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Railways, roads & transport, 1869

21 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2

Wagga Bridge Company

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 6 January 1869 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company, was held yester-day at the Court House, G. Forsyth, Esq. in the chair. The following half-yearly report…

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The Bridge Company and Landholders of North Wagga Wagga. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 16 January 1869 · page 3

SIR,—The Wagga Wagga Express grows profound on the matter of private enterprise, when brought to bear on public interests, and especially as it affects the value of real…

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A Mid-marine Channel Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 28 April 1869 · page 3

In the matter of crossing the Channel more than three courses are available. The Channel may be crossed above, by means of a bridge, upon it by steamer, and beneath by a tunnel. A fourth mode proposed is…

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Brungle Bridge Meeting

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 May 1869 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement a public meeting was held in tho Court-house, Gundagai, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of assisting the movement to secure a bridge over…

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Opening of the Goulburn Railway

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 4

The demonstration which celebrated the extension of the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn came off on Thursday, the 27th ult., with great success…

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Romance of Railway Stations

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1869 · page 4

Railways and railway-stations have been very hardly entreated by our poets and romancists. Perhaps the fact that our men of letters have but n slight acquaintance with railway…

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The Railway and Mail Service. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 19 June 1869 · page 3

SIR,—As trains are running daily from Sydney to Goulburn, the last extension of the line must now be in complete working order. From Marulan to Goulburn the distance is…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1869 · page 4

A crowded public meeting was held at Yass Oil the 16th inst., with a view of adopting such measures as might be deemed advisable for accelerating the commencement of the…

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Railway Extension Meeting at Gundagai

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 2

A NUMEROUSLY attended preliminary meeting was held at the Court-house, Gundagai, on Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of effecting certain necessary arrangements for…

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Railway Extension Meeting at Gundagai

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1869 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon last. one of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings that has been seen in Gundagai for many a day assembled in the Court-house, to consider the question of…

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Railway Extension Meeting at Gundagai

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1869 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of the Railway Extension Progress Committee, for the purpose of adopting the Memorial to the Hon. the Executive Council which we subjoin, was held…

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Railway Extension Meeting at Brungle

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 2

A NUMEROUSLY attended public meeting in favor of railway extension was held at the provisional school-house, Brungle, on Thursday, E. G. Brown, Esq., M.L.A. was present, as…

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Southern Railway Extension

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 2

We subjoin the memorial of the residents of the town and district of Tumut relative to this subject:— To the Right Honorable Somerset Richard Lowry Corry…

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Railway Extension. From the S. M. Herald

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 1 September 1869 · page 3

SIR,—I am anxious to bring under the consideration of the colonists of New South Wales the great importance of railway extension into the interior, and more especially…

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Southern Railway Extension

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 2

WE subjoin the memorial of the inhabitants of Brungle relative to this subject:— TO THE HONORABLE THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES…

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Suspension Railway

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 4

" A RAILWAY without cuttings, embankments, tunnels, viaduets, or bridges, no matter how hilly the country to be traversed." Such is the definition given by ' Herapath's Jouranl' of…

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Mr. G. F. Train

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 1

We copy the following from, the San Francisco News Letter of June 5:— "George Francis Train, that incomprehensible compounded agglomeration of…

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Railway Extension to Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 1

IN the prosecution of railway works in this colony, the policy of concentration has been departed from. The Government has been attempting to drive…

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The Laws Relating to Roads

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1869 · page 4

THE 'Empire' gives a summary of the provisions of the 'Roads Act Amendment Bill' introduced by the Government from which we—extract the following:—The first few…

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Railway Ruffianism

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 4

The following account of a scandalous outrange upon a young lady appeared in ia daily contemporary, from a correspondent, who stated that: "A few days age a young lady 'of considerable personal attractions…

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