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

Railways, roads & transport, 1898

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Railways in China. London, July 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 July 1898 · page 2

Mr. G. N. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, started in reply to a question in the House of Commons last night that the Government would support British railway enterprise in China…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 July 1898 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon a fireman on a railway engine; named Joseph Hall, aged 45, met his death while on duty at the Eveleigh engine sheds Hall was on an engine to which was attached some trucks,…

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The Land. Road to the Look-down

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 July 1898 · page 3

A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette issued on saturday notifies that it is proposed to resume 11½ a from the holdings of M. and J. Ryan, Inventary, as part of a road…

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Tram Fatality at Annandale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1898 · page 4

ANOTHER tram fatality was reported as having occurred on Saturday evening in the vicinity of Johnstone-street and Parramatta-road, when an excise officer (Mr. John Charles Brown) residing at…

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A Fatal Panic in a Tram

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1898 · page 4

ABOUT a quarter-past 7 o'clock on Sunday night a panic occurred amongst the passengers on a Newtown tram, owing to the bursting of a steam pipe. It appears that near Marcus Clark's…

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Cuban Insurgents Hold the Railway. London, July 4, 5.35 a.m

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1898 · page 2

The Cuban insurgent leader, General Garcia, holds the railroad between Santiago and San Luis, and is burning the bridges and removing the rails…

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The Railway Revenue

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1898 · page 4

THE remarkable change which is taking place in connection with the producing interests of the colony receives striking illustration in the returns of the railway revenue for the year just passed…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1898 · page 2

MR. SAMUEL BAYFIELD, railway guard, met with a painful accident at Marulan on Thursday last whilst coupling some trucks. His left arm was caught between the trucks and very severely…

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The Macquarie Pass Road

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 July 1898 · page 4

THE official opening of the above road by the hon. the minister for works on Monday was witnessed by a large assemblage of people from the…

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Railway Ambulance Class

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 July 1898 · page 2

AN ambulance class in connection with the Goulburn corps has recently been formed at Balmoral. There are new four classes in connection therewith, two in Goulburn,…

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Railway Stock Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 July 1898 · page 2

THE local traffic inspector informs us that there is now more stock passing into Victorian than for some time past, and compared with the same period of last year the increase is…

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The Wombeyan Caves Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1898 · page 2

MITTAGONG, Monday.—Fifty men came up to-night from the Labour Bureau to start work on the proposed new road to Wombeyan Caves…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Wentworthville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1898 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon a railway accident occurred close to Wentworthville railway station, when an apparently elderly man was literally out in half by the 1.15 p.m. train from Wentworthville. It is…

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Tram Accident.—Sad Circumstances

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1898 · page 4

SHORTLY before 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon an accident befell Mrs. Margaret Simp-on on the I Willoughby tramway, whereby she suffered extensive injuries. It appears that as the electric tram…

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Road-map

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 July 1898 · page 2

WE have received from Messrs. Gordon and Golch, Sydney, a copy of Ferrie's new pocket road map of New South Wales. The publication is in book form and contains a…

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Shocking Tram Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 July 1898 · page 2

A shocking tram accident occurred on the Willoughby electric tram line on Saturday afternoon. As a tram from Ridge-street, driven by Frank Murden, an experienced…

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Railway Ambulance Men Complimented

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1898 · page 2

THE MOSS Vale Sorutineer, in giving the particulars of a painful shunting accident to Porter D. H. McKinnon, mention a fact which we are sure will be of interest to local ambulance men and should…

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Railway and Debts Federation. an Insidious Proposal

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 July 1898 · page 4

THE revival of the proposal to take over the railway and the public debts of the colonies entering into a Federal union is one which ought not to be…

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A Train Runs Over a Kangaroo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 4

THE express which left Sydney for Melbourne on Friday night was delayed for 10 minutes between Wagga anud Albury owing to no odd accident. The locomotive ran over a kangaroo, the result being…

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Railway Send-off

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 4

MR. A. PADDLE, fitter in the Goulburn loco. department, has been transferred to Sydney, and on Tuesday evening last a number of his fellow employes assembled at the Oddfellows' Hotel to give…

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