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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1899

114 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

The City Railway

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 2

A sc[?]eme in connection with the city railway has been decided on by the Government who will submit it to Parliament next session. The scheme is to a large extent based on the…

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Road to Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 2

THE Minister has decided that no action be taken by the department in connection with the road from the Queanbeyan-Ginindorra road to the Queanbeyan railway station till…

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Bridge Building Extraordinary

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

A remarkable engineering feat was accomplished recently. The Pennsylvania Railway Company removed the old bridge over the Schuylkill River, and simultaneously…

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Repairing Yass Road

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 2

The work of repairing the Yass Road, from Buttle's Creek to the Molonglo Bridge, has been taken in hand by the Queanbeyan Borough Council. Applications were called…

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Micalago -- Naas Creek Road

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 2

WITH reference to the letter presented by the member for the district from Mr. J. Cotter, Micalago, to the Under Secretary and Commissioner for Roads, urging that…

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Roads and Votes

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 2

Mr E. W. O'Sullivan has obtained the following grants from the prospecting vote:— H. W. Summers, of Spring Vale, 60 feet at 61. per foot ; W. T. Gardiner, Belconan, 50…

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A Micalago Road

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 2

In answer to a letter of 22nd ultimo, presented by Mr O'Sullivan from Mr J Cotter, Michelago, urging that 15 chains additional work to that for which tenders…

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Run Over by a Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 3

SHORTY before 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, C. A[?]stey, night-officer at the Honeysuckle Point Railway Station, Newcastle, found the mutilated body…

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Two Chicago Tramps

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 1

Eight or ten of them, men and women, were having a picnic out in Douglas Park the other day. The women were just "laying the things" and preparing for supper…

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The Railway Bogey

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 2

Of all the extraordinary statements made by antifederalists, none are more wonderful than those to which they give voice regarding the railways. They tell us plainly, that under the proposed…

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Mr. Cotton's Meeting. No Manhood Suffrage Provided For. No "White" Australia. Legislation for a "Black" Australia. the Real Aim of Federation: £20,000,000 for Railway & Harbour Works for Mining Syndicates, the Wirepullers of the Bill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 2

LAST night Mr. Frank Cotton, member for Camperdown, fulfilled his engagement to speak at the Protestant Hall against the Federal Constitution Enabling Bill. Just…

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Guinevere's Tramp

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 4

GUINEVERE DALTON was the prettiest girl in all Morgan and Hamilton's big drapery establishment. So…

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The Naas Road

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 2

The Under-Secretary for Public Works writes to Mr E. W. O'Snllivan:—"With regard to a letter of the 16th ultimo, presented by you, from Mr J. M. Oldfield,…

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Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 3

AT about'5 o'clock, on Thursday evening a boy named William Pike, 9 years of age, was run over by a train at the Hannell-street level…

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Railway Breakdown

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 June 1899 · page 2

The train that left Queanbeyan for Cooma at 6.15 a.m on Friday met with an accident before it reached its destination. It left Bredbo station all right, but before the train…

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The Bridge Delay

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

Mr O'Sullivan has received the following letter from the Works Department :—Sir,—referring to your personal interview with me yesterday, re the delay in the erection…

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The Train Service

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

The Cooma, Bomb[?]a, E[?]len, and southern districts generally desire that the train on the Cooma b[?]anch line should reach Cooma two hours earlier than it now does. They…

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The Bridge

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 2

There was considerable consternation on Tuesday morning among the residents of the old portion of the town, across the river, when they saw that the river was high…

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Terrible Railway Tragedy

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 3

About half past 1 on Saturday morning the body of a woman was found lying on the North Sydney railway line, a short distance out of the Edward's Road Station. The…

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Accident at Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 3

WE regret to hear of a painful accident which befel Mrs. John McInnes of Kowen on Wednesday morning. Her daughter, Mrs. Synott, was returning to her husband…

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