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

Railways, roads & transport, 1884

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 May 1884 · page 7

IT having been deemed expedient to open and make the undermentioned parish roads, notice is given that plans and books of reference, showing the intended lines of roads in…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 May 1884 · page 3

IT having been deemed expedient to open and make the following parish road, notice is given that plans and books of reference, showing the intended lines of the road in…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 May 1884 · page 3

AN accident happened at about ten minutes to 1 o'clock on Thursday morning to the No. 46 up goods-train, running between Harden and Goulburn. At the points at Rocky Ponds the engine…

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Railway Extensions

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 22 May 1884 · page 2

The extension of the railway from Armidale to Glen Innes is to be opened on the 26th June. The extension to Mudgee is to be opened on the 7th July. It is expected that there…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1884 · page 4

IT having been deemed expedient to open and make the several Parish Roads mentioned hereunder, notice is given that plans and books of reference, showing the intended lines of the Roads in question,…

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Serious Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 May 1884 · page 2

ON Saturday morning, 17th may, an accident occurred to the goods and passenger train which left Auchland at 20 minutes past 6 a.m. for [?] which very nearly r[?] in dis[?]…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1884 · page 4

THE undermentioned parish road is to be opened, and notice is given that plan and book of reference are now deposited at the office of the Surveyor General in Sydney, and…

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Railway Survey

Southern Argus · Thursday 29 May 1884 · page 2

The surveyor's on the Woodhouselee route for the proposed railway to Crookwell are now within three of four miles of the town, and on the Gullen route they have reached the Gullen Flats…

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Gunning Railway Station

Southern Argus · Saturday 31 May 1884 · page 2

A party writing from Gunning, directs attention to the inconvenience and hardships which arise at the railway station there through no fire being lit either in the gentlemen's or ladies' waiting room…

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Railway Survey

Southern Argus · Tuesday 3 June 1884 · page 2

The trial survey of the proposed line of railway from Tarago to Braidwood is now completed. Its exact length is 30 miles 76 chains 80 links, or close upon 31 miles. The distance from Sydney to the…

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Railway Extensions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1884 · page 4

THE Engineer-in-Chief for Railways will leave Sydney on Friday evening next, to inspect the works on the railway extension from Armidale to Glen Innes, prior to the…

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Endangering the Lives of Railway Passengers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1884 · page 2

WALTER ABBOTT surrendered to his ball at the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions on Wednesday morning, before his Honor Judge Wilkinson, to answer a charge of having, on March 23, 1884, on…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 June 1884 · page 7

IT is declared expedient to open and make the following roads, according to the plans and books of reference, to be seen at the police offices at Goulburn and Taralga…

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Quarintined Roads

Southern Argus · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 2

A full meeting of the Board of Directors at which were present Messrs. T. Marsden, chairman, F. D. Badgery, J. Cropper, J. T. Burcher, I. Shephard, and the District Inspector, was held on Wednesday, 11th…

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Goulburn to Cooma Railway Extension Works

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 3

GOULBURN TO COOMA RAILWAY EXTENSION WORKS. —An advertisement from Messrs, A. Johnston and Co., contractors, appears in the Queanbeyan Times of Thursday last to the effect that work will commence…

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Fitzroy Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 2

"RATEPAYER," North Goulburn, writes calling attention to the state of the road at the approaches to the bridge now in course of erection over the Mulwarree. He says it is very dangerous. To…

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Run Over by a Railway Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 2

A MARRIED man named Daniel Cameron, living at Bundanoon, was run over by a train some time during Saturday night last near the Bundanoon station. The body, which was terribly mutilated,…

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Frightful Railway Accidest in Spain

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 4

FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SPAIN—SIXTY LIVES LOST.—A horrible railway disaster took place near Ciudad Real on April 26. The scene of the accident was on…

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Railway Weigh-Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 2

ABOUT three weeks ago Mr. P. McShane, of Auburn-street, forwarded to the Minister for Works a petition which he had drawn up, and to which he had secured the signatures of a number of…

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The Old Prince's Bridge, Melbourne

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 19 June 1884 · page 2

THE OLD PRINCE'S BRIDGE, MELBOURNE.—When the foundation stone of old Prince's bridge was raised on Monday a bottle was found in a cavity beneath, containing some parchment immersed in…

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