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

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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Railway Communication Cut

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 4

Bandits have out the railway to Hai-cheng, 10 miles cast of Niuchwang…

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The War. Port Arthur Explosions Explained. London, Thursday. Reopening the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 4

An impression prevails that the reopening of the railway to Port Arthur is due to a three days' gale delaying General Oku's complete disembarkation of his troops and…

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A Tramp's Freak. London, May 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

A sensation was caused at Newmarket yesterday by an incident in which the King was a passive participator. While his Majesty was proceeding along the avenue an elderly man, apparently a…

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Railway to the Port

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

The report of Admiral Alexcieff that the railway to Port Arthur has been reopened since Monday is officially contradicted at Tokio…

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Railway Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 May 1904 · page 2

INFORMATION reached the railway department on Friday morning of a shocking discovery made by a fettler on the previous evening. He was walking along the railway line to his…

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Transferred Railway Tickets

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 May 1904 · page 3

A SHORT time back a man named Edgar Kauter was fined at Maitland upon a charge preferred against him by the railway commissioners of using at ticket which had been…

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Visit of the Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners will on Monday next visit Goulburn for the purpose of carrying out their annual inspection of the lines, and upon arrival a deputation. from…

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Railway Fares and Freights

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

A DEPUTATION representing the Country Storekeepers. Association waited on the railway commissioners yesterday, and placed before them the disabilities under which they labour…

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Central Railway Station

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

Amongst the matters considered by the cabinet on Tuesday was the question of expediting the work in connection with the central railway station. The treasurer, Mr…

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Visit of the Railway Commissioners

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners will visit Goulburn on Monday to carry out their annual inspection. A deputation from the Progress Committee will wait upon them for the…

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Advertising on Tram Tickets

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners recently invited tenders for the sole right to advertise on the back of the tram tickets sold by conductors. Seeing…

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Postal and Railway Information. Mails Close at Crookwell—

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 1

For Goulbun, via Laggan and Woodhouselee, at 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and by direct route at 4.45 on Tuesday, Thursday, and…

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Railway Pracels Rates

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 1

The following is the scale of charges for the carriage of parcels on the Government railways::—STAMPED PARCELS (PREPAID) RATES…

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Train Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 4

Owing to a subsidence through rain a train. northward of Mukden was derailed. Thirty were killed or injured…

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Capture of a Commissariat Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 4

The Japanese near Kai-chau captured a commissariat train, but restored the carts and animals to the native drivers…

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Cutting the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 6

Lieutenant-General Oku, who is in command of the Japanese forces in the Liaotung, reports that the railway was cut in five places north of Port Arthur, between the 5th…

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Guarding the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

Russia is terribly uneasy for the safety of her railway through Manchuria, though there are 25,000 soldiers guarding 1400 miles of it. Russian military critics declare that the indifference of China…

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Russo-japanese War. Japanese Disasters. Battleship and Cruiser Sunk. 711 Lives Lost. Assault on Port Arthur Imminent. Russia Fears for Her Railway. London, May 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

The Japanese fleet has met with disaster, two of its vessels—the Hatsuse, battleship, 15,000 tons, and the Yoshino, second-class cruiser, 4180 tons— being lost. Rear-admiral Dewa has reported to…

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The Late Railway Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

The committee recently appointed in connection with the fund collected for Mrs. O'Reilly, whose son died from the results of an accident at the crossing on the Crookwell…

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Railway Fares and Freights

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 4

A deputation representing the country Storekeepers' Association waited on the Railway way Commissioners on Thursday, and placed before them the disabilities under which they…

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