The Railway Statistics
The railway statistics just published shows that the following revenue was received on the Cooma line :— Bungendore : Coaching and tickets, £2019 2s 8d; goods and live…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1898
68 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4
Road Repairs
THE member for the district is in receipt of a communication from the Under Secretary and Commissioner for oads informing him that stops are now being taken for…
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One evening last winter I was wilting at Derby Station for the 8.30 train for London. There were very few people about, and on turning I particularly noticed a young girl holding…
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The railway authorities seem a little sore about a paragraph which appeared in our columns a while ago touching a case of potty pilforing which had bean detected at…
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A train of 1830 was certainly a strange conveyance, and though it got over the ground quickly in comparison to stage-coach, did so with a minimum of comfort to the passengers…
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The San Francisco " Argonaut" publishes extracts from an amateur " tramp's " narrative of a trip he made recently for purposes of investigation. Starting from San Diego, he…
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The following are the particulars of the road tenders that closed on Monday 10th October:—Road Goulburn to Cooma, contract 6, lowest tender S. Little, £57, 11…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →He Was a Railway Porter
A thin man, with a distressing cough, was inspecting some portmanteaus and trunk in front of a West End shop the other day, when the proprietor of the…
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A number of men are now employed on road works in the vicinity. A start has been made to re-form and metal the Braidwood road from McNeil[?]s, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 8.30 Train
One evening last winter I was waiting at Derby Station for the 8.30 train for London. There were very few people about, and on turning I particularly noticed a young girl holding…
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ABOUT half-past five on Wednesday afternoon a young man, employed by Beale and Co., and supposed to be named Jackson, was in the act of boarding a Leichhardt…
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A train of 1830 was certainly a strange conveyance, and though it got over the ground quickly in comparison to the stage-coach, did so with a minimum of comfort to the passengers…
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DURING the recent intercolonial conference of railway communication it was decided that if a traveller found he did not wish to use the return half…
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'The San Francisco "Argonaut" publishes extracts from amateur " tramp's "narrative of a trip he made recently for purposes of investigation. Starting from San Diego, be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Repairs. Sydney, 10th November, 1898
SIR,--Re the letter of the 14th ultim[?] presented by yo[?] from Mr. M. J. Commins. Micalag[?], asking that the met[?]lling on the Goulburn-Cooma Road, between…
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Professor Tripler, of America, has found out how to liquify the air, and the British Association has been told by its president that this is the most wonderful feat of this…
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WITH reference to the petition presented by Mr. O'Sullivan to the Public Works Department, on behalf of Mr. William McIntosh and other residents of Majura,…
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WITH reference to the letter presented by Mr. O'Sullivan to the Public Works Department, from Mr. John M.Innes of Cohen, dated the 20th ultimo, urging the…
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AT the Cooma Police Court on Monday a Chinaman named Tommy Ling Cheean was charged with travelling from Queanbeyan to Cooma by rail with a railway ticket from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Giraffe in a Railway Truck
Responsible for the transit of a giraffe from Liverpool to London, a railway man managed to get it upstanding in a truck ; but the stupid thing declined to…
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