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Railways, roads & transport, 1884

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Railway Time Table. Southern Line

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1884 · page 4

ARRIVAL OF TRAINS AT WAGGA WAGGA FROM SYDNEY.—Mixed, 1.30 a.m.; Mail, 10.6 a.m.; Express, 4.40 a.m.; Mixed, 8.10 p.m. DEPARTURES FROM WAGGA WAGGA TO SYDNEY…

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Reserve From Lease for Road Purposes

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 2

The following is withdrawn from lease for road purposes:— No. 398, counties Bourke and Bland, parishes Robertson, Mimosa, Ingalba, and…

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Opening of the Company's Bridge. Proposed Demonstration

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1884 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, called by requisition to the Mayor, for the purpose of deciding upon some appropriate way of…

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The Free Bridge. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1884 · page 3

SIR,—There was a very sensible remark made by Mr. J. Manton at the meeting on Tuesday evening last, to the effect that it was not very likely that many of the…

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Opening of the Company's Bridge. Public Demonstration

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 2

YESTERDAY, in accordance with previous arrangements, the citizens of Wagga Wagga celebrated with much enthusiasm the opening of the bridge across the Murrumbidgee…

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Gundagai Railway Site

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 3

ON this vexed question Messrs. W. H. L. Bailey and W. Bibo, of Grundagai, were appointed as a deputation to interview the Minister for Works and urge a change of…

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The Gundagai Railway. (To the Editor.)

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 2

SIR.,—I have read with considerable interest that the people of Gundagai have been publicly stirring themselves up in protestation of the site chosen by the Government…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Loss of Two Lives. (Thursday's Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident occurred this evening to the passenger train from Ballarat and Geelong for Melbourne, between the Little River and the Werribee stations. The train ran…

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Railway Time Table. Southern Line

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 April 1884 · page 4

Arrivals at Wagga Wagga from Sydney and Junee Junction. Occassional Goods...... 12.45 p.m. Mixed........ 3.0 p.m…

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Serious Railway Accident. Sydney, Wednesday 9.30 p.m

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 2

A railway accident occurred this evening at the Redfern railway station. As stated the accident occurred through an incoming train running with great speed into the…

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The Recent Railway Accident at Redfern

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1884 · page 3

THE following additional particulars have been published in connection with the accident at Redfern on Friday, an outline of which appeared in our Saturday's issue:—…

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Our Railways

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 3 May 1884 · page 4

MR. DALTON, member for Orange, has given notice that he will move, in his place in the Assembly, on the 20th inst., a motion which is of considerable…

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Serious Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 May 1884 · page 4

WE have to record another painful railway accident, which took place on the line on Monday morning. While a water train was coming in the direction of Cootamundra…

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The Victorian Railway Refreshment Rooms

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 May 1884 · page 1

THE railway commissioners, says the Melbourne Argus, have taken advantage of the termination of the existing leases in connection with the whole of the railway…

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Frightful Railway Accident in Spain Sixty Lives Lost

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1884 · page 4

A horrible railway disaster took place near Ciudad Real on April 26. The scene of the accident was on the line to Portugal, the Ciudad Heal and Badajos Railway, between…

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The Tumbabumba Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1884 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee appointed to take steps for the furtherance of the proposed line of railway between Tumbarumba and Wagga was held at the Commercial…

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Railway Policy

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 July 1884 · page 6

THE opening of the rich mines in the Barrier Banges will be certain to give an extraordinary impetus to railway extension in the great Western System of the…

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Railway Accident in Russia

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1884 · page 2

A SERIOUS railway accident was caused on the Moscow railway on 26th May owing to the wilful and malicious displacement of the rails. The accident…

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The Proposed Railway From Tumbarrumba to Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1884 · page 3

LAST Friday a deputation consisting of Mr. Gormly, Mayor of Wagga, and Mr. M'Pherson, licensed surveyor, of that district, was introduced (says the Sydney Morning Herald)…

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Railway from Culcairn to Sermanton

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 18 July 1884 · page 2

A MEETING of several of the influential citizens of the town mid district was held at the Criterien-Hotel On -Tuesday last, at which Alexander Boss, Esq., occupied the chair. He…

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