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

Railways, roads & transport, 1890

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Formal Opening of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 4

The following parish roads are now open for public use. Plain, &c., lodged at the Police Office at Yass in the first case and in the two latter at the Police…

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Differential Railway Rates. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 2

SIR,—I have written from time to time through our press on the above subject of railway rates, and in one of my recent letters I clearly pointed out that the people of Albury wore dissatisfied with the amount…

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Differential Railway Rates. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 4

SIR,—I have written from time to time through our press on the above subject of rail way rates, and in one of my recent letters I clearly pointed out that the people of Albury were…

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Preliminary Notification of Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 6

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 line of…

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The Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 4

WE understand that in anticipation of Parliamentary sanction being given to the construction of the proposed railway lines from Goulburn to Crookwell and Culcairn to Corowna,…

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Formal Opening of Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 4

THE following line of pariah road is now open for public use. Plan, &c, lodged at the Police Office at Queanbeyan:—Part of road from Foxlow to village of Bullongong (Captain's…

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London Railway Men. LONDON, Jan. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 4

The railway porters and other general employes have demanded a reduction in their hours to 10 hours for a day's work; the platelayers ask for nine hours a day, and the signalmen for…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 4

COWRA, Saturday.—A mixed midnight train from Harden to Blayney, when near the Holm-wood siding, a few miles from Cowra, ran off the rails, fortunately with no very serious results…

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Prospects of our Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 2

WHEN in Sydney on Tuesday last Mr. W. H. Oram of this journal interviewed Mr. Dowel, M.L.A., a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on…

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The Crookwell Railway: Strange Proceedings

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 2

WE understand from an old resident of the district that instructions have been received by the surveyors in connection with the Crookwell railway to so alter the route as to reduce the…

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The Sydney Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 4

A commission, consisting, we (S.M. Herald) learn, of 10 gentlemen representing various interests, is to be appointed by the Government to report upon the extension of the railway into the…

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Grass inside Railway Fences

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

OWING to the highly favourable season which has been experienced, the grass inside the railway fences in various parts of the colony has become very luxuriant. It is understood that…

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Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

A TRAM accident, resulting in the death of a child named William Slattery, 5 years of age, occurred on Thursday at the corner of Oxford and Pelican streets. The little fellow was seen…

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The Railway Cadets

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 4

Two of the Railway Department cadets, Messrs. H. Quodling and W. Filmer, started for England by the, R.M.S. Orient to-day (Saturday)., Mr. [?]uodling will go into the…

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Railway Traffic Returns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 8

The railway traffic returns for the holiday season, December 17 to January 1, a period of 16 days, shows that 898,000 passengers were carried on the railways of this colony, as against…

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Road from Charleyong to Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 4

THE members for Argyle have received the following communication:—"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 9th January, 1890. Gentlemen,—With reference to the…

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The Crookwell Railway. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 2

SIR,—There has been so much said and written upon the above that it perhaps begins to get "stale," and opinions vary as to the need of the line, and whether it will pay interest on cost of…

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Railway Accident in America. LONDON, Jan. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 4

A railway accident has occurred at Sydney, a settlement on the Union Pacific Railroad, in Nebraska Territory, U. S. The train caught fire, and the whole of the…

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The Crookwell Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 2

The Goulburn Horald of Saturday last Says:--Mr. H. W. Parkinson, assistant engineer, is at present engaged with a party in re-staking this line, with a view…

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The Railway Accident in America. LONDON, Jan. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 4

It is now ascertained that the official portion of the Australian mails supposed to have been burnt in the fire at Sydney, N.T., were rescued, and will be forwarded on to their destination…

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