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

Railways, roads & transport, 1897

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Road Race

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 2

A road race from Braidwood to Goulburn will take place on the 24th May, and entries for the same close this evening. Several outside branches of the League will be represented…

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A Train Delayed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 4

A BULL wandered on the railway line near Flemington yesterday morning, and was run over by the paper train. A truck was derailed, and the train delayed over two hours…

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Road, Wingello-barber's Creek

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 2

The following letter has been received by Mr. McCourt M.P., from the Lands Department:—Sir,—With reference to the letter from the Secretary Progress Association,…

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Accident on the Railway. a Man Jumps From the Mail Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

OUR Gunning correspondent wired as follows on Monday morning:— "A young man named James Curtin jumped from the up mail train on Saturday night when…

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

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

DEAR SIR,—In the specifications of the road contracts just called for it states that all necessary gravel is" to be the best obtainable." In all the previous contracts a distance was specified in which…

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Railway Disaster in Russia. London, May 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

A terrible railway disaster has occurred at Rockenhaf, in Russia. A train was derailed and wrecked. One hundred soldiers were killed and 60 injured…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2

A scalding accident happened at the loco. sheds, railway station, on Monday afternoon to a fitter named David Arnold. He was engaged with others testing a boiler, and while at work at a valve…

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Road Tenders

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 3

The following are the lowest tenders opened at Crookwell on Monday:—Mummel Bridge to Norrawa, R. S. Siggs £73 1/3, eight tenders; Kialla the Pejar, M. M. Daulton, £9 5/,…

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The Coming Road Race

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 3

MR. EDITOR,—After glancing down the list of starts awarded competitors in the approaching road-lace from Braidwood to Goulburn I can form but one opinion, viz., that it is the most…

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City Railway

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 2

Mr. Ewing chairman of the public works committee, says he anticipates that the report of the committee sitting as a royal commission on the proposed city railway…

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The Coolamon-warri Railway

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 2

A deputation introduced by Mr. T. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A., waited on the Minister for Public Works on Thursday, and asked for an extension of the railway line from Coolamon…

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Braidwood-Goulburn Road Race

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1897 · page 4

A meeting of the committee of the League of Wheelman was held on Tuesday evening to complete arrangements for the road from Braidwood to Goulburn on Monday next, Mr. W…

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Railway Disaster in Prussia. London, May 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 4

A train containing 1000 German soldiers was derailed to-day near Gerolstein, in Rh[?]nish Prussia. Nine soldiers were killed on the spot, and 35 others were seriously injured…

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New Railway Rates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 5

ONE of the results of the conference between the New South Wales and Victorian Railway Commissioners at Albury appears in Tuesday's Government Gaze[?]te in the shape of the following n[?]w by-law:…

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Additional Train

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 May 1897 · page 3

AFTER let Juno the passenger train which leaves Sydney for Moss Vale at 5.15 p.m. on Fridays will be extended to Goulburn, arriving here at ten. This is continuing the…

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The Railways and the Drought

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 May 1897 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners, with a view to affording assistance to pastoralists and others during the continuance of the drought, have arranged that where the grass and water in…

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Local Railway Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 2

THE holiday traffic at the Goulburn railway station from the 18th to the 25th inclusive shows an increase on last year's returns. There was a falling off in the special excursions, but…

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Bridge, Norwood Creek

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 2

TENDERS, receivable to 21st June, are invited for the erection of a timber-beam bridge over Norwood Creek on road from Goulburn to Roslyn. A bridge at this place has long…

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The Land. Road Contracts

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 2

THE tender of R. Tumbers was the lowest opened this morning for repairs to Murulan and Taralga road, towards Forest Reserve (Bogg's Laue)…

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Northrop Lyman & Co. Proprietors 15 Bridge-st, Sydney. CATARRH. Hay Fever, Catarrhal Deafness a New Home Treatment

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 4

Sufferers are not generally aware that the cease are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and custacian tubes…

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