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

Railways, roads & transport, 1883

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Parish Roads

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1883 · page 2

Preliminary notification has been given of the intention to open and make the undermentioned parish roads:—Road from a reserved road on the north boundary of A. Webster's (now A…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Roads

Southern Argus · Thursday 1 March 1883 · page 2

Part of the road from Brungle to Tumut, through D. and A. McGruer's (now W.P. Edward's) C.P's of 138 acres and 40 acres, portions Nos. 29 and 95, and D. and A. McGruer's 106 acres, portion No. 30,…

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Railway Employes. to the Editor

Southern Argus · Thursday 1 March 1883 · page 3

SIR,—I would feel grateful if you, or any of your readers, would enlighten me on the following matters:—1st. Is it true that employes of the traffic branch,…

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Electrical Railways

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 3 March 1883 · page 3

THE making of the electrical railway between Portrush and the Giant's Causeway marks an era in the history of locomotion. If the sanguine hopes of its projectors are…

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Trial of Railway Officials for Manslaughter

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 3 March 1883 · page 3

The trial of Benjamin S. Thompson and William Hunt for the manslaughter of W. C. Thomas, on 2nd December 1882, was concluded in the Melbourne criminal court oil Tuesday. Thompson was the…

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Refrigerating Apparatus to Be Used on Railways

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 3 March 1883 · page 7

THE, frozen meat industry is one of which too much cannot be spoken or written. At present we know little or nothing about conducting it in a scientific manner. Like…

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Queanbeyan Railway Extension and Station Site

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 March 1883 · page 3

Mr. Gale, secretary to the deputation lately appointed to wait on the hon the minister for works, to urge the calling for tenders for the further extension of the Goulburn to Cooma railway, has…

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Subordinate Roads

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 March 1883 · page 2

The following shows the proposed distribution of vote on the estimates for subordinate roads under the officers of the roads department within the districts in which this paper…

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Formal Opening of Parish Roads

Southern Argus · Saturday 17 March 1883 · page 2

Road from the Goulburn and Tuena road, within D. Macpherson's 6.10 acres, Liggan, to the cast boundary of that land, being part of the road from Laggan to Taralga, parish of Laggan, county of…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1883 · page 4

A very sad and painful accident occurred at Windsor on Saturday, not far from the railway station. In the afternoon the volunteer camp was visited by a large crowd of people. Among those…

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Terrible Accident on the Pacific Railway

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 31 March 1883 · page 6

One of the chief in the list of horrors with which the year opened was the accident on the Southern Pacific road between San Francisco and Los Angeles, at a place…

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The Southern Argus. Published in Goulburn. Truth, ever lovely since the world began, The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.—CAMPBELL. Goulburn, Tuesday, April 3. Injustices to Railway Travellers

Southern Argus · Tuesday 3 April 1883 · page 2

THERE is scarcely any of us who is not compelled to take advantage of the railway as a means of travelling from time to time, and certainly the benefits arising from this mode…

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Goulburn to Cooma Railway

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1883 · page 2

A public meeting was held last week at Cooma, the mayor in the chair. Mr. H. S. Badgery, one of the members for the district, was present. A resolution was, passed "That…

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Extraordinary Occurrence in a Railway Tunnel

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 3
Also in The Yass Courier

A TRAGIC affair occurred near Manchester on February 12. On the arrival at Radcliffe of the express passenger train leaving Ducie Bridge, Manchester, for…

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Extraordinary Occurrence in a Railway Tunnel

Southern Argus · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 4

A tragic affair occurred near Manchester on February 12. On the arrival at Radcliffe of the express passenger train leaving Ducie Bridge, Manchester, for Baycup, at…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway Works Near Young

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 12 April 1883 · page 3

Young, Tuesday.—A fatal accident occurred this morning on the railway works, within three miles of the town. A young man named Chas. Luxom was in the act of jumping on a passing truck,…

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A Mixed Train

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 6

ON some of the western roads they attach a passenger car to a frieght train and call it "mixed." It isn't in order of things that such trains should travel very rapidly, and…

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Outrage on a Railway

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 April 1883 · page 4

A DESPERATE railway outrage is reported to have taken place near Genoa. A young German and his wife, who had been spending their honeymoon at…

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Terrible Accident on the Pacific Railway

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 April 1883 · page 4

ONE of the chief in the list of horrors with which the year opened was the accident on the Southern Pacific road between San Francisco land Los Angeles,…

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