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

Railways, roads & transport, 1891

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The Railway Strike in Scotland. LONDON, Jan. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 6

The railway strikers stone a locomotive conveying police to Carntyne, severely injuring a policeman. Jan. 15…

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Open Air Meeting. Mr. Hoyle and the Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 2

MR. HENRY HOYLE and Mr. Sehey M.P. addressed an open air meeting at the corner of Auturn and Clifford street on Saturday evening. Mr. Enowlman…

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Railway Accident near Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 4

AN accident happened on Saturday night last at about 5 minutes past 11 o'clock to the mixed train which leaves Cooma at 3.30 and is due here at 11.15. When the train was about a mile from…

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The Braidwood Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 2

MR. RYBIE, M.L.A., has been informed in regard to the contemplated visit of the Examiners of Public Works Proposals to report on the proposed railway from Tarago to…

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An Important Railway Change

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 4

IN the course of an interview which Mr. Haynos, M.P., had with the Chief Railway Commissioner on Thursday, the member for Mudgee learnt from Mr. Eddy that…

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Railway Accident in America. LONDON, Jan. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 2

A train conveying back 70 cavalry, the heroes of the recent Indian rebellion, collided with an express train in Kansas, and both the trains wore wrecked by the force of the impact. Great loss…

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[?]An Important Railway Change. Introduction of a Parcels Post System

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 4

If the course of mi interview which Mr. Haypes, M.P., had with the Chief Railway Commissioner on Thursday, the member for Mudgee learnt from Sir. Eddy that…

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New Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 7

ON February 1 a new railway by-law will come into operation by which all goods forwarded in truck loads from any station north of Sydney to any station between Glen Innes and…

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The Scottish Railway Strike. LONDON, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 4

The Caledonian Railway Company has waived its demand for the unconditional surrender of the strikers, and has offered the men the same terms as the North British Railway Company,…

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The New Railway Goods Rates

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 2

THE new railway goods rates which come into practical operation to-day (Monday) have already been referred to in these columns, and we now propose to review briefly the…

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Important Railway Change

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 2

IN the course of an interview which Mr. Haynes, M.P., had with the Chief Railway Commissioner recently, the member for Mudgee learnt from Mr. Eddy that…

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A Royal Railway Trip

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 3

WHEN Queen Victoria wills to take a trip by rail, the event is of no small importance. In preparation for her recent trip from Carlisle to Aberdeen, a distance…

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The New Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 2

WE (S. M. Herald) have been supplied with the following:—The new railway rates, a practical extension of the differential system to all stations on all lines, which came into operation…

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Manufacture of Motors

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 2

SEVERAL of the tram motors ordered by the Railway Department from a local manufacturer having been delivered and put into full work, have been found to fully come up to…

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Electric Underground Railway

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 3

The system under which the now City and South London Railway was opened by the Prince of Wales seems destined to cause a revolution of the…

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Galong to Burrowa Railway

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 2

THE following is the report of Mr. Percy Scarr, on the Proposed railway from Galong to Burrowa, ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 19th…

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Taralga Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 2

THE county members are in receipt of the following from the Public Works Department:— "I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th instant on the subject of…

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The Fitzroy Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 3

Government is proverbially slow and wooden in its orthodox, official movements. It has its forms and methods of procedure, and if a man were drowning he could only be saved by a round…

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Motors and Locomotives. Local Su[?]grss—probable Extension of Work

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 4

IT was briefly reported in these columns a few days ago that the Railway Commissioners’ order for twelve tramway motor was being executed by a local [?] at an advantage of…

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Railway Institute

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 4

THE Railway institute at Redfern, designed for the special benefit of persons employed in connection with the railways, is to be formally opened on Saturday, the 14th March…

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