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Railways, roads & transport, 1886

36 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Railway Meeting

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1886 · page 2

THIS evening a highly important meeting will be held in connection with theproposed. Eden to Bega railway. The importance of the subject should onaurw [?]…

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To the Editor of the Moauya Examiner. Beads Road

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

SIR,— The shoe must have [?] the foot of the gardener very badly else I should not have been [?] to write out my name in answer to his couple of lines…

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Railway Meeting

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

THE Hall of the School of Arts, was well filled on Wednesday night., on the occasion of the mooting to urgs the, Government to start with the works on the Eden-Bega…

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humor. Bill Nye on Railway Etiquette

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 2

MANY people have travelled all their lives, and yet do not know to behave themselves on the road. For the benefit and guidance of such, these few crisp, plain, horse-sense rules…

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Railway Meeting at Eden. (From a Correspondent.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday; 23rd inst., a public meeting took place at the Great Southern Hotel a 8 p.m., to consider, the propriety of urging the Government to proceed with the construction…

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Railway Accident

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1886 · page 3

Rumours reached town this morning that a railway accident had happened at the Zigzag. and that several persons had been killed and many more injured.as…

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A Strategic Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 2

"RUSSIA is building a strategic railway to the Austrian frontier." You know what a strategic railway is, don't you? Buys its right of ways from the farmers for an annual pass, then…

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The Tramp's Daughter. Part I.

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 1

"Whoever can that be at this time of night?" said Mrs. Layton, of Oaklands Farm, as a loud knock came at the front door, and startled the farmer from his…

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The Illawarra Railway and Wollongong Harbour

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 2

A DEPUTATION representing the Brooker’s Nose Coal Company waited upon the Minister Works, on Friday, 2nd instant, to urge that a connection should be made…

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The Tramps Dauchter.— (Concluded.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 1

"An accident!" gasped Frank; "why he aimed his gun right at me!" "It was an accident I tell you frank dear," answered Lily smoothing the hair…

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Turning the Points. a Railway Porter's Told to His Vicar

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 April 1886 · page 1

Bob Scratcherty was a parishioner of mine, and a strange specimen of a parishioner for any clergyman to own. He was a rugged, grizzly man of about…

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Science. a Portable Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 May 1886 · page 2

"A patent lias been token out for a railroad which can be laid down and taken up with astonishing ease and despatch. The elaborate processes usually entailed in the…

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Farmer. The Hunter-How to Breed, Rear, and Train it

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 2

OF the many manly sports for which English men are famed, there are none which take precedence of hunting participated in by all degrees of men it brings all classes to…

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The Kiama Railway Section

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 2

THE southern end of number four suction of the Illawarra railway terminates at Porter's Garden Beach(on-the side of the town), and the Kiama station will be in the fifth…

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The Railway Survey. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1886 · page 2

SIR,—Can you inform me what is the cause of the almost suspension of work on the Eden-Bega railway survey. There are three costly camps, full handed, and…

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Main Roads Grant. Sydney, July 12

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1886 · page 2

THE following telegram was received from Mr. Rawlinson to-day : “The Minister promises to give about £600 from main Roads Account, and place…

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Railway Accident in Tasmania. Sydney, July 23

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 2

ANOTHER fatal railway accident happened in Tasmania on Thursday. The express train from Launceston went over the Bridgewater viaduct; the end…

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Eden-bega Railway. Later

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 2

A DEPUTATION, to represent the one delay in the completion of the Eden- Bega railway survey, also to urge Government to finish it in time for…

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The Railway to Shealhaven. Special Telegraphic Intelligence. SYDNEY. Tuesday, 8 p.m

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 July 1886 · page 2

Parliament has just approved of the plans and books of reference, for the first auction of railway extension Kiama to Jervis Bay…

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Eden-Bega Railway

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

A MEETING was held at the Great Southern Hotel at Eden on Tuesday evening, Mr. B. Solomon presiding to take into consideration the serious delays…

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