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

Railways, roads & transport, 1889

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Road to the Look-Over

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 4

ON the recommendation of Mr. R. E. Jonss, road superintendent, the sum of £60 has been set apart for the repair of the road to the Look-ever, Bungonia…

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Another Tramway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 2

A TERRIBDE tramway fatality happened on Wednesday night in Elizabeth-street, opposite the Supreme Court buildings, the victim being a man whose name at present is unknown. The…

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Railway Accident in England. LONDON, August 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 4

A disastrous railway occident occurred yesterday on the York, Newcastle and Berwick railway, at Sunderland, a seaport and market town in the county of Durham…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1889 · page 8

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 Office,…

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Goulburn to Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1889 · page 6

AT the sitting of the Public Works Committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Garrard moved—"That the committee proceed to consider the various works that have been referred to them by…

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Fatal Accident on the Hawthorn Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1889 · page 8

MELBOURNE Wednesday.—This morning, Mary Condick, a widow, who had recently arrived from Ballarat, in stepping out of a carriage before the train had stopped at the Burnley…

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Changes in the Railway Department

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1889 · page 8

THE Railway Commissioners have had under consideration for some time a re-arrangement of the system of management in connection with the traffic department of the railways. They have now decided to…

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Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 27 August 1889 · page 3

FOLLOWING is the departmental evidence taken on Thursday last before the public works committee in reference to the proposed railway from Goulburn to Crookwell:—…

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Goulburn-crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 August 1889 · page 4

THE Public Works Committee met on Thursday afternoon, when the following evidence was taken:— Mr. J. Barling, the Under-Secretary for…

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Reported Removal of Railway Works

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 August 1889 · page 2

THE following telegram from Wagga appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald:—"It is stated at Junce, on good authority, that the Railway Commissioners propose to transfer a large…

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Bowral Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 August 1889 · page 2

Mr. Searle, whose name has been, made familiar to Goulburn residents through the weir at the water supply, has received a letter from the acting secretary of railways notifying him…

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A Terrible Tramp

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 August 1889 · page 4

THE following letter from an ex-resident of Tasmania, dated Charters Towers, Queensland, 16th July, gives a vivid picture of the hardships endured and…

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The Foxlow Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 8

In the Assembly on Wednesday Mr. Bruce Smith, in answer to Mr. Copland for Mr. Harold Stephan, said confirmation of the road from Foxlow towards Hoskingtown (now Osborne's)…

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The Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 4

AT the meeting of the public works committee on Wednesday, a letter bearing upon the economical construction of railways was read from Mr. Hamand C.E., who pointed out the advantages to be gained…

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Goulburn to Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 8

AT the meeting of the Public Works Committee on Wednesday Mr. Henry Deme, acting Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, gave further evidence in relation to the proposed railway…

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Goulburn to Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 3

AN advertisement appears elsewhere notifying that a sectional committee of the Public Works Committee has been appointed to visit and inspect the route of the proposed railway from…

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Goulburn to Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 3

At the meeting of the Public Works committee on Thursday Mr. Lee proposed and Mr. Hurley seconded,—"That a sectional committee be appointed to…

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Tarago-Braidwood Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 September 1889 · page 4

A DEPUTATION on the subject of the Tarago-Braidwood railway was introduced to the Minister for Works on Saturday, and brought under his notice a large amount of information with…

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Bungendore and Captain's Flat Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 September 1889 · page 4

Mr. Bruce Smith, in reply to Mr. O'Sullivan in the Assembly on Tuesday, said that Mr. Bundock, road inspector, received notice of a report on the defective state of the roads between…

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The Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 5 September 1889 · page 3

THE public works committee on Tuesday took further evidence in regard to the proposed railway from Goulburn to Crookwell: G. B. Murdoch C.E. stated that he considered a…

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