wheeo road known as Rossi's Hill. This road, in length…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Platform at Manton's Creek.--public Meeting
A NUMEROUSLY attended public meeting was held at Rowen's Hotel, Manton's Crook, on Friday last, for the purpose of taking steps to memorialise the Government for the erection of a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Platform at Manton's Creek
A MEETING of the committee appointed at a public meeting held at Manton's Creek on the 26th ultimo, to draw up a memorial to the Minister for Works rotative to the erection of a platform…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revocations of Temporary Reserves on Account of Trial and Marked Lines for Railways
THE Minister for Lands has published in the Government Gazette a notification, dated Sydney, 7th July, 1874, which states that his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Poetry. Camping Out: a Bushman's Rhymes on the Road
Pegasus takes a "preliminary" just to show his colours:--Go, little Harp, I fling thee o'er life's main Of troubled waters with contentions rife,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reservation of Land for Railway Purposes
The Commissioner for Railways to the Under-Secretary for Lands Department Public Works, Railway Branch Sydney,19th May, 1873…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways
The following returns respecting trial-sur-veys ordered by the minister for works, reports on their progress by Mr. Whitton, and correspondence respecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Causeway V. Bridge. to the Editor
SIR,—At last it is determined to put a bridge across the Yarralaw Creek, on the Bungonia and Lake Bathurst road, which will cost one hundred and fifty pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improved Railway Carriages
important and valuable improvement in the way of locomotion is achieved by Colonel Pullman, the American inventor of the sleeping carriages, now in use in his own…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Queanbeyan Bridge
A MEETING of the inhabitants of Queanbeyan was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday afternoon to consider the advisability of celebrating the re-opening of the bridge spanning the river in Queanbeyan,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Road at Garroorigang
Our attention has been called to the bad state of the Braidwood road at Garroorigang between Mr. Belcher's house and this now forms the worst part of the road for many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Works.--yass to Murruburrah
THE following items as to the railway works I have been able to pick up while en route to Young to report the proceedings at the Burrangong" Pastoral and Agricultural Association's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on the Railway
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon the ballast-train was coming up the gradient of 1 in 33 about two miles on the Goulburn side of Sutton Forest. It was loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manton's Creek Railway Platform
A MEETING of porsons interested in the erection of a railway platform at Manton's Creek was bold last Tuesday afternoon, at Mr. Rowen's Manton's Creek Hotel. The attendance was not numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →