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

Railways, roads & transport, 1896

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Transfer of Railway Tickets

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 2

THE question of the transfer of railway tickets has been revived by the issue of a new bylaw by the Railway Commissioners, providing that the penalty for the transfer without authority-shall be increased…

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Crookwell Railway League Meeting. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

SIR,—Being an admirer of your outspoken and progressive organ I feel regret at reading your strictures on the meeting recently held in Crookwell in the interests of the local railway. I am certain…

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Cabmen at the Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 2

PERSONS leaving the train at the Goulburn railway station have long since felt the necessity of a change in the way the local cabmen scramble for fares in front of the station, but in the absence of…

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Small Road Contracts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1896 · page 4

THE Minister for Works says that some time ago, for the purpose of making it easier for people with small means to take up road contracts, he did away with the necessity for tenderers paying any deposit…

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Railway League

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 6

A MEETING of the members of the Crookwell Railway League was held at Harvey's Hotel on Monday night last, Mr. George McDonald occupying the chair. The chairman stated…

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Breach of Railway By-laws

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 5

T. F. Firkin of King-street, Sydney, was to-day charged with selling railway tickets, he not being an authorised agent, and was fined £20 and costs…

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Sudden Death of a Woman in a Railway Carriage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1896 · page 4

MRS. EMMA BLATCHFORD, a resident of West Wyalong, died in a railway carriage near Liverpool on Saturday. The deceased was travelling to Sydney in company with her husband in order to obtain…

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Opening of the Railway to Coolgardie

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1896 · page 3

Coolgardie, Monday—A special train from Perth, containing the Governor and suite, the Premier and party, and about 200 people, from Perth, arrived at noon to-day…

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A Motor Cycle in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1896 · page 2

QUITE a commotion was created in Sydney on Wednesday afternoon by the spectacle of a motor cycle urging its career along Pitt and George streets. The motor cycle in…

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Road and Bridge Work

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 3

Tenders, receivable to 7th April, are invited for repairs to several roads and bridges in the Goulburn district. Particular will be found in advertisement in this issue…

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The Railway to Coolgardie. COOLGARDIE

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 4

A special train from Perth, containing the Governor and suite, the Premier and party, and about 200 people from Perth, arrived at noon today. The visitors came to take part in the…

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Departure of Railway Men

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 2

MR. T. SPENCE, one of the oldest railway men of Goulburn, was given a send-off at McCabe's Hotel on Thursday evening, prior to his departure for Newcastle to which place he will be attached in…

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Goulburn-taralga Road

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 March 1896 · page 4

SOME months age this road, with the exception of a few places where it was still unformed, was in good order. Recently contracts were let for blinding it with gravel,…

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A Tramway Proposal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 2

THE Minister for Works, Mr. J. H. Young, has received a proposal from a private company for the construction of a tramway from Woolwich to the Field of Mars. The idea of the company is that…

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A Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A shocking railway fatality occurred at Geelong this evening, the victim being a lad named William Bradley, aged 15 years. He was standing on the edge of the main…

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Visit of the Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners arrived in Goulburn at 9 o'clock this morning on a visit of inspection. They left Sydney on Monday morning and came as far as Marulan the same day. They made a…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Tuesday, 2.34 p.m. Rumoured Increase of Railway Freights

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 2

THE Star states that the Cabinet has under consideration a proposal to increase the present railway rates for the carriage of agricultural produce, flour, grain, bran pollard, &c., from Sydney to the…

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A Railway Hospital Fund

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 2

WHAT seems a capital co-operative concern is at present in existence amongst the railway men of the colony. It is termed the Railway and Tramway Employes' Hospital Fund, and by its means the…

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Mining Under Roads

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 2

THE following application for permission to mine under roads under the Mining Act of 1874, section 28, has been refused by the Department of Mines, viz. :—Applicant, R. J. Pearson; description of…

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Cheap Railway Excursions

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 2

A CHEAP excursion train ran from Sydney on Monday, and carried a full complement of pa[?]gers. It reached Goulburn about 11.80 p.m. when a few passengers alighted…

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