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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1868

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Fatal Railway Collision at Newtown

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 2

THE most serfous railway collision that has latele happened on our railways, occurred yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Newtown Railway Station. The passenger train,…

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The Gundaroo Roads. to the Editor of the Yass Courier. (Per favor of the Queanbeyan Age.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 March 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Some time ago, our member, L. F. De Salis, Esq., in a letter to Mr Fraser of this place, as wel as in a letter to the Queanbeyan Age, stated that he never made a comparison of the two roads, viz.,…

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Local and District News. the Bridge.—public Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 2

ON Tuesday last a public meeting was held at the Elmsall Inn, for the purpose of setting the government in motion to put the bridge in a proper state of repair…

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Correspondence the Roads.—goulburn V. Braidwood. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 2

SIR,—The question which shall be the main road connecting the southern districts with the railway seems just now to be the all-absorbing topic with the people…

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The Rival Roads. To the Editor of the Southern Argus

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 July 1868 · page 3

SIR,—After reading the different articles in your journal on the question of the rival roads, it becomes transcendantly apparent that self is the motive power that actuates…

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The Roads of the Interior

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 1

THERE can be no question but that the want of attention paid by the Government of New South Wales to the roads of its interior has been the primary cause of our colony's having…

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Opening of the Railway to Marulan

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 2

WE are indebted to the courtesy of the editor of the Goulburn Herald for the following:—The railway extension to Marulan was officially opened on Thursday by the…

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Cheap and Uniform Railway Fares

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 1

WHAT the perseverance of Rowland Hill effected a few years ago in the postal system of all civilised nations, is now proposed to be extended to the transit of persons as…

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Appalling Accident to a Mail Train

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 November 1868 · page 1

IT may be remembered that on August 25th, 1861, a frightful collision took place in the Clayton tunnel, by which twenty-three persons lost their lives, and one hundred and…

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