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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1888

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Visit of the Railway Commissioners to Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 November 1888 · page 4

THE Mayor, who has been interesting himself in the matter, has ascertained from the Railway Commissioners that they will arrive at Bowral this Wednesday afternoon at 1…

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Railway Time Table. Down Trains From Sydney to the Country

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 November 1888 · page 1

MAOL TRAIN leaves Sydney daily, Sundays excepted at 9 p.m.; Granville, 9.30; Campbelltown, 10.10; Picton, 11; Mittagong, daily, Mondays excepted, 12.30 a.m.; Bowral, 12.38; and Moss Vale, 12.50…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, hut eat and drink as friends. Saturday, Nov 24, 1888. Visit of the Railway Commissioners to Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 November 1888 · page 2

THE Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. E. G. M. Eddy, with bis coadjutors, Messrs. Fehon and Oliver, visited and inspected the Bowral railway premises on Wednesday…

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The Bowral free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1888. Road to the Wombeyan Caves

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 November 1888 · page 1

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Bowral, in response to a requisition, was held in the Bowral School of Arts on Monday afternoon last, to consider the…

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The Express Goods Train

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 5 December 1888 · page 1

Mr. McCourt, M.L.A., has courteously handed us the following letter for publication:—"New South Wales Government Railways, Traffic Manager's Office,…

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The Robertson Railway

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 December 1888 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners arrived at Moss. Vale by train at 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning last with the object of journeying through the country which the proposed Robertson,…

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The Sydney Tramways

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 1

IN connection with the Government proposal to lease the Sydney tramways the political atmosphere is full of scandal. Charges of attempted bribery and corruption were so…

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Breach of Railway Bylaws

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 1

AT the Goulburn police court on Monday last F. W. Harmer was summoned by the Railway Commissioners for a breach of the Railway By-laws by using a ticket on the…

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Railway Time-table for 1889

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 December 1888 · page 1

THE Railway Commissioners intend to introduce a new train service on the 1st of January, in which travellers will find that many desirable changes have been made in…

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