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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1886

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 3

WE learn from Mr. D.E. Troughton C.P.S., who returned from Sydney to Cooma on Sunday night, that a serious collision between a tourist…

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Telegram The Railway Accident. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 3

A SERIOUS railway accident took place at Bowal at 1230 on Saturday afternoon between the tourist train from Sydney to Goulburn and…

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Big Jack Road. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 28th April

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4

SIR.—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th instant, on the subject of this Big Jack road from Eden to Bombala, and to inform you that…

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Queanbeyan Railway Station

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4

THE Minister for Works has invited tenders for the erection of the Queanbeyan railway station, cattle yards, goods shed, and other offices. The architect's estimate of the…

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Cooma Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4

THE contractors for No. 2 section of the Gonlburn to Cooma Railway (Bungendore to Micalago) are making highly satisfactory progress with their contract, although we…

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Science. a Portable Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 2

A patent has been token out for a railroad which can be laid down and taken up with astonishing ease and despatch. The elaborate processes usually entailed In the…

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Fatality on the Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 3

A HORRIBLE fatality occurred on the railway line at Marrickville railway station on Monday afternoon, when a married woman named Alice…

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Buckley's Crossing Bridge

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

THE following letter has been [?] to us by Mr. Harold Stephen, M.f., for publication :- Department of Public Works,…

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District Roads

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1886 · page 2

The following letters have been handed to us by Mr. I. A. Shannon for publication :- Department of Public Works,…

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Railway Embezzlements

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 3

MR. GEORGE BEBNER, the chief clerk of the Railway Department, was arrested this morning at an hotel in Lower George-street, where he had apparently been drinking. It appears…

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The Railway Frauds. [Through Greville's Telegram Co] SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 3

At the Police Court yesterday, Berner, chief clerk in the Railway Department, charged with embezzling , was remanded until next…

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Micalago Railway Station

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1886 · page 2

MESSRS. R. H. CLIFFORD and Kelly, a deputation from Micalago, were introduced to the Minister for Works on Friday morning at Parliament…

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Railway Accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

HOBART, Wednesday.—The scene of the wreck and carnage was on the Fingal line, on the Launceston side. The line at the point in question describes a…

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Inverell Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1886 · page 4

A DEPUTATION consisting of Messrs. Ferg[?]son, Hassall, Harold Stephen, Dawson, Purves, Hammond, and Moore, M's.L.A., waited on the Minister for Works on…

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Alleged Railway Frauds

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 3

The hearing of the charge against Lionel William Lee and Duncan M'Allister, which was adjourned on Thursday week at the request of Mr…

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The Railway Meeting on Monday Next

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

WE hear that the gentleman commissioned by the Government to make enquiries concerning the suitableness or otherwise of the present site for your…

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Cooma Railway Meeting

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 4 August 1886 · page 3

ON Monday night, the largest public meeting of any ever held in Cooma took place in the School of Arts. A great number of the ratepayers felt…

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Monday's Railway Meeting

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1886 · page 1

THE meeting on Monday may be desoribed as [?]ently, successful in the purpose for which it was convened, which was to obtain so far as it was…

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Cooma Railway Site

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1886 · page 1

THE Railway Meeting in the Cooma School of Arts on Monday evening last has entirely dispelled the idea that the residents of Cooma cannot be…

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Assault in a Railway Car. West Maitland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 3

A cowardly attempt to commit a crimminal assault on a young lady aged 19 a respectable resident of Mot[?] occurred on Monday last in…

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