Gundagai Railway
The railway works are progressing rapidly towards the town (reports the Times). The plates are laid to Coolae. and the contractor's engine runs to and from Cootamundra daily, The station at Muttamn…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
335 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 17
Fatal Tram Accident
Sydney, May 4.—Mrs. Sarah Weir fell out of a Waverley tram car yesterday, and alighted on her head. She died this morning from the injuries received…
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A woman named Sarah Weir, 45 years of age, fell out of a tramear near the Charing Cross Hotel, Waverley, shortly before 7 o'clock on Sunday night. She alighted on her head. Some bystanders picked…
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AN accident, attended by rather curious circumstances, occurred at the railway goods shed weighbridge this morning. A man had his waggon load on the bridge, and in some way the king, bolt of it…
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A company has been started in New York, with a capital of £40,000, to build, "navigable trains of air-ships," in accordance with the designs of an inventor who has already…
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ABOUT midnight on Friday last, whilst preparing a shot at a cutting on the Bungendore to Queanbeyan railway, a little north of Mr. J. M. Forrester's Molonglo Bridge Hotel, a premature explosion took…
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While the Minister for Works was at Albury, on Wednesday, a deputation of business men urged him to substitute for the differential rates now levied on goods traffic…
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Sydney, May 13.—The contractors' train on the Bourke railway ran into a trolly and smashed it up. The passengers on the trolly escaped unhurt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Tramps. The Adventures of the King and Duke Afloat and Ashore
It was after sun-up, but now we went right on and didn't tie up. The King and the Duke turned out, by-and-by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped…
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Thomas Croak, miner, aged 55, was killed by a goods train near Ballarat East on Saturday. The deceased, who was intoxicated, was crossing the railway, when he fell between the wheels of an…
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Sydney, Thursday,—Cattle: 390 head were yarded at Homebush to-day. The attendance of buyers was not large, they having bought freely at the last two sales. The best average price obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Tramps. The Adventures of the King and Duke Af[?]oat and Ashore. (Continued from Last Issue.)
On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent and about ready to tumble in. The people had moved out of them…
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Attention has lately been drawn to an invention by a Mr. Webb in the use of "compound engines," which he has patented, and the right to which he is willing to allow this colony on…
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SEVERAL times have outeries boon made about sheep and cattle alleged to have been killed through neglect on the part of railway employes whilst conveying those stock from one station to another…
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We learn that the route decided on by the government, after careful consideration of all proposals, in that advocated at the public meetings held at Crookwell and…
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An inquest was held at Penrith on Monday concerning the death of a woman who was killed on the railway line last Saturday night between South Creek and Park station. The evidence was to the…
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There is published in another column an article from the Wagga Advertiser, dealing with what is termed the wool rate war. The bone of contention appears to be the wool trade of Riverina, and whilst…
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On Saturday last the members of the Railway Bridges Inquiry Commission—consisting of the president, Mr. G. A. Morell, C.E., Mr w. M'D, Courtney, C.E.; Professor W. H, Warren, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crookwell Railway. to the Editor
SIR,—On reading your paragraph of the above railway, in this day's issue, I was reminded of a little boy who many years ago attended with his mother a missionary meeting, and when the plate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Completion of the Pacific Railway
London, May 20.—The Canadian Pacific Railway, crossing the Dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has been completed…
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