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

Railways, roads & transport, 1890

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The Quarter's Railway and Train Receipts

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 3

A GRATIFYING increase in the railway and tram traffic receipts for the quarter ending December as compared with the like period last year, is presented by the…

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Road to the Wombeyan Caves

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

BOWRAL, Saturday.—Mr. A Mansfield, a surveyor from the Roads and Bridges Department, has arrived and started to survey a road on a tramway grade, limited to 1 in 20, from…

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Formal Opening of a Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

THE following line of parish road is now open for public use:—Road from the west boundary of Dr. D. M'Leod's (now the representatives of the late C. A. Massey's) 2,000 acres, at its…

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Progress on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 4

THE railway traffic for the quarter ended 31st December last shows an increase in the receipts amounting to £33,674, whilst the expenses have only increased by £3398. On the tramways the…

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Dispersing a Tramp. What Happened to Those Who Undertook It

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 3

I was eating dinner at a farmhouse in Indiana, when one of the children came in and announced that a highway tramp had called at the kitchen door and asked for a…

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Terrible Tramway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 6

A TERRIBLE tramway accident happened on Thursday evening shortly before half-past 6 o'clock, when James Ross Logan, a well-known and highly-respected engine…

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What a Good Road Does

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 February 1890 · page 2

A GOOD read is always to be desired, and is a source of comfort and convenience to every traveller. Good roads attract population as well as good schools and churches…

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The Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 February 1890 · page 2

A requisition asking the Mayor to convene a public meeting on an early date to consider the report of the Public Works Committee on the Goulburn-Crookwell railway is being taken…

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Branch Railway from Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 February 1890 · page 4

MOSS VALE, Saturday.—The sectional committee appointed to inspect the routes and take evidence in regard to the proposed branch railway from Moss Vale to Robertson, arrived here last…

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Dispersing a Tramp

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 February 1890 · page 4

I WAS eating dinner at a farmhouse in Indiana, when one of the children came in and announced that a highway tramp had called at the kitchen door and asked HE LIKED IT.—A parcel of young men vent out on a fishing excursion up in the woods of Maine one summer, without any guide, and the question was who…

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Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1890 · page 4

A preliminary meeting of those opposed to any deviation of the Crookwell line from the route already laid down was held at the Town Hall on Thursday afternoon. Mr. W. R. Riley…

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Stowaways in a Train

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 3

ON Thursday when the express train arrived at Albury from Sydney two little boys were found Concealed under the seat of a carriage. On being interrogated…

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Safe Regulation of Railway Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 4

AMONGST other protections for patents recently lodged at the office of the Registrar-General (Victoria) is one for a highly ingenious contrivance for the safe regulation…

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Another Fatal Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 4

About 20 minutes to 9 o'clock on Saturday morning a shocking fatal accident occurred in Paddington, when a little girl named Mabel Lloyd, between 5 and 6 years of age, was run…

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Crookwell Railway Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 2

THE public meeting to consider the report of the Public Works Committee on the proposed Goulburn to Crookwell line will be held in the Town Hall this evening at 8 o'clock…

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The Route of the Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 4

Mr. E. J. Ball, M.P., has received the following letter:—"Department of Public Works. Sydney, 13th February, 1890. Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 16th ultimo in…

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Our Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 2

MR. BALL M.P. has been in communication with the Works Department in reference to the proposed deviation of the Crookwell railway, and has received the…

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The Tramway to Yass

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 2

The Minister for Works has approved of the construction of a tramway between Yass station and the distant town of that name. The length of this tramway…

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Another Tram Horror

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 3

ANOTHER shocking tramway fatality occurred on Saturday morning. At 20 minutes to 9 o'clock the Paddington tram was proceeding along Oxford-street, there…

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Local & General News. the Yass Tramway

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 February 1890 · page 2

MR. T. COLLS, M.P, received a telegram on Friday informing him that the Minister for Works had approved of the tramway from the railway station to Yass being constructed, and that the…

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