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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1869

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Through Railway to Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 3 July 1869 · page 2

AN agitation for the extension of the railway from Goulburn towards this place is now being actively carried on, and the people of Yass and other places have invited the…

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Report of Railway Extension Committee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 4

The committee on railway extension presented their final report to Parliament last night. It reviews what has been accomplished in other countries, particularly those…

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Yass Railway Progress Committee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 2

A meeting of the above committee was held at Yass on Monday. The following memorial, which tod take from the Courier, was passed:— “To the Honourable John Sutherland, M.P.,…

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The Yass Railway Movement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 2

OUR last issue contained a copy of the petition which is now being signed in the Yass district, for the purpose of urging the extension of the Great Southern Railway from…

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Railway Extension

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 August 1869 · page 2

YASS, Gundagai, and Wagga Wagga have recently spoken out on the railway question. Yass is pretty sure to get the southern line extended thereto from Goulburn, and we hear…

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London and Its Railways. (From Perry and Co.’s Illustrated Price Current.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 2

AN Englishman’s house is no longer his castle; at least, not in London. For a number of years, London has been invaded by an army of excavators and bricklayers,…

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The Victorian Railway Report. (From the Empire.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 1

THE select committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the subject of railway extension in Victoria have issued their eighth report, which presents facts and…

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Wire Tramways. {From the Daily News.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 23 October 1869 · page 1

“A RAILWAY without cuttings, embankments, tunnels, viaducts, or bridges, no matter how hilly the country to be traversed”—such is the definition given by…

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Deniliquin Bridge

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 2

A public meeting was held on Thursday night in the Royal Hotel Assembly Room, to consider the best steps to be taken to assist the Municipal Council to obtain the control of Deniliquin Bridge…

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Proposed Laws Relating to Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 4

We (Empire) place before our readers the substance of “A Bill to Amend the Laws relating to Roads.” On the Face of it, it is not a very attractive subject; but it is worthy…

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Railway Extension. (From the Riverine Advertiser.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 4

THE debates in the Sydney Parliament are generally of so little interest to the people of the southern districts of the colony, that we seldom allude to the sayings and doings of New South…

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Horse Railways. (From the Riverine Advertiser.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 November 1869 · page 4

WE are bound to have a road made of some kind between Moama and Deniliquin, as at the present time the people of the district between the Murray and Murrumbidgee via…

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Railway Survey Over the Wodonga Flats

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 November 1869 · page 2

The following memorial is now being signed at Belvoir :— TO THE HONORABLE THE MINISTER FOR RAILWAYS, MELBOURNE…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 4

The Castlemaine Daily News reports the following shocking railway accident, which occurred on Sunday last, at Woodend, by which W. Taggart, one of the clerks at the Castlemaine Railway…

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Local Roads, & c. [To the Editor of the “Albury Banner.”]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 3

SIR,—Will you allow me a corner in your paper for the purpose of giving “honor to him to whom [?] is due,” Having last year been placed in a position to try Mr…

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