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

Railways, roads & transport, 1890

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Washaways on the Railways

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

The following notices were posted at the Central Railway Office, George- street, on Wednesday morning, an T attracted the notice of a large crowd of persons:—…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Transit Stopped for Three Day(from the Echo Correspondents.)penrith

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 2

The town was thrown into a[?]tnte of alarm today by the report of a fearful accident near Mount Wilson station. From inquiries it appears that a goods train, No 23, which leaven Penrith at 12.50…

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Railway Accident at Bungendore

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

Own correspondent gives particulars of a railway accident which occurred at Bungendore on Saturday morning. Fortunately there was no loss of life…

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Inglewood Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 6

OUR Gunning correspondent writes:—I would like to know when a start is to be made towards repairing this bridge, which is becoming more and more dangerous every day. Last Sunday as…

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Confirmation of Parish Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

THE following road has been confirmed and it is declared expedient to open and make it according to the plans and books of reference, to be seen at the police office,…

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Narrow Escape of a Mail Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

WE understand that at the time of the heavy rains at the middle of last week the mail train to Cooma had a narrow escape from a serious accident. A person residing near the siding at…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway at Penrith

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

PENRITH, Thursday.—At 10.50 this morning a woman named Parsons, wife of a fettler at present employed on the railway at Emu Plains, was killed at Heard's Crossing. She was about…

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Preliminary Notification of a Parish Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 8

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 the road in question, are now…

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Railway Siding and Trucking Yard at Yarra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 3

FOLLOWING upon the tour of the members for Argyle, Colonel Holborrow and Mr. Ball, through this portion of the electorate, a decidedly representative assemblage gathered on…

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Easter Railway Excursions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 3

THE Railway Commissioners have arranged for the issue of holiday excursion tickets from all stations to all stations distant over 14 miles, commencing with the mail trains leaving terminal…

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Damage to Railway Lines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 3

Information reached the Railway commissioners on Thursday of a serious slip on the Northern line at Ben Domond. Traffic was blocked, end workmen were at once set to work…

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Road Grants

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 April 1890 · page 2

THE Government are arranging to have spent immediately a certain portion of the money which Parliament will be asked to vote on the Additional Estimates as an…

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Easter Railway Excursions

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 April 1890 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners have arranged for the issue of holiday excursion tickets from all stations distant over fourteen miles, commencing with the…

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Application to Purchase a Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 3

The following persons will be permitted to purchase the portion of land mentioned:—Phillip Francis Adams and Constantine Francis Bolton (in trust), I rood 18 perches, county of Argyle,…

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The Railway Institute

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 4

The Railway Institute, for which tenders were invited some weeks ago, is now satisfactorily progressing. The contractor has cleared away the old sheeting shed at the corner of Devonshire…

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Railway and Tramway Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1890 · page 5

The Sydney and suburban traffic on Monday on both the railways and the tram ways was the heaviest yet recorded. Altogether 76,733 people travelled by rail,…

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Goulburn and Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 4

A FEW weeks ago a public meeting was held in Goulburn at which the report and recommendations of the public works committee wore considered. The report, it may be…

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Goulburn-Crookwell Railway Survey

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 3

MESSRS. Teece and Waddell, Ms. L A., headed a deputation which waited upon the Minister for Works on Thursday, in order to ask that the original survey of the Goulburn to Crookwell…

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Shocking Death of a Railway Guard

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 April 1890 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A shocking accident took place at the Tooradin Railway Station this afternoon to a guard named Richard W. G. Reynolds, in charge of a milk train. Whilst…

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Goulburn-Crookwell Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 15 April 1890 · page 2

A FEW weeks ago a public meeting was held in Goulburn at which the report and recommendations of the Public Works Committee were considered. The report,…

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