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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport
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We have been informed that on Thursday last a deputation consisting of residents of the small towns between Mittagong and Campbelltown, headed by Mr. P, L. C. Shepherd, and introduced by Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CARLEGRAM dated London, Monday, states that two excursion trains collided at St. Mande, on the railway line from Paris to Nincennes, in France. The carriages were lighted with gas, and a number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some few weeks back Mr. W. Allerdice had what is termed an "upset," or rather his cart had, on the Bowral road, within the municipal boundary of Mittagong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a recent meeting of the Commercial Travellers Association of New South Wales, Mr. Francis Loch, moved a resolution to the effect that the Associated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE railway commissioners have made a number of important alterations to meet the increased goods traffic at the metropolitan stations. A large wool shed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received complaints of the bad state of the roads in this district. More especially in this the case in connection with the road loading from the Borruna Road to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To average it is easy enough—so many miles from station to station, so many minutes running the distance: nothing can be easier. But this gives no clue to the speed ac any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TRARALGON was to-day visited by the heaviest flood since 1881. Heavy rain foil yesterday till this morning, particularly in the Callingue Ranges, whence such a body of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE understand that a large gang of men will be engaged in the Bowral railway yard to-day and to-morrow for the purpose of moving the rails back five inches from the platform. This alteration has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended June, 1891, has just been issued, in addition to the annual report laid on the table of the Assembly on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following are the returns at the Bowral Railway Station for the months ending July 31:—Inwards: Passengers, 0; parcels, 1064; horses, 7; carriages, 3; dogs, 7;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWS has been received, of disastrous floods which have occurred in the Republic of Hayti, and of the destruction of a bridge, attended with great loss of life. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following arrangements made between the New South Wales and Victorian Railway Commissioners with regard to the running of trains, were arrived at during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following communication in reference to the proposed additional train, has been received by Messrs. McCourt and [?] Ms., L.A.:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday next a new timetable will come into force ever tho railways of the colony. Several alterations will be made on the present timetable. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A BAND of highway-men stuck up and robbed a train on the Southern Pacific Railway in the State of Texas, in America. They were pursued by the authorities, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday last, a new timetable came into force over the railways of the colony. Several alterations will be made on the present timetable. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. H. BINNEY HARDY, Government railway surveyor, has completed a survey of the proposed line from Bowral to Robertson. The survey is made from a point on the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Railway Comissioners (through, their secretary, Mr. Hugh M'Lachlan) have issued a neat guide to the express train service between Sydney and Melbourne. On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Railway Commissioners have received a report from the Chief Traffic Manager to the following effect:—At 1 p.m. on the 8th instant., as the 8 p.m. train from Sydney to…
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