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

Railways, roads & transport, 1874

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The Great Eastern Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 2

NORWICH, Wednesday.—A painful incident has transpired today. Miss Murray, who was mortally injured in the collision, was to have been married this week. Her lover,…

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The Late Fatal Railway Collision

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 November 1874 · page 8

THE fatal collision on the eastern counties railway, by which twenty-four persons were killed and seventy more injured, could not but awaken intense excitement. And with…

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New Railway Time-table

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 December 1874 · page 2

A new railway timetable will shortly come into force. What we have long contended for, namely, that the mail-train shall be a passenger not a goods-train that it shall…

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The Wollondilly Bridge, &C. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Friday 25 December 1874 · page 4

SIR,—Permit me to supplement An Electer's letter (vide Goulburn Herald, 23rd instant,) with the following facts:—Mr. Butler in his Taral[?] speech said that he had been told by some one that an iron…

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The Illawarra Railway and Water Scheme. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Friday 25 December 1874 · page 4

SIR,—"Coming events cast their shadows before," and a few words that escaped Mr. Gray of Wollongong in one of his election speeches to the effect that Mr. Holt would guarantee the interest of the money…

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Railway Excursion

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

ON Saturday last (Boxing-day) the usual annual railway excursion under the auspices of the oddfellows lows of this district took place. The excursion wan very successful, between seven and eight hundred…

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