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

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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The Delagoa Railway. Jan. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 1

The Daily Mail states that English drivers take the trains direct from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay and return with them, instead of transferring to and from Portuguese drivers at the border station,…

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Railway Appeal Board

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 2

Nominations for the representation of the railway employee on the new appeal board were received on Monday. It is understood that 22 names were received. Ballot papers…

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United States Railways. London, Jan. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 4

Mr. Vanderbilt, by welding the Chicago railways into a union with the Pacific railway, controls the through continental line…

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The Koorawatha Grenfell Railway

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1901 · page 3

WORK on the Grenfell railway is proceeding in a vary, leisurely mariner, says the GRENFELL RECOR, and is not increasing public confidence in the system of day labour. Not only is the…

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Electric Train Experiments. London, Jan. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1901 · page 4

The Emperor William has placed the military railway from Berlin to Zossen at the disposal of a company experimenting with electric trains, and it is hoped to obtain a speed…

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Crookwell Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 2

WORK is being carried on apace in connection with our railway, and already we have a gang working on the outskirts of the town. At…

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Murder in a Train. London, Jan. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

A terrible tragedy occurred in a train on the London and South-Western line yesterday. Just as the train had loft Surbiton one of the passengers, an ex-soldier, named Hill, shot at and killed an…

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Murder in a Train. London, Jan. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 4

The ex-soldier Hill, who, it is alleged, murdered a farmer named Pearson in a train between Surbiton and Vauxhall, was brought up at the Police Court and remanded. He confessed his guilt. His real…

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The Boer War. Capture of a Boer Outpost. a Train Captured. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 4

Sixty-seven Dutch colonists at Aberdeen have joined the raiders. Three squadrons of the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles captured a Boer outpost at…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 4

A FATAL accident occurred at Croydon about 5 o'clock on Monday, a girl named Alice Maud Mary Frost (14) being run over by a train, receiving…

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Road Tenders

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

TENDERS for works upon roads in the district are called for by advertisement in another column of this issue as follows, tenders to close on Monday,…

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A Mines Train Captured

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 3

The Boers captured a train at East Balmorad, on the Delagoa Bay fine. The train contained a quantity of mining material…

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News by Carle. Murder in a Train

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 3

A terrible tragedy has occured in a train on the London and South Western line. [?] as the train had left Surbiton one of the passengers, an ex-soldier,…

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Crookwell Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

BY advertisement in another column in this issue tenders are invited for delivery of several and various quantities of broken stone of different guages…

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The Temora-Wyalong Railway

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 1

DURING the recent visit to Cootamundra of Sir William Lyne in connection with his Federal candidature for the Hume electorate, various matters of State importance…

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Increased Pay in the Railway Service

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners have recently had under consideration the question of the rates of pay to the railway and tramway employes, and, ill view of tile improvement…

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Federal Defence.—transcontinental Railway.—australian Arsenal.—teaching the Citizens to Shoot.—military Instruction in Schools

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1901 · page 2

SOME of our politicians and thinkers have criticised Mr. Barton for the want of mention in his recent speech of the important question of federal…

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Road Tenders

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 2

TENDERS for works upon roads in the district are called for by advertisement in another column of this issue as follows, tenders to close on Monday,…

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New Railway Trucks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 4

It has been represented to the Premier that the wheat traffic on the railways is so heavy that the Railway Commissioners have found it absolutely impossible to provide the trucks necessary to convey…

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