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

Railways, roads & transport, 1887

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The Bridge of Suicides

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 4

THE body of John Summers, a youth 19 years of age, whose hat was found on the footway on the Clifton Suspension Bridge,Bristol, was discovered among…

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The Windsor Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 2

THE most sensational evidence given on Monday at the inquest on the deaths resulting from the Windsor railway accident was that given by R. R. Cameron, seedsman at Prahran, who was…

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N. S. W. Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 2

IN consequence of the death of Mr. G. T. Rawlings, who, it will be remembered, was killed at Bowral at the beginning of last week by a fall off a bridge, and who was a…

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The Alloged Railway Frauds

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 2

NOTHING further has been done by the Government towards resuming the prosecution of the defendants in the case of Wright, Heaton, and others who have been charged with…

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Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1887 · page 4

A MOTION has been for some time standing on the business paper of the Legislative Assembly in the name of Mr. Teece, expressing the opinion that the…

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Railway Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident occurred near Guyra, Armidale, on Saturday night. While the mail train was proceeding up north it ran over a fettler named Michael Purcell, who…

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Shocking Death in a Railway Tunnel

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 June 1887 · page 2

AN inquest was held at Murrurundi on Friday afternoon, before Mr. W. F. Parker, coroner, at Doughboy Hollow, on the body of a woman named Kate Coyle, who…

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Extensive Frauds on an American Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 5

THE American correspondent of the S.M. Herald writes:—The example of extortion and dishonesty on the part of railroad managers has been followed in the…

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The Windsor Railway Accident. MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 5

The evidence taken to-day at the inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor railway accident was of an important and sensational character. The witnesses called were the driver,…

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The Pishin Valley Railway. Calcutta, June 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 2

The Pishin Valley railway through the Khojak Pass will be commenced forthwith…

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The Railway Policy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 4

WE (Daily Telegraph) understand that the Government will adhere to their intention not to bring forward their railway policy until the next session of Parliament. Indeed the Government…

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Leasing the Trams

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 4

It was stated some time since that the Minister for Works was in receipt of a large number of offers to lease the tramways of Sydney. One of these comes from a number of New South Wales…

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N. S. W. Railway and Tramway Service Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 4

THE regular 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. Mitchell took the chair…

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The Windsor Railway Accident.—The Commissioner's Evidence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 2

AT the resumed inquest on the victims of the Windsor railway accident on Monday Phillips, the driver of the 5.25 ordinary down train, was recalled for the purpose of ascertaining whether…

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The Railway Frauds

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1887 · page 2

THE sittings of the Central Criminal Court were continued at Darlinghurst Court-house on Monday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Stephen. The alleged case of conspiracy in connection…

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The Morning Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 June 1887 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction is felt by the residents along the southern line at the irregularity of the goods express train which carries the Sydney morning papers. It leaves Sydney…

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Another Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 3

ON Tuesday tenders were opened at the Public Works Office for the construction of the branch, railway from Hornsby to St. Leonards, a distance of 10 miles 69…

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Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 2

MR. BURNS, answering a question put by Mr. M'Elhone in the Assembly on Thursday, stated that the system of differential or competitive rates on the Victorian railways for the purpose…

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The New Railway Bill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 4

THE second reading of the new Railway Bill was moved in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday evening by Sir Henry Parkes in a speech which was of nearly an hour and a-half's…

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