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

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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The Baikal Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 2

While steaming across the rails laid on the ice at Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, a locomotive of a train broke the lee and fell through. Fugitives in Siberia are crowding all the…

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Dissatisfaction in the Tramway Service

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 4

The decision of the tramway authorities to prohibit smoking by the employees when in uniform is regarded by the Tramway Union as an attempt to interfere with the liberty of the…

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Postal and Railway Information. Mails Close at Crookwell—

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 4

For Goulburn, via laggan and Woodhouse lee, at 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; and by direct route at 4.45 on Tuesday, Thursday, and,…

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Tram Arrangemen[?]s own ourney

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 1

The daily mixed train will leave Cowra at 1.20 a.m., ar[?]ve Young 3.36 a.m., depart 3.46 a.m., arriving [?] Harden 4.50 a.m., connecting with southern mail. The times of mixed trains due Young at 6.21 p.m…

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Japanese Military Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 2

The Japanese, in accordance with the stipulations of the alliance with Korea, propose to build forthwith a railway from Seoul to Wiju, for military purposes…

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Postal and Railway Information. Mails Close at Crookwell—

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 4

For Goulburn, 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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A Car Club For Millionaires. the Only Club in the World Conducted on an Express Train

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 4

Probably the most exclusive club in the world is the Private Car Club of the New York New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, which has been in existence barely six months, but which…

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Destruction of Railway Line

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

The Tokio correspondent of the Times reports that two kilometres (about 1¼ mile) of the Siberian railway between Harbin and Nikolst, a town where it junction with the railway from Kharbarovak to…

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The Siberian Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 2

The Standard's correspondent states that a story is current in St. Petersburg that a dozen Japanese disguised as Tartars have been arrested at Volga Bridge on the Siberian railway…

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Railway Parcels Rates

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 4

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

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Japanese Bridge Destroyers

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 2

London, Monday Afternoon— The “Standard” states that there is a story current in St. Petersburg to the effect that a dozen Japanese, who were…

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The Northern Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 2

The construction of the railway from Seoul to Wiju has begun…

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Railway Concession

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

Japan and Korea have signed the Wiju-Seoul railway concession…

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Railway Parcels Rates

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 4

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

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Postal and railway Information. Mails Close at Crookwell—

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 4

Fo Gonlburn, via Laggan and Woodhouselee; at 4 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Fiday; and by diect oute at 4.45 on Tuesday, Thursday, and…

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Tram Arrangements own ourney

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 1

The daily mixed train will leave Cowra at 1.20 a.m., [?]ve Young 3.36 a.m., depart 3.46 a.m., arriving at Harden 4.50 a.m., connecting with southern mail. The times of mixed trains due Young at 6.2[?] p.m…

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The War. London, Monday. Manchurian Railway Blocked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

Immense snow drifts have blocked the Manchurian railway, and several bridges have collapsed…

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Railway Ganger Cut to Pieces

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

Molong, Monday.—A ganger named John M'Clusky was cut to pieces by the mail train this morning between Amaroo and Molong. His body was terribly mutilated, his head being completely…

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Latest News. [By Wire.] Cyclist Killed by Tram

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

A sad fatality has occurred at Newcastle. A young man named Henry Hollinshead, only son of Mr. Arthur Hollinshead, was riding a bicycle down Watt-street, when,…

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Reduction of Railway Hands. Slackness of the Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

CONSIGNORS of wheat are holding back their supplies in anticipation of a higher price being obtained later on; consequently the wheat traffic shows a considerable falling…

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