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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1876

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

A Railway Mystery

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 January 1876 · page 4

Considerable excitement was caused in Rugby the other morning by its being extensively circulated that a portion of a human body and…

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Railway Excursion to Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 January 1876 · page 2

With reference to the cheap excursion train from Goulburn to Sydney, announced for Tuesday next, we learn from the Goulburn papers that as the…

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Frightful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 January 1876 · page 2

AT ten o'clock on Friday morning our (Evening News) Parramatta correspondent forwarded us the following telegram:—A frightful…

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The Gunning Road

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 January 1876 · page 2

Notwithstanding that the road Gunning to Queanbeyan has for some time past been placed on the schedule of minor roads as a second class road, it…

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Subordinate Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 February 1876 · page 2

We extract from the votes for subordinate roads for 1876, the following in or contiguous to the district of Queanbeyan:—Southern Roads—Under…

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Road to be Opened

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 March 1876 · page 2

Portions of the road from Queanbeyan via Burro Creek towards Micalago, county of Murray—Passing through lands of W. Gibbs, Crown land, James…

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Exciting Scene at the Railway Station

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 March 1876 · page 3

THE Sydney Railway Station on Monday was a scene of unusual bustle and excitement. About half-past two o'clock the very long funeral cortege…

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Fearful Double Railway Collision in England

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 22 March 1876 · page 2

From the S. M. Herald's Melbourne Telegraphic correspondent we learn that papers received by the Durbam contain full particulars of the…

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Double Collision on the Great Northern Railway. Further Particulars

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 3

THE special correspondent of the Daily News writing from Huntingdon on January 22nd says:— The sun was shining brightly…

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Opening of the Railway to Bathurst

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 April 1876 · page 3

A TELEGRAM to the S. M. Herald on Tuesday says:—Great preparations were made for the celebration of the opening of…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 3

THE Progres de l' Est, a paper published in Alsace, reports that a dreadful railway accident took place on the morning of the 13th March,…

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Railway Time Table. Trains Leave Sydney—

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 September 1876 · page 1

Daily (Sunday excepted) at 10 a.m. and 5.25 p.m., and arrive at Goulburn, 184 miles, at 4.35 p.m. and 11.55 p.m. Brendalbane, 1[?] miles at 9.35 a.m. Gunulug, 160 miles at 1.20 a.m…

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