Connor's Creek Bridge
Tenders were opened on Tuesday by the Tender Board, Sydney, for the creation of a timber beam bridge over Connor's Creek, main south road, Yass to Jugiong. There were six tenders, the lowest…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
319 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 16
The Excursion Train Rumours
THERE have been all sorts of rumours as to the opportunities to be afforded by the Railway Department for country residents to visit Sydney during the record reign celebrations, and the…
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AT the meeting of the Executive Council on Tuesday a new railway goods rate book was approved. The alterations made in the rates are not numerous, but advantage has boon taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed City Railway
The report of the royal commission on the proposed extension of the railway system to the city of Sydney for the conveyance of passengers and goods was laid on the table of the…
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At the meeting of the Executive Council on Tuesday a now railway goods-rate book was approved. The alterations made in the rates are not numerous, but advantage has been…
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THE Minister for Works, Mr. J. H. Young, is taking energetic steps to push on with the work of railway construction, which has been permitted to proceed somewhat languidly during the last year or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Construction in China. London, June 3
A Belgian syndicate has been formed to build a line of railway to Hankow, in China, the length of the line being 700 miles. The syndicate has also secured the sole right to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Excursion Trains
IT is understood that the Railway Commissioners have made arrangements to run a series of excursion trains from the country to Sydney a day or two before the record reign celebrations, to enable…
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We learn from Mr. Rose that fully 700 applications have been received by the Railway Commissioners in response to their advertisement for filling up come vacancies. The applications are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prosperity on the Railways
SPEAKING on Tuesday at Newcastle to a deputation from the local Chamber of Commerce, the Chief Commissioner for Railways said he and his colleagues were proposing to make alterations in their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Accident on the Railway
A FIREMAN named Hubert Powell met with a serious accident on the Cooma line on Wednesday afternoon, and he is now lying in the Goulburn Hospital in an unconseious state. It appears he…
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Mr. Rose has received the following from the under-secretary for works:—"With reference to your various communications and personal representations, in regard to the ad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Appointments
we learn from Mr. Rose that fully 700 applications have been received by the railway commissioners in response to their advertisements for filling up some vacancies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian Trans-continental Railway. London, June 10
The Hon. C. C. Kingston, Premier of South Australia, is obtaining data for the guidance of his Cabinet in regard to the construction of the transcontinental continental railway to Port Darwin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Big Railway Contracts
THE Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of Mr. O. G. Hudson for the construction of 20 good brake-vans. Theo contract amounts to about £3000. The Railway Commissioners received…
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ABOUT eleven on Saturday night Mr. James Alls, stationmaster at Hilltop, was found on the railway line near the platform, Mittagong, with both legs injured apparently from being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Railway Contracts
The railway commissioners have accepted the tender of Mr. O. G. Hudson for the construction of twenty goods vans. The contract amounts to about £3000. The railway…
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THE efforts made to extend the railway from Redfern terminus into the heart of the city of Sydney may be regarded as little short of heroic…
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IT has been rightly said that the extension of the railway system into the centre of Sydney is a work in which the whole colony is interested. This…
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Entries for Mr. W. Hannam's silver medal will be received by Mr. J. O'Mara up to 9 o'clock on Saturday evening next. Handicaps will be declared on Monday morning at 10…
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