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

Railways, roads & transport, 1894

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The Revenue. Shrinkage in the Railway Revenue. Sydney, Friday, 6.20 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 February 1894 · page 5

THE Treasurer states that the revenue is coming in as well as can be expected. There is the usual shrinkage in the railway returns and in the customs consequent upon…

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The Railways and the Zone System

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1894 · page 2

For some time past there has been a more or less spasmodic agitation on the part of the public concerning the fares and freights charged on the…

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The Railway Department. Discharge of Hands. Sydney, Wednesday 7.5 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1894 · page 3

THE Railway Department have recently discharged a number of hands from the interlocking works. All men over sixty are to be dismissed. The cause assigned is that no…

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A Railway Employe Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 3

About a quarter to 10 o'clock on Wednesday night the body of a man named William Hard, an examiner of railway waggons, was found in a dreadfully mangled condition on the main…

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Currabungla Road, Taralga

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 2

MR. ROSE, M.P., has received the following letter from the Department of Lands, Sydney:—In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, I have the honour to inform you that if the…

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Alleged Fraud on the Railway Commissioners. Some Hard Swearing

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 March 1894 · page 3

AT Redfern Police Court on Tuesday a cab proprietor named John Middleton was committed for trial, charged with obtaining from the Railway Commissioners ten pounds by…

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Killed on the Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 March 1894 · page 2

Junee, Friday.—Mr. Thomas Field, one of the best-known railway guards, was killed on the line this morning, within 60 yards of the station. The occurrence was not witnessed by anyone, but it is…

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Bridge at Ballalaba

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1894 · page 2

THE bridge over the Shoalhaven River at Ballalaba is now completed, and consists of three ninety-feet truss spans, piers of concrete, and two thirty-feet approach spans…

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Telegrams. the Bridge-street Affray. a Third Arrest. Sydney, Monday, 3.15 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1894 · page 3

A YOUNG man named Morrison has been arrested on suspicion of being the third man wanted in connection with the Bridge-street burglary. He was to-day remanded until…

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Railway Inspection. the Cooma Line

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1894 · page 3

THE Queanbeyan Age reports that Mr. Crawford, superintendent of railway for the Southern district, and Mr. Shellshear, divisional engineer, paid a visit of inspection to…

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PROUDFOOT V. Railway Commissioners. a Million of Money Claimed. Sydney, Monday, 7.15 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1894 · page 3

THE case of Proudfoot v. Railway Commissioners, in which a claim for a million of money is involved, was before the Judge in Equity to-day…

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Tramps in the Braidwood District. the Number Increasing

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 March 1894 · page 2

SAYS the Braidwood Dispatch, of Saturday last:—The number of men on tramp in this district seems to be every day increasing, and the loiterers in the streets are becoming a…

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The Yass Tramway

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 March 1894 · page 2

THE business at the Yass Tram Station continues to increase, and the public are beginning to send all goods from Yass, instead of from the Junction. The traffic has increased…

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Removals of Railway Men

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 March 1894 · page 2

Bathurst, Monday.—Despite the assurances of the Railway Commissioners to the contrary, the removals of railway men from Bathurst, are steadily proceeding. The last attraction if carried out, will…

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Argyle Wants. a Road for Towrang

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 3

MR. ROSE, M.P., has received the following;— With reference to your letter of the 17th December last, applying for a read in the parish of Towrang, country of Argyle, I am…

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The District Superintendent of Railways. Appointed to a New Line

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 3

THE Railway Commissioners have selected Mr. Alexander Crawford, District Superintendent, Traffic Department, Goulburn, to take charge of the new line of railway between…

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To-day's Assembly. the Railway Estimates. Sydney, Wednesday, 7.30 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 3

TO-DAY'S proceedings in the Assembly have been so far unimportant. The House is in committee considering the Railway Estimates…

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Fossicking on the Goldfields. Railway Passes Granted

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 4

THE number of applicants to the Chief Inspector of Mines (Mr. Slee) for authority to obtain passes on the railways to enable them to proceed to the…

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A Railway Guard Killed. JUNEE

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 4

Thomas Field, a guard on the railway, was killed while shunting at the station this morning. He was about to proceed with the water train to Wagga, and was discovered in a dying condition,…

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Quirk's Train Tablet Exchanger

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 March 1894 · page 2

AN illustration, showing an ingenious and inexpensive arrangement for automatically picking up and delivering train tablets by locomotive engines when running at high speed through stations, has…

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