How to Make a Road
WE condense the following hints from a circular issued by the Roads Improvement and Maintenance Association of London, an organisation…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
396 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 20
Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 11 a.m. the Late Railway Collision at Culcairn
THE railway department has concluded its inquiry into the recent collision at Culcairn, and has reduced the drivers of the two express engines…
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IT has been arranged that the deputation appointed to present the petition in support of the Goulburn-to-Crookwell railway shall wait on the minister on Thursday next, 21st instant…
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On Saturday Mr. M'Sweeny, railway contractor, reported to the police that a daring robbery had been committed at his office in Regent-street. Between the time of leaving on…
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A young woman was found, between 12 and 1 o'clock on Saturday morning, on the railway line between Burwood and Stratfield. She was identified during the day as Agnes Louisa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Sheds
MR. FRANKLIN, the contractor, has completed the new grain-shed at the Goulburn railway station, and it has been taken over by the department. Mr. Franklin is now engaged in…
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THE petition in favour of the re-introduction to Parliament of the Goulburn to- Crookwell Railway Bill will be presented to the Minister for Works on…
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WE are informed that under a new regulation it is now imperative for the lowest tenderer to at once deposit with the local road superintendent a sum equal to 5 percent. on the amount of his tender,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Resumption of Railway Work
SOME few days ago it was announced that large numbers of men were being knocked off the various railway reballasting contracts, the Railway Commissioners being desirous of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Curtailment of the Powers of Railway Commissioners
IT is announced in the columns of the Melbourne Age that the members of the Ministry of Victoria have decided that the first measure to be submitted to Parliament shall be one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Important to Road Contractors
WE are informed that under a new regulation it is now imperative for the lowest tanderer to deposit at once with the local road superintendent a sum equal to 5 per cent. on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crookwell Railway
IT was originally intended that the deputation appointed to present the petition in favour of the Goulburn-to-Crookwell railway, should wait on the minister for public works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Employes and the Commissioners
ON ,Wednesday afternoon a deputation, of which no previous notice had been given, waited upon, the colonial treasurer (Mr. Mc Millau) to bring under his notice the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Collision at the Eveleigh Tunnel. an Engine-driver Killed
THE approaches to the Eveleigh tunnel were on Thursday evening the scene of a terrible collision, resulting in the death of an enginedriver named Robert Bertram, and in severe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Crookwell Railway
THE Crookwell railway petition is to be presented on Thursday next, 28th instant. Most of the list in Goulburn were collected by Mr. Judd, who also obtained additional signatures…
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A deputation of delegates from the conference now sitting in Sydney in connection with the New South Wales Railways and Tramways Association, waited upon the Colonial Treasurer…
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WE are informed that under a new regulation it is now imperative for the lowest tenderer to at once deposit with the local superintendent a sum equal to 5 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Tramway Accident
LAST week, Mr. Daniel Jones, foreman of the Cheltenham tramway, Victoria, met with fearful injuries from which he died. Deceased was engaged to drive a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Excursion Trains. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post )
SIR,—The arrangements for running the above are so unsatisfactory in some particulars that a few hints to our Commissioners, who seem desirous of increasing our railway revenues and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Crookwell Railway Deputation
PENDING the vote of the Assembly on Mr. Dibbs motion of censure, ministers declined to receive any deputations, and consequently the petition in favour of the…
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