Complaint by Railway Excursionists
SOME residents who took advantage of the Christmas excursions to Sydney and back have complained that they were not permitted to return by the mail train leaving…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
596 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 30
A Railway Guard's Fate. Experiments at the Inquest
PENRITH, Wednesday.—The inquest concerning corning the death of Mr. John Lenno[?], railway guard, who died yesterday from the effects of nitric held fames, was held…
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J. Lennox, guard of a goods train which left Penrith during Tuesday night last, lost his life through being suffocated by nitric acid fumes. When nearing Woodford the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Railway Traffic
The excursion traffic for the Christmas and the New Year at holiday excursion rates commenced on 24th December, 1903, and continued till 1st January, 1903. The number of passengers booked at…
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Appearances in the city and suburbs to the contrary notwithstanding, the Railway Commissioners find that the holiday passenger traffic for the fortnight closing on New Year's night shows a…
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The following is the scale of charges for the carriage of parcels on the Government railways:—STAMPED PARCELS (PREPAID) RATES…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Postal and Railway Information. Mails Close at Crookwell—
For Goulburn, via Laggan and Woodhouseles, at 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and by direct route at 4.45 on Tuesday, Thursday, and…
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The daily mixed train will leave Cowra at 1.20 a.m. ardve Young 3.30a.m. depart 3.46 a.m. arriving at Harden 1.50 a.m., connecting with southern mail. The times of mixed trains due Young at 6.21 p.m…
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THE time is approaching for the election of the railway men's representative to the Railway Appeal Board. The Railway Act provides for direct representation of the employees on…
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, after an interval of three or four months, returned last week to the carriage of newspapers question, and once more produced an agony column in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death on a Train
Melbourne, Thursday.—An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of John Anderson, who was killed on December 22, while looking out of the window of a railway car, through being struck on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Railway Accident. London, Jan. 7
A terrible railway disaster is reported from the United State. A passenger train, proceeding at the rate of 30 miles an hour, came in collision with a cattle train 14 miles to the westward of Topeka,…
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FOUR persons who were sitting on the side of a tram bound from Leichhardt to Circular Quay were injured by a collision with a runaway horse at the Haymarket about…
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GUYRA, Saturday.— Georgo Bates, who with his son William, was returning home last night on a railway tricycle, was run dowh a mile and a half from…
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A MEETING of railway employees to hear address by Mr. T. D. Richards and Mr. W. Young M.L.A. was held in the Oddfellows Assembly room last evening. In the absence…
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About 50 men employed upon the railway in and around Goulburn met in the assembly-room at the Oddfellows' Hall, Auburn-street, on Tuesday night to hear addresses delivered…
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Lloyd's insurance fee against war within a month is 55 guineas. Two hundred Japanese military engineers are distributed over various points of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Betterment Tax and the Railways
In order to cover the cost of working certain railways, which it was estimated would otherwise be run at It loss, the legislature introduced into the acts authorising their…
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WE hear a lot about our up-to-date railway arrangements in New South Wales, but we think the average traveller will agree with us that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Betterment Tax and the Railway the Tax Not Being Collected
IN order to [?] the cost of working certain railways, which it was estimated would otherwise be [?] a lose, the Legislative introduced into the Acts [?] their construction pro?]…
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