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

Railways, roads & transport, 1899

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Visit of the Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners are at present on a tour of inspection and they arrived in Goulburn from the south yesterday morning between 11 and 12 o'clock. After a brief stop of about ten minutes…

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Overhead Railway Bridge. Banquet at Eastgrove

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 April 1899 · page 3

ON Friday evening the Essigrove Progress Committee celebrated the opening of the overhead railway bridge on that afternoon by a banquet in the Church of England…

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Bicycle Road Race

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 4

THE second event of this kind for the week took place on Saturday afternoon over five miles of the Windellima road. finishing at the junction of the Bungonis and Windellima roads About twenty…

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Accident to the Paper Train

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 April 1899 · page 2

YESTERDAY as the paper train was crossing Breadalbane a carriage containing goods caught fire. All the goods and the carriage were consumed with the exception of one of two…

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Railway Arrangements. Time Table Alterations. the Harden-blayney Line Affected

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 April 1899 · page 2

ON Monday last a series of time table alterations came into force which to some extent affect the Harden-Blayney line. The new regulations are set out in a paragraph appearing in our Sydney…

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Fire on a Train

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 2

GOULBURN, Monday.—A Iouvred van on the express goods train caught fire soon after leaving for the south this morning. The van contained general goods, nearly…

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Lion-hunt at Willesden. Trapped on the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 2

AN exciting lion-hunt took place (says the London Daily Telegraph) recently in the neighborhood of Willesden. Junction. Mr. George Sanger was…

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Goulburn Railway Ambulance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 2

A general meeting of the Goulburn Railway Ambulance Corps was held on Friday evening for the purpose of making arrangements for the annual demonstration and presentation of certificates and…

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Road Contract

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 April 1899 · page 3

The bonder of Alexander Wilson Goulburn has been accepted for work on road Crookwell to Mount Waye…

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The Railway Commissioners

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 24 April 1899 · page 4

FOR all the world are like an organ-grinder—the handle is turned, music flows, the monkey performs and gathers in the pennies. Commissioner Eddy was a most…

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The Independent Tramp

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 24 April 1899 · page 3

A Victorian fanner writes: “ I never realised the independent position of the Victorian swagman thoroughly until this week. I was chaffcutting, shorthanded,…

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Road Tenders

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

TENDERS are called for in this issue for works on the following roads Contract No. 43, road; Wheeo post office towards Gunning contract No…

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Goulburn Railway Ambulance

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

MR E. MILNE, honorary instructor of the Goulburn railway ambulance corps, Is a gentleman who bas taken move than ordinary interests in the spread of ambulance work, and it was recently decided by…

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The City Railway

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1899 · page 3

At the cabinet meeting yesterday it was resolved that steps should be taken to prepare a scheme of city railway extension, and the officers of the works department will be…

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The City Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 April 1899 · page 4

THE Premier states that at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday it was resolved that steps should be taken to prepare a scheme of city railway extension. The officers of the Works Department will be…

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Railway Promotion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 April 1899 · page 2

MR. H. PARRER, foreman at the Goulburn permanent way shops, has just received promotion to the more important post of foreman at Newcastle. He will be succeeded in Goulburn by Mr. T. Lobby,…

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Road Race

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

A FIVE miles bicycle road race was decided on Friday afternoon on the Windellima road, E Mills coming in first, A. McFadz[?]an second, and G. Rogers third…

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Shocking Suicide on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A miner named John Jenkins, 65 years of age, lately residing at No. 7 Took street, Cook's Hill, committed suicide this morning by throwing himself in…

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The Siberian Railway. London, April 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

The Siberian railway has been opened as far as Irkutsk…

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The Railway Ambulance Classes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 4

IN the course of business the Railway Department has to deal with many miscellaneous supplies, and amongst the orders given recently was one for a skeleton. There…

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