The Blayney-Murrumburrah Railway Works
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 4
THE contractors for the works in connection with the third section of the Blayney-Murrumburrah line are at present making vast progress. 260,000 cubic yards of stuff have been shifted. Nearly one-fourth…
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Goulburn Herald · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 3
We are in a position to state authoritatively that there is every probability of arrangements being made to open the railway line to Coolae by the 1st September. The…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 7
THE land specified hereunder has been reserved from sale for railway purposes:— County of Argyle, parish of Mulwaree, area about 230 acres, commencing at the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 June 1885 · page 3
THE surveyors, whose completion of the new line between Braidwood and Tarago we notified the other day, have now commenced the sectional survey, and, from what we learn,…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 June 1885 · page 2
THE above action, which was commenced on Monday morning, is one in which George Adams, a miner, seeks to recover £1000 damages from the government for injuries received in consequence of…
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Southern Argus · Thursday 18 June 1885 · page 3
On Saturday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, a frightful accident occurred at the Dubbo Railway Station, by which a man, named Thomas Evans, employed in…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 4
WALLERAWANG, Monday.--Between the hours of 9 and to p.m. on Saturday this usually quiet town was disturbed by a sudden shock, caused by the colliding of two trains in the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 6
THE arrangements made by the Railway Department to convey visitors to Sydney for the demonstration on Tuesday next have been published. The excursion tickets…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 6
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 line of the road in question,…
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Southern Argus · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2
Sydney, June 19.—The Government finds that the official opening of the railway to Bourke cannot take place before September…
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Southern Argus · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2
Sydney, June 19.—The Cootamundra railway accident action was continued to-day, and further adjourned. It is likely the trial will last all next week…
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Southern Argus · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 8
Between the hours of 9 and 10 p.m. on Saturdaythe usually quiet town of Wallerawang was disturbed by a sudden shock, caused by the colliding of two trains in the station yard…
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Southern Argus · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2
The excursion tickets issued at all stations yesterday and to-day will, for distances over 100 miles from Sydney, be available for return by trains leaving Sydney up to and inclusive of Monday, the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 6
A DEPUTATION, representing all the various branches of the Railway Department, waited upon Mr. Goodchap on Thursday morning to ask for his approval of the formation of the…
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Southern Argus · Tuesday 23 June 1885 · page 3
Sydney, June 22.—In the Cootamundra railway disaster accident action, the plaintiff's case has closed, and the evidence for the defence commenced. The case is further…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 June 1885 · page 2
A SLIGHT accident occurred to a goods train this morning near Stewart's Gardens. The engine broke down, and an engine had to be sent from the station to bring it and the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 June 1885 · page 4
A shocking tram accident took place in Crown-street, Surry Hills, on Friday night, at about half-past 10 o'clock, by which a man named. Frederick Hemmings received such…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 2
Intending visitors to the Lake Bathurst regatta to-morrow may proceed to the scene of the day's amusement by a special train which will leave the Goulburn station at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 2
AT the City Police Court, Melbourne, on Tuesday, Thomas Millidge, Alfred Ringill, John Alcock, and George Fortune were charged with robbing, under arms, the Simpson's-road branch of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Upset a Train at North Goulburn
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 2
ONE Of those attempts at train-wrecking which are becoming alarmingly frequent lately was perpetrated last night at the North Goulburn railway station. In this case the perpetrators are supposed…
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