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

Railways, roads & transport, 1897

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Improved Train Service to Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 6

Mr. Mathieson, Railway Commissioner for Victoria, arrived by express train from Melbourne at midday on Thursday, having come to Sydney to confer with the Commissioners for this colony in…

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Railway Employes in Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 6

ALBURY, Thursday.—An oversight in connection with the local railway has been attended with serious consequences to five of the employes concerned, all of whom are well-known on the southern…

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Political & Governmental. Roads

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1897 · page 2

In reference to repairs to the road from Run of Water to Parkesbourne, the works department inform Mr. Rose that work to the extent of the unexpended balance of the vote will be…

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Road Contracts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 4

TENDERS for three road contracts were opened at the Goulburn Roads Office on Monday, and the following are the lowest and second lowest tenders:—Bronti towards Bungonia—T. Mucauley, £33 11s…

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Railway Employes Reinstated

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 2

IT will be remembered that a short time ago five railway employes in the southern section were dismissed because of some serious irregularity in the working of the tablet system. The men…

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Road Contracts. (To the Editor of the Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

DEAR SIR,—Kindly permit me space in your valuable journal for this: We read from time to time of the successful road tenderers in the district of Goulburn. Some time…

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Railway Ambulance

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 April 1897 · page 2

ON Friday evening concert will ho given in the Town-hall, at which the certificates and module won by the local railway ambulance classes will be presented…

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Railway Construction in Russia. London, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 2

Russia is borrowing £9,000,000 for the purpose of railway construction within the Empire…

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Fire at the Railway Goods Shed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 2

A FIRE was discovered last night in the office of the goods shed, Goulburn Railway Station. The discovery was made by Mr. James Cahill, shunter, at about half-past 11 o'clock. A number of railway…

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Fire at the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 3

AT 11.30p.m. on Monday James Cahill, shunter on the railway at Goulburn, discovered the office at the goods-shed to be on fire. A number of employees quickly applied…

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Expenditure on Country Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, which consisted of members of Parliament, waited upon the Minister for Works on Monday to urge the desirableness of the expenditure that was to be made on country roads being…

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Delay of the Mail Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 4

ON Monday night the up mail train ran over a young steer this side of Yass, and the accident occasioned considerable delay to the train. The engine and a horse-box got over the obstacle all right, bat…

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Political & Governmental. Expenditure on Country Roads

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 2

A DEPUTATION which consisted of members of Parliament, waited upon the Minister for Works on Monday to urge the desirableness of the expenditure that was to be made on…

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Goulburn Railway Ambulance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

THE third annual meeting of the Goulburn Railway Ambulance Corps was held in the Town Hall on Friday evening. It did not by any means partake of the usual dry business character of annual…

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Railway Ambulance Corps

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 April 1897 · page 2

THE third annual meeting, with presentation of certificates end medals to members who had passed the examinations conducted by Dr. Woodward, medical officer of the railway…

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Serious Assault in a Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1897 · page 2

HARDEN, Tuesday.—A man was taken from one of the second-class carriages of the excursion train to-night covered with blood, caused, it is said, by a man striking him with a battle. Sergeant M'Intosh…

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Intercolonial Railway Time-table and the Mails

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1897 · page 4

THE approach of the time for the introduction of the new intercolonial railway time-table, which will come into force on the first of next month, has led the postal authorities to remodel some of the…

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The City Railway

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 April 1897 · page 2

AT the sitting of the Railway Commission yesterday Mr. William Cowper was examined. He gave to the commission details of a scheme which he had prepared for the continuation…

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The Cape Railways. London, April 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 4

Sir James Sivewright, K.C.M.G., Commissioner of Public Works in the Government of Cape Colony, states that, even if the colony loses the Transvaal trade, the railways will still pay 6 per cent…

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Train Changes and the Postal Service

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1897 · page 4

THE Melbourne express, which at present leaves Redfern at 5 15 p.m. and arrives in Goulburn at 10 o'clock, will after May 1 leave at 7.15 (or two hours later), but will be accelerated and reach Goulburn…

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