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

Railways, roads & transport, 1875

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Correspondence. the Sale of Liquors at Railway Stations

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1875 · page 4

To the Editor of the Yass Courier. SIR,--In your remarks contained in leading article of last Tuesday's issue I heartily concur. I shall not comment upon the various objections…

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Roads and Bridges

The Burrowa News · Saturday 12 June 1875 · page 2

IT will be remembered that a public meeting was recently held at Burrowa, for the purpose of enforcing the claims of the community to have a fair share of the public revenue expended in…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 4

THE South Australian Chronicle reports a inquest on the body of a man named Henry Burnett, or Barnett, which had been found on the north line of the railway. The jury…

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Yass to Woolgarlo Road

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 June 1875 · page 2

A MEETING of persons interested in the above road was held on Saturday last at Mr. Thompson's, near Waroo. There were present:-- Messrs. Bolding (in the chair), P. Thompson, J. Johnston,…

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RAILWAYS. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 7

SIR,—A report of a committee appointed by the English House of Commons in 1819 contains these telling and sensible words, “That next to the general influence of the seasons there is perhaps no…

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Progress of the Works on the Southern Railway Extension

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 July 1875 · page 2

THE rails on the Yass extension are now laid for twenty-four and n half miles—that is to within six miles of the town of Gunning. There is one difficult cutting a little beyond still in progress; but it is…

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Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 3

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—There was an accident upon the southern railway on Tuesday, by which the guard's van attached to a goods train was injured, as well as a freight truck. Two goods trains were…

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Public Meetings. the Roads.—wombat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting, to take steps for obtaining an advancement of classification of the road from Murrumburrah to Young, via Wombat, was held at the latter place, at Bonnor’s Australian…

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Accident on the Railway Extension

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 4

Thursday morning as [?] the contractors' engine left Goulburn, driving a track of coal before it and having several trucks with railway material behind. In addition, there were two or three gentlemen on the…

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Railway Refreshment-rooms in Queensland

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 July 1875 · page 4

THOSE who are petitioning against the sale of liquors at railway-stations in New South Wales would probably like to know how the system works in Queensland. A gentleman…

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The Newspaper Train

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 2

To have the Times on the breakfast-table is no longer a luxury monopolished by Londoners. Within the last few weeks a complete revolution has been silently effected in…

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The Road From Binda to Goulburn

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 August 1875 · page 2

A TRAVELLER sends us the following:—Binda is a small village situated about forty-two miles from Goulburn ; and the buildings around do not seem to boast very much of architectural design. A so-called…

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Convicts Capture a Railway Engine and Ride Off. (From the New York World, May 15.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 4 August 1875 · page 4

FIVE convicts, named Hawley, Fowler, M‘Kenn, Sullivan, and Boyle, escaped from Sing Sing Prison yesterday. The facts of the case, as obtained from eye-witnesses, are…

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Railway Excursion to Sydney

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 4

RAILWAY EXCURSION TO SYDNEY.—On Thursday an excursion-train left Goulburn for Sydney in conaexion with the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Daniel O'Connell. There were fourteen…

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Roads to Gunning. To the Editor of the Southern Argus

The Burrowa News · Saturday 14 August 1875 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—Permit me to correct a alight inaccuracy in your telegram of this morning. The road respecting which I moved in Parliament yesterday was not the road from Gunning to Yass…

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Railway to Gunning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1875 · page 2

A LARGE and influential meeting of the inhabitants of the Gunning district was held in the court-house at that township on Monday evening last, Henry Saxby Esq., J.P., in the chair…

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Bridge Over the Crookwell. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 4

SIR,—I observe by the Appropriation Act of 1875 that the sum of £350 has been placed for the erection and completion of a bridge over this stream at Long's Crossing. It is notorious that a more dangerous…

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Fatal Termination of a Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 3

The unfortunate man James Rogers who on Saturday last was crushed between two of the contractors trucks at Mutbilly on the Gunning railway extension and whose leg was amputated as detailed in our last,…

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The Late Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2

AN adjaurned inquest on the body of James Rogers, who mot his death by an accident on the railway works between Goulburn and Gunning, was bold at the hospital yesterday. The following evidence was…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1875 · page 1

THE adjourned inquest on the body of James Rogers, who met his death by an accident on the railway works at Frankfield, on the 4th instant, was held at the Goulburn hospital on Tuesday…

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