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

Railways, roads & transport, 1895

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New Railway Time-Table

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 2

A NEW railway time-table has been issued. The Monday morning tourist train from Goulburn will arrive in Sydney ten minutes earlier than before. There are a number of smaller alterations…

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Departure of a Railway Official

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

MR. ALEX. SWEET, clerk in the railway inspector's office in Goulburn, and formerly in the district superintendent's office here, has been appointed to the out-door superintendent's office in Sydney, and…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.35 p.m. Robbery at a Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 4

A DARING robbery was perpetrated at Black Mountain, a small station on the Great Northern Railway, yesternight, when the safe and contents of the office were blown to atoms by a heavy charge of…

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Railway Changes

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

MR. ALEXANDER SWEET, clerk in the district traffic inspector's office, Goulburn, has been transferred to the out-door superintendent's office in Sydney, and left Goulburn yesterday…

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Southern Mail Train Time Table

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 4

WITH reference to the report from Albury that the New South Wales Railway Commissioners intend running the Sydney mail train two hours, later than usual, we (Sydney…

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Strike on Railway Works at Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 2

MOSS VALE, Monday.—The men working on the railway deviation contract under Mr. Ahern struck work this morning on account of a notice posted up to the effect that "should any of the men he…

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The Siberian Railway. London, Thursday

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 8

It is reported at St. Petersburg that the officials engaged in the construction of the Siberian Railway have been detected in wholesale swindling, the amount of which…

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Railway Excursion Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 2

THE Redfern Railway Station on Wednesday morning presented a scene of unusual activity, consequent on the phenomenally largo list of arrivals from country districts, most of whom were…

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Heavy Railway Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 2

THE cheap excursion trains of Friday and Tuesday last were very largely patronised. It was the heaviest traffic experienced for years. The business at the local station was exceptionally lively. For…

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Easter Railway Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 2

THE excursion train leaving Sydney yesterday at 6.10 p.m. did not arrive at Goulburn until nearly one o'clock this morning, it being over an hour late. A great many…

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Excursion Railway Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 2

THE Easter traffic on the railway promises to be very heavy. The special trains from Sydney on Friday landed about 100 passengers in Goulburn, and about 120 left by the special at 4.15 in the…

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Bokhara Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 5

Mr. O'SULLIVAN has been informed that £60, promised for the repair of the Bokhara road, near Collector, has been expended in constructing a causeway, 100 feet by 20 feet, across the Chain of…

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Queanbeyan Electorate. Coven Creek Road—rob Roy Platform—collector School-ground

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 April 1895 · page 3

Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan M.P. writes to state that he has again obtained a grant of £50 for the repair of the road from Lake Bathurst to Currawang, and he would be glad if the…

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Coven Creek Road, Rob Roy Platform, and Collector School-ground

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 4

MR. E. W. O'SULLIVAN, M.P., writes to state that he has again obtained a grant of £50 for the repairs on the road from Lake Bathurst to Currawang, and he would he glad if the residents would…

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Conference of Railway Commissioners on the Differential Rates. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 2

SIR,—In your Saturday's issue appears a telegram from Victoria respecting an intercolonial conference of Railway Commissioners which met in Melbourne to consider a mileage rate to portion of New…

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The Differential Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1895 · page 4

MR. FEHON states that, as a result of the intercolonial conference of Railway Commissioner, a conclusion relating to differential rates satisfactory to all the colonies concerned may be arrived at…

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The Southern Mail Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 2

WITH reference to the proposal which has been under consideration by the railway authorities for the alteration of the time of departure of the Southern mail train from Sydney, so that by leaving at a later…

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Parish Road Confirmed

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 April 1895 · page 4

The undermentioned road has been confirmed. Claims from compensation must be made within forty days from 26th instant:—…

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The Land. Land Resumed for a Road

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 April 1895 · page 4

AN area of 1¾ acres has been resumed from John H. K. Hume's c.p. of 40 acres, Cullarin, for a road along [?]…

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Horse on the Tram Bridge

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 April 1895 · page 2

SOME excitement was caused in town on Saturday evening last by the residents heating two or three sharp whistles of the tram engine near the tram bridge in Dutton-street. Several…

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