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Railways, roads & transport, 1890

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Rock to Urana Railway

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 21 October 1890 · page 3

In connection with the proposed railway Hue from the Rook to Urana, Mr Alexander (one of the examiners of public works, proposals) was present at Green's Gunyah on the…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Thursday, October 23, 1890. the Railway Examiners' Visit

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1890 · page 2

WHATEVER may result from the investigation of the merits of the Wagga-Tumbarumba railway by the official examiners, it will have to be admitted…

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Railway League Report, 1884

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1890 · page 4

The following information is extracted from a pamphlet published by the Railway League Committee, copies of which were handed to each member of tho Legislative…

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Wagga-Tumbarumba Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1890 · page 4

THE following reports and other documents were presented to the Official Examiners by His Worship the Mayor, at the meeting in the Town Hill, on Monday last, as the…

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The Annual Railway Employees Picnic and Sports

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 3

THE fifth annual picnic and sports of the railway employees of the Great Southern line, embracing from Goulburn to Albury, took place yesterday at Junee. The neighborhood…

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Sporting. Railway Emhloyees' (No. South) Picnic

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 October 1890 · page 2

Junges: Richie and Layton. HANDICAPPERS: J. Hughes, H. Counors, and E. C. Smith, STARTER: John Ward. COMMITTEES: Sports-Leutell, Andrews, Vallender, and Jarman; Children's…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Thursday, October 30, 1890. Country Roads and Municipalities

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1890 · page 2

IN his financial statement the Treasurer stated it to be the intention of the Government to grant an additional sum of £150,000 for expenditure on…

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The Proposed Wagga-tumbarumba Railway. Report of Humula Progress Committee

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1890 · page 4

The following report prepared by the Humula Progress Committee is respectfully to the Railway Examiners appointed to report on the proposed Wagga-Tumbarumba…

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The Wagga-Tumbarumba Railway. Inspection by the Examiners

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 2

THE official examiners, Messrs. Gilliat and Alexander, seat to report on the WaggaTumbarumba railway, left Wagga last Wednesday morning to inspect that portion of…

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The Tumbarumba Railway. (To the Editor of the Wanna Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 2

SIR,—In your report of the proceedings before the Railway Examiners, Mr. Abbott appears to have said he had "grown 312 bushels good oats and 75 bushels light oats…

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Wagga to Tumbarumba Railway

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 3

The Examiners of Public Works, Messrs. S. Alexander and Hy. Gilliat, left Wagga about 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning last for the purpose of making a trip over the…

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A Railway Carriage on Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1890 · page 2

ANOTHER of the long list of accidents resulting from the character of the fuel now being used on the railways was reported to us last night. A flower show in connection with…

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Australian Railways

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1890 · page 4

SOME entirely novel information of a more than ordinarily interesting nature is supplied to us about the land we live in in an editorial article which…

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The Sufferers of Stock the Railways

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 November 1890 · page 4

Mr. M'Millan, in answer to Mr. H. who asked a question in the Assembly Wednesday as to what had been done reference to the matter of the suffer…

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Tumberumba Railway

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 15 November 1890 · page 2

WHILST one party appears to be sleeping, another is working hard to achieve an object; whilst we in this district, as well as the people of…

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The Railways and Carriage of Wheat. the Proposed Reduced Rates

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 3

WHEN the Railway Commissioners were travelling over the route of the Calcairn-Corowarailway line last weak they were met at Walla Walla by Mr…

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Japanese Railways

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 November 1890 · page 7

In Japan the whole of the railway system connecting Tokio, Yokohama, Goto, and Osaka has been opened for traffic for a length of 278 miles. In…

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Attempt to Throw a Train Off the Line at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

A report of an attempt to throw a train off the line at Wagga is reported. It appears that Mr. Longhurst, foreman of one of the line gangs, was going to his home, near the…

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Another Supposed Attempt to Wreck a Train at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 3

What appears to have been a second attempt within nearly twenty-four hours, to wreck a train at Wagga was discovered on Wednesday evening at half-past ten o'clock…

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Railway Timbers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 6

THE old controversy about the devastation of forest lands for the supply of railway timber has been renewed, in consequence of a long report on tho subject which has been…

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