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Railways, roads & transport, 1879

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Railway From Cootamundra to Gundagai

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 3

A DEPUTATION, consisting of the Hon. James Hoskins, the Hon. E. Baker, Mr. John Lucas, M.L.A., Mr. Copeland, M.L.A., Mr. A. D. Shepard, of Adelong, Dr. Lynch, of…

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The Cross Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 7

IT would appear from the following remarks by the Grenfell Record that there is still some scheming going on in the matter of the route for the proposed railway line to connect the…

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Agricultural Districts. No. V. Narandera Road, Cuddell, Tubbo

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 6

LEAVING North Wagga I find at Williams' place, Malabo, the finest sample of early rose potatoes I have met with on my travels. Proceeding…

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Serious Railway Accident at Parramatta. (From the Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1879 · page 1

THE first serious case of "telescoping" in connection with the railway system of the colony took place at Parramatta on Friday afternoon, and it is almost…

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Serious Railway Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 31 December 1879 · page 4

THE Parramatta railway station was, on Friday afternoon, the scene of one of the most sensational, though not the most serious, accidents that has yet…

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