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

Railways, roads & transport, 1886

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Railway Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 August 1886 · page 4

A MEETING of the Goulburn branch of the Amalgamated Association of Railway and Tramway Employee of New South Wales was held on Saturday night in the Temperance Hall for the purpose…

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The Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 August 1886 · page 4

WE understand that plans sections, and books of reference of the above railway have been forwarded from the Survey Department to the Minister for Works. After they have come before the Cabinet…

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Railway Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 August 1886 · page 2

THE annual ball of the Railway Quadrille Assembly will be held in the Academy of Music (Oddfellows' Hall) to-morrow (Friday) night. On this occasion the ball will be a plain and fancy…

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Alleged Attempted Rape in a Railway Carriage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 August 1886 · page 2

ON Monday evening, Miss Mary Ann Gray, of Morpeth, Newcastle, seated herself in a first-class carriage of the train for Morpeth from the East Maitland station. Just before the train started, a…

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The New Railway Bill

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 August 1886 · page 2

In the Assembly, on Tuesday evening, the Minister for Works introduced his promised bill, to make better provision fur the construction, maintenance, and…

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Confirmation of Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 7

THE following roads have been confirmed, and it is declared expedient to open and make them, according to the plans and books of reference, to be seen at the Police Offices at Taralga and Binda…

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Road Mummel to the Junction

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 4

ROAD MUMMEL TO THE JUNCTION.—The following communication from the commissioner and engineer for roads has boon received by Lieutenant-Colonel Holborow M.P. :—…

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Blocking up an old Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 6

FOR many years there has been a road from the Shoalhaven River to join the old Cooma road by Bendoura and Ballalaba at the lower crossing of the Jembaicumbene…

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Assault in a Railway Carriage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 6

IN the Morpeth Police Court on Wednesday Henry Miller was charged with having attempted to commit any outrage on Mary Ellen Gray, while travelling by train from…

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Railway Ball

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 4

THE annual ball of the Railway Quadrille Assembly was held in the Academy of Music (Oddfellows' Hall) last evening, and passed off very pleasantly. The attendance of dancers numbered about 25…

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Assault on a Young Lady in a Railway Carriage

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 4

West Maitland, Wednesday.— A determined attempt to commit a criminal assault on a young lady, about nineteen years of age, a resident of Morpeth, was…

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The Railway Sheds at Junee

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 3

We are glad now to be able to say that it is almost certain the sheds will not be shifted from Junee. Much real alarm existed there until t week or so ago. But facts and figures…

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Parish Roads

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1886 · page 4

The opening of the undermentioned roads has been confirmed. Applications for compensation must be made to the secretary for mines within forty days of the 13th instant:—Part…

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Government Railway Bill

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 2

THE Government are to be commenced for the introduction of a Railway Bill into Parliament, and in their endeavour to pass, the same into law, of co[?] with [?]ments, the…

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The Galong-Burrowa—Bowning-Burrowa Railway Routes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 August 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION Of gentlemen, who are anxious to have a railway constructed from Bowning to Burrowa in preference to that which it is proposed to construct from Galong…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 7

THE, following roads have been confirmed, and it is declared expedient to open and make them according to the plans and books of reference to be seen at the police offices mentioned. Any persons intending…

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Subsidence of Earth at the Prince's-bridge Works

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 6

THE report in a recent issue of the Melbourne Argus of the subsidence of a large portion of the embankment forming the southern approach to the Prince's…

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Railway Passes for all School Children

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 August 1886 · page 4

THE Assembly was occupied a number of hours of Friday night in discussing a resolution submitted by Mr. Stokes, one of the members for Forbes. In effect it was that a…

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Cooma Railway Terminus

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 August 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION, introduced by Mr. Dawson, asked the Minister for Works on Friday morning that the terminus of the Cooma railway line should be in the township instead of over a mile away. Mr. Lyne…

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The Railway Frauds

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 August 1886 · page 2

The second of the charges of conspiracy to defraud the Railway Department preferred by the Commissioner of Railways against Wright, Heaton, and Co., and…

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