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

Railways, roads & transport, 1886

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The Railway King

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 4

THE RAILWAY KING.—A London paper of January 18 says:—"The death a day or two of George Hudson, better known to the British public of forty years ago as the…

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Railway Extension

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 4

WITH regard to the extension of the railway from Tenterfield to the Queensland border, we learn that although the tenders were opened oil the 19th January, no decision respecting them has been…

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Railway Accident on the Little Zigzag

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 2

NEWS was received in Sydney on Monday that a railway accident had happened on the little Zigzag near Penrith. On inquiry at the Railway Department our reporter was informed that the 32 up…

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Amalgamated Railway Employes' Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 4

THE Commissioner for Railways has written a minute on the subject of the proposed formation of an "Amalgamated Railway Employes' Association." Mr. Goodchap expresses the opinion that an…

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The Braidwood Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 4

Mr. Charles Edward Hogg, Railway Surveyor in connection with the Railway Department, has been engaged this week in making an official inspection of the line lately asked to be surveyed between…

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The Natural Bridge of Virginia

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 4

THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA.–The natural bridge is one of those few things that neither words nor painting can adequately describe. It is a real bridge of…

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An Electrically propelled Tramcar

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 March 1886 · page 4

THE Election states that further letters and newspapers received from its correspondent in Berlin gives full accounts of the trials and progress of Reckenzaun's electrically propelled tramcar,…

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Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 3

AN accident occurred to the tourist's train which left Bathurst at 4 o'clock last Monday morning. Considerable damage was done to the engine and some of the…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident occured at Bowenfels, on Thursday. As the midday passenger train was leaving the station a line-man named Cuthrie was bidding good-bye to…

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Our Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 March 1886 · page 2

WE learn on reliable authority Unit on the completion of the permanent survey of the Crookwell railway tenders will be called for the construction of the line…

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Farmers' Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 3

THE farmers' train which left Goulburn on Thursday afternoon contained between 500 and 600 passengers. Only about 40 passengers joined the train at Goulburn. We suppose this result will be…

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Queanbeyan. Railway Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 7

In response to a requisition signed by most of the business men in the town, a public meeting was convened by the Mayor (Cir. J. J. Wright) on Tuesday last, to consider the propriety of a…

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Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 4

WE (Gazette) learn on reliable authority that on the completion of the permanent survey of the Crookwell railway tenders will be called for the construction of the line. The plans and books of…

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Railway Employees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION from the promoters of the proposed Railway and Tramway Employees' Association waited upon Mr. Goodchap, the Commissioner for Railways, on Monday, and asked him to cancel the…

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Road from Bungendore to Hosking Town

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 3

A deputation was introduced to the Minister of Mines on Wednesday, by Mfr. O'Sullivan, M.L.A., asking that a road should be opened between Bungendore and Hosking Town, a distance of 16…

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The Braidwood Railway. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 3

SIR,—I see by a paragraph in your issue of the 23rd March, taken from the Braidwood Dispatch, that our Braidwood neighbours seem to be in a great hurry to the railway to Braidwood without…

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The Braidwood Railway. To the Editor of the Evening Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 7

MR. EDITOR,—I see by a paragraph that appeared in your issue of the 23rd instant, taken from the Braidwood Dispatch, that our Braidwood neighbour seem to be in a great hurry to get the railway…

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Parish Roads

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

IT is proposed to open and make the undermentioned parish road:--Road from a road at the north-west corner of D. McRae's 40 acres, C.P. portion No. 144,…

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Formal Opening of Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 7

NOTICE is given that the following line of parish road has been formally opened for public use:— Road from Cooma to the south boundary of portion No. 13, parish of Myack, county of Wallace, being…

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Railway Employees' Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 4

THE deputation from the proposed Railway Employees' Association waited upon the Minister of Works on Friday morning in reference to Mr. Goodchap's minute on the…

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