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

Railways, roads & transport, 1897

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Railway Passenger Rate Book

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners have recently had under revision the passenger rate book, and the new book received the approval of the Executive on Tuesday. One of the principal changes is a…

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Queanbeyan and the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 4

QUEANBEYAN, Wednesday.—A meeting of the principal pastoralists and leading tradesmen to-day passed a resolution binding themselves to send goods to Sydney and…

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Road Contracts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

FOLLOWING are the lowest tenders received on 12th June for works upon roads in the Crookwell district :—Contrast 48, Crookwell to Gunning, Alfred Gray, £38 16s 9d (eight tenders); contract…

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Goulburn Railway Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

THERE has been quite en exodus of Goulburn residents to Sydney for the record reign celebrations, and there have been lively scenes at the railway station on the departure of the special holiday trains…

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Railway Gates Smashed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 2

THE railway gates at the Mundy-street crossing were smashed this morning by the express from Melbourne. No damage was done beyond the destruction to the gates. The train was running…

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Fatal Tram Accident at Redfern

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 4

ON Monday evening when the 7 o'clock tram from Botany reached the junction of Redfern and Regent streets several children as the tram turned the corner ran across the line. Driver Harry O'Kieffe seeing…

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The Road Race

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 June 1897 · page 2

The road race from Yass to Waroo took place on Tuesday last. Just before 2 pm. Mr J. O'Mara started the first rider, Mr. P. J. Kenny who had 10 minutes start. The next…

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A Bad Piece of Road. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 4

SIR,—Mr. Affleck, M.P., is asked through the columns of your journal if he would be good enough when the next road vote is before Parliament to cause a sum of money to be placed on the estimates…

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A Tram Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred on the tramline in Elizabeth-street on Friday night. It appears that a Globe tram outward hound was about to be stopped near the intersection of Market-street, when…

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Crookwell Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3

COOKWELL, Friday.—News from Junction Point states that if the Government will build a line of railway to Crookwell English capitalists are prepared to undertake the re-opening Of the mines at…

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A Tram Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 June 1897 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred on the tramline in Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Friday night. It appears that a Glebe tram outward benad was about to be stepped near the…

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Roads to Condition Alpurchases

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

Notice is given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the 42nd clause of the Crown Lands Act of 1889, to add to the conditional purchases and conditional leases mentioned in…

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Record Reign Tramway Earnings

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 2

No lees than £6600 was the sum earned by the Sydney and suburban tramways during the Jubilee week just closed. This is £500 more than any previous week's tramway takings. It is due of…

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Argyle Roads

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 2

THE Works Department write Mr. Rose in reference to letter presented by him from the Golspie Progress Association urging the construction of a deviation at the Bolong River…

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The Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 2

The acting premier, Mr. Brunker, states that he is in communication with Mr. Reid in England in regard to the appointment of a successor to the late Mr. Eddy as chief…

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A Bad Piece of Road. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post)

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

SIR,—Your issue of Saturday only reached the library this morning, and on looking over it I find "A Resident" at Grabben Gullen drawing my attention to a bad piece of road on the Goulburn to…

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The Railway Commissioners

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

THE Acting Premier, Mr. Brunker, states that he is in communication with Mr. Reid, in England, in regard to the appointment of a successor to the late Mr. Eddy as Chief Commissioner for Railways, but…

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Electric Tram Tenders

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 4

ON Monday tenders amounting to about £54,000 were accepted by the Department of Public Works. Included in this is the Manly sewerage…

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Mc Sharry V. the Commissioners for Railways

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 July 1897 · page 4

THE arbitration arising out of the claim of James Mc Sharry, contractor, in connection with the construction of the railway extension…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 4

COOTAMUNDRA, Saturday.—The body of a man was found this morning on the railway line near Cootamundra station, terribly mangled, all the trains during the night having passed over it. The…

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