Cooma Railway Site
THE Engineer-in-chief has had a plan for the deviation of the Cooma railway prepared, in order to have the station nearer the town. The line will be a mile or so longer than under the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
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Preliminary Notification of a Parish Road
IT having boon deemed expedient to open and make the following parish road notice is given that a plan and book of reference, showing the intended line of the road in question, are now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Fares and New Arrangements on the Railway Lines
ON the 1st January increased fares came into force on the railway lines. Tile single fare to Sydney from Goulburn, second class, has been increased from 15s 6d to 16s; the excursion fare,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Express Train at Gunning
MR. T. COLLS, M.P., has received the following letter:—"Department of Public Works, railway branch, Sydney, 30th December, 1886. Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reduction of Railway Employes' Wages
We understand that circular instructions have been issued by the Commissioner for Railways that no new hand is to be taken on at a higher rate of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Southern Railway Changes
A very large and influential meeting of the milk suppliers of Moss Vale and district was held at Moss Vale on Friday to protest against the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retrenchment in the Railway Department
THE efforts of the Hon. W. J. Lyne to do what can and ought to be done in the way of retrenchment in the Works Department are producing important results. Under his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Serious Railway Smash near Petersham
ON Sunday morning a passenger trainâconsisting of five American carriages and one ordinary guard's vanâleft Ashfield, passing the signal-box about 5 a.m., On reaching…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Routes
AN undoubtedly practicable and fairly cheap route has been explored and aneroid levels taken on the proposed railway line from Coombing Park to Lang's Corner on Borenore, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident in the Goulburn Railway Yard
YESTERDAY morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, a terrible accident occurred in the railway-station yard, near the locomotive shed, whereby a young man named George Keys lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision
ON Sunday morning a goods train of 33 trucks ran into a passenger train which had been brought to a standstill near Petersham. A serious smash occurred,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage to the Southern Railway Line
DAMAGE TO THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY LINE.—The recent heavy rains have had the effect of considerably damaging the main southern line, and of rendering travelling by rail anything but safe. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Through Day-Train for Wagga Wagga
THE Minister for Works (Hon. John Sutherland) has directed that a goods train and passenger car to Wagga Wagga shall be run in conjunction with the day train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Express Train at Gunning
THROUGH the instrumentality of Mr. Colls, M.P., arrangements have been made by which the express train going up to Sydney will stop at Gunning when signalled. This will be a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junee Railway Employes' Club
SOME complaints having been forwarded to the Railway Department through the -Licensed Victuallers' Association on behalf of certain hotelkeepers at Junee that the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Men's Wages
A RECOMMENDATION was made by the late board of inquiry into the Public Works Department that the wages of the men employed in the railway branch should be paid monthly instead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preliminary Notification of Parish Road
IT having been deemed expedient to open and make the following parish road, notice, is given that a plan and book of reference, showing the intended lines of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New South Wales and Queensland Railways
THE rock excavations on the railway extension, from Tenterfield to Wallangra on the Queensland Border, where the proposed junction of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Wreck a Train
TUESDAY'S Melbourne Age contains the following account of a dastardly attempt to wreck a train on Sunday afternoon by some persons at present unknown. The driver of a train from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association
THE monthly meeting of the Goulburn branch of the above society was held in the lodge-room of the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday last at 8 p.m. Mr. R…
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