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

Railways, roads & transport, 1886

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Collision on the Southern Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 4

GOULBURN was thrown into a state of great excitement on Saturday afternoon when it became known that an accident had happened to the tourist train at Bowral. Rumour, true to her character,…

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The Railway From Tarago to Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION from Braidwood, accompanied by Messrs. A. Ryrie, Solomon H. Hyam, and O'Sullivan, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works on Friday to urge that the plans, specifications, &c.,…

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The Railway Employees Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1886 · page 4

THE Hon. W. J. Lyne, Minister for Works, has written the following minute upon the proposal of the railway employees to form a Railway Employees Amalgamated Association:—"On the 9th April…

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Latest Telegrams. Serious Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 2

AT twenty minutes past 12 on Saturday the tourist train from Sydney containing a large number of passengers, collided with a goods train on the railway bridge, 30 feet high, a quarter of a mile…

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Bowral Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 May 1886 · page 4

THE inquiry will be commenced immediately by the examination of the officials in charge of the trains which collided and other persons who were present at the accident. A Bowral telegram of…

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Railway Employees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 May 1886 · page 2

A MEETING of all branches of railway employees will be held in the Temperance Hall on Saturday evening next. We hear that the business is to establish a branch of the Railway Employees'…

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Serious Railway Accident at Bowral

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 3

A SERIOUS railway collision occurred at Bowral on Saturday last, near the bridge, between the tourist train and a goods train. The No. 7 down tourist train from…

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Light Railways

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 2

THE report of Sir JOHN FOWLER, the eminent engineer, upon the construction of light lines of railways will form a valuable reference in the forthcoming…

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Railway Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 May 1886 · page 2

On Saturday last, between one and two o'clock p.m., a collision occurred on the Groat Southern railway at Bowral between the tourist train and a goods train,…

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Tuena Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 6

The following letter has been received by Mr. Garland, M.P.:—"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 22nd April 1886.—Sir,—Referring to your letter of the 7th instant upon the subject of the…

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The Bowral Railway Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

THE “ Gundagil Times” gives the following description of the accident which occurred on the southern line of railway, near Rowral, on Saturday last. It is from the [?]pen of an eye witness, who…

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Meeting of Railway Employees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 4

A MEETING of all branches of railway employees was held in the Temperance Hall on Saturday evening last in connection with the Amalgamated Association of Railway and Tramway Employees…

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The Line of the Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 4

THE Gazette says:—As it may interest our readers we may state that we have visited the route of the proposed line from Goulburn to Crookwell, which has now been trenched for its entire length…

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Bowral Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 2

THE Bowral Free Press of Saturday last says:—Those injured in the railway accident have, so far as we are able to learn, all recovered, or very nearly so, with the exception of Mrs. Hannaford, who still…

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Railway Employes' Association

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 3

RAILWAY EMPLOYES' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of railway employes was hold at the temperance hall Goulburn on Saturday evening for the purpose of forming a branch of the recently organised railway…

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Railway Employees

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of railway employees will be hold at the Mechanics' Institute on Saturday evening next, when Messrs. Schey and Reid from Sydney will be present as a deputation…

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Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION of Junes merchants waited on the Minister for Works on Friday to point out some disadvantages under which that township laboured owing, to the differential railway rates. Mr…

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Railway Employees at Penrith

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

ONE of the most orderly meeting over held in Penrith took place in the Temperance Hall on Saturday evening, to consider the advisableness of establishing a branch of the New South Wales…

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The Crookwell Railway Route

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 2

THE CROOKWELL RAILWAY ROUTE.—The route of the proposed line from Goulburn to Crookwell has now boon trenched for its entire length, thirty-three miles. Leaving the great southern railway at a few…

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The Express Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 6

THE necessity for the most rapid despatch possible being given to the express trains running between Melbourne and Sydney (the Argus observes) led some time since to…

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