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

Railways, roads & transport, 1874

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The Roads of Argyle and Georgiana

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 4

THE following letter has been addressed by the Roads Association to the honorable the minister for works:— Argyle and Georgians Roads Association,…

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The Manton's Creek Railway Works

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 2

IT is now nearly a twelvemonth since the camp was formed at Manton's Creek, and the heaviest works on the Southern Extension--to wit, the cuttings in the immediate proximity, to the creek,…

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Desperate Encounter in a Railway Carriage

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 6

A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield police-court, in which Mr. Jeremiah Farrow, a well-to-do farmer, from Old Newton Stowmarket,…

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Opening of the Warri Bridge

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 30 September 1874 · page 2

THE formal opening of the bridge which has just been completed across the Sholhaven River at Warri took place on Wednesday last. The demonstration on the occasion fully came up to the…

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Reserve From Sale on Account of Road Crossing. Lachlan District

The Burrowa News · Saturday 3 October 1874 · page 4

No. 688. County of Forbes, parishes of Mulyan and Merriganowry, at the confluence of Kooro-watha Creek to the Lachlan River, containing 116 acres. The Crown Lands within the following…

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Gullen and Crookwell Road. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 October 1874 · page 2

SIR,—Your Creekwell correspondent in his communication of the 28th ultimo (published in your issue of Saturday last) says:—"The road from Gullen to…

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Original Correspondence. Our Roads. (To The Editor Of The Burrowa News.)

The Burrowa News · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 3

SIR,—The state of the roads leading to this town has been a fruitful source of complaint during the [?] Their present condition is equally [?]actory, more especially the road between…

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Alterations in Railway Arrangements

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 4

ALTERATIONS IN RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.—It is understood to be the intention of the railway department as soon as the first lot of the additional locomotives now in band shall be completed to make…

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Opening of the Bridge Over the Wollondilly River

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 October 1874 · page 2

ABOUT ten o'clock yesterday morning the bridge at Marsden's Crossing over the Wollondilly River was formally thrown open to the public. Mr. Chauney, the road superintendent, and the mayor drove up in…

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The Railways

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 4

THE RAILWAYS—TOUR OF THE COMMISSION AND ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF.—On Thursday Mr. Rae commissioner for railways, and Mr. Whitton engineer-in-chief, arrived in Goulburn by train, and yesterday…

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Disastrous Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 8

DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—One of the most destructive railway accidents ever known in South Wales happened on August 12 at Bargoed station, on the Rhymney…

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Gullen and Laggan Road Via Crookwell.— Public Meeting at Crookwell

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 November 1874 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement in Goulburn Herald a public meeting was held at Mr. E. Stephenson's Commercial Hotel on Saturday afternoon last. The meeting was attended by influential landowners and…

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Fatal Accident at the Goulburn Railway-station

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 November 1874 · page 2

About five o'clock yesterday afternoon a total accident happened to a young man named James Wickham, shunter at the Goulburn railway-station. It seems that he and another man named…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon the city coroner (A. M. Betts, Esq.) held an inquest touching the death of James Wickham, a shunter on the railway, who was accidentally killed while following his…

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The Late Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 November 1874 · page 4

ON Wednesday the coroner, Mr. Betts, held an inquest on the body of Mr. James Wickham, chunter at the Goulburn railway-station, who met his death as reported in our issue of Wednesday last. The…

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Branch Railway to Berrima

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Thomas Garrett, M.L.A., Captain Caslow, M.L.A., H. Badgery, J. J. O. Atkiness, James Powell junior, J. B. Calvert, Mr. Smith Smith (manager of the Fitzroy Iron-Mines), J. De…

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New Railway Time-table

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 2

Reports are [?] that the government have under consideration the [?] of a new railway time-table, the [?] [?] which will be making the [?]…

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Dreadful Railway Accident—upwards of So Persons Killed and Injured

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 4

THE entire chapter of railway accidents, to which additions have of late years been frightfully numerous, has no parallel to this Great Eastern Railway collision near…

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The Late Fatal Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 November 1874 · page 2

ON Wednesday the coroner, Mr. Betts, held an inquest on the body of Mr. James Wickham, shunter at the Goulbourn railway-station, who met his death as reported in our issue of…

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Select Poetry. the Cross-roads

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 November 1874 · page 4

Where the roads crossed we met, My love and I; In the near bay the ships Tossed heavily;…

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