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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1896

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Fast Southern Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 3

The districts south of Mittagong are fast becoming popular summer resorts. Many city families have already taken up summer quarters there, and the commissioners, with…

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Train Alterations. Commencing 1st Dec

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 4

ON Friday evenings an additional fast express train will leave Sydney for Goulburn at 5.3 p.m., arriving at Picton at 6.25 p.m., Mittagong 7.25 p.m, Bowral 7.32 p.m., Burradoo 7.35 p.m., Moss Vale 7.43 p.m.,…

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Dodging the Railway

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 4

TALKING of dodges in respect to railway travelling, I am informed that cases of smull-sized adults trying to travel as children at half-fare, sometimes dressedto suit the part, are by no. means infrequent; and…

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