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Railways, roads & transport, 1884

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Fatal Railway Accident in America. New York, July 20

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 25 July 1884 · page 2

A railway accident, involving great loss of life; occurred to-day in the State of Ohio. A passenger train left the rails and fell over an embankment into a river…

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Important Railway Traffic Alterations. (From Tuesday's Age.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1884 · page 3

THE Railway Commissioners have for some time past had under consideration the desirability of altering the wool rates which have for many years occupied an anomalous…

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Railway to Germanton

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 1 August 1884 · page 2

IF, the Acting-Minister for Works has really the interests of this colon at heart, and we have no reason to doubt that he has, he will lose no time in fulfilling…

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The Tumbarumba Railway. [By Electric Telegraph.] [From Our Correspondent.) Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1884 · page 3

This morning a deputation waited on the Minister for Public Works, to urge the desirability of the construction of a railway line from Wagga to Tumbarumba…

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Tumbarumba Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1884 · page 2

THE following is a copy of the pamphlet issued by the Tumbarumba Progress Committee:—In this circular or pamphlet it is intended…

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Differential Railway Charges

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 September 1884 · page 3

A DEPUTATION consisting of Messrs. Watson and Loughnan, M.L.A., T. Humphery, W. H. Matthews, W. Barnard, and J. Channon, representing the districts…

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The Opening of the Mudgee Railway. Mudgee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1884 · page 3

A special train with the Ministerial party, consisting of the Premier, and Messrs. Dibbs, Trickett, and a largo number of members of the Assembly, including Sir John Robertson,…

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The Road to the Altar

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 26 September 1884 · page 4

The following astounding story appears in a recent number of the German serial, Deutsche Roman Bibliothek, under the title of "The Road to the "Alter":--…

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Horrible Railway Disaster in America

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 October 1884 · page 4

FROM a San Francisco paper we take the following account of a shocking railway calamity in Colorado:—DENVER, COL., Aug. 29…

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The Railway Meeting

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 3 October 1884 · page 3

AGREEABLY toad announcement in our Inst issue, a large number of gentlemen of this district assembled on the Show Ground to hear Mr. Lync's opinion of the decision of the…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Germanton Railway. (By Electric Telegraph.) Sydney

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 14 November 1884 · page 2

A deputation consisting of Messrs, Lyne and Alexander Ross waited on the Minister with reference to the Germanton and Culcairn railway urging immediate…

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The Tumbarumba Railway. (To the Editor of the Alburn Banner.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1884 · page 2

Sir,—I fully expected some notice to be taken by our Tambarumba, friends of that public meeting held in Albury a few weeks ago, condemning the railway scheme of the…

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Railway to Young

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 December 1884 · page 3

ON Saturday last Mr. M'Sharry, of the firm of O'Rourke and M'Sharry, contractors for the Murrumburrah-Young railway extension, kindly responded to the wish expressed…

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