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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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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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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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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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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