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Railways, roads & transport, 1880

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The Wallerawang Railway. [By Electric Telegraph.] Mudgee

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1880 · page 3

A meeting of the Mudgee Railway League was held last night, to devise the best means of celebrating the inception of the railway to Mudgee. It was resolved to invite Sir John Robertson to…

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The Shortest Road From Cobar to Dubbo. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 37

SIR,—The decision lately arrived at by the Executive as to opening a road from the township of Dandaloo, on the Began, to that of Timbrebongie, on the Macquarie, in order to bring the Bogan, Cobar, aud back country traffle…

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Railway Extension to Gerogery

Evening News · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 4

The extension of the railway to Gerogery, on September 1, will shorten the course at poet with Melbourne by 24 hours. A letter posted in Sydney on Monday at 6.30 p.m. will be delivered in Melbourne…

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The Great Southern Railway. Extension to Gerogery

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 24

THE extension of the great Sonthern railway from South Wagga to Gerogery, a distance of 59 miles, is to take place on the 1st proximo. A new time-table has been prepared, and will come into force on that…

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Proposed Railway Demonstration

Evening News · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 2

MUDGEE, Tuesday.—At a public meeting held, last night in the Town Hall, it was resolved to invite the Hon. Sir John Robertson to turn the first sod of the Mudgee railway, and to invite the…

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Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 7

The Great Southern Line will be opened as far as Gerogery on the 1st September, so that the distance to be travelled by coach on the overland trip to Melbourne will be reduced to a four hours' journey. At present the passenger…

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The Best and Most Direct Road From the Bogan to Dubbo. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 7

Sir,—The writer, signing " Pro Bono Publico," in your issue of the 26th instant, has assumed a nom de plume hardly consistent with the character of his letter, which savours too strongly of the Narramine private interests to…

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Railway Extension

Evening News · Wednesday 1 September 1880 · page 3

To-day the extension of the Great Southern Railway from Waggo to Gerogery, being a distance of 59 miles, was opened for the conveyance of passengers, g[?], and live stock. The first…

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The North Shore Bridge. To the Editor

Evening News · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 4

SIR,—My letter in last Thursday's paper, in re the North Shore bridge, I see has elicited a reply from Mr.Mitchell in your issue of Saturday. I must ask your permission to insert a rejoinder. There is no…

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Opening of the Wagga to Gerogery Railway. [By Electric Telegraph.] Gerogery

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 3

The opening of the line from Wagga to Gerogery took place to-day, and passed off quietly. The first train with mails and passengers arrived this morning. The distance between Wagga and Gerogery…

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Railway Through Carcoar

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

To-day, a deputation consisting of Mr. Lynch, M.L.A.., and Messrs. J. Fagan, J. O'Dodd, J. M. Pierce, and B. Stimpson (Major of Carcoar). waited on the Minuter for Public Works, asking that the…

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The Randwick Tramway

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 3

To keep faith with the guarantee that the public should be conveyed to the Randwick race meeting by the new tramway arrangements have been made by the Commissioner of Railways to have the…

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The North Shore Bridge. To the Editor

Evening News · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 7

SIR—In last night's NEWS appears a letter signed "North Shore," purporting to be from a shareholder of the North Shore Steam Ferry Company, and alluding to his own experienced as such. Now, in the…

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Re Dandaloo, Dubbo-road. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 39

SIR,—Your readers in those parts have been amused to observe the somewhat extraordinary tactics resorted to by the author of the letter which appeared in your last issue signed "Pro Bono Publico." It is more than…

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[?] Our Illustrations Proposed High Level Bridge between Sydney and the North Shore

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 2

THE necessity for connecting the two opposite sides of Sydney Harbour by means which will admit of easier and more speedy means of goods and passenger traffic, is daily becoming more obvious. Our illustration…

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The Moore Park Road. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 3

Sir,—Some two or three years ago the Municipal Council made, at considerable expense, a nicely-grassed footpath for a considerable distance along the southern side of the Moore Park Road. This was no sooner done than it was…

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Railway to Dubbo

Evening News · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 5

We learn that the extension of the Great Western Railway from Wellington to Dubbo is proceeding at a satisfactory rate. Already the rails have been put down a distance of 14 miles out from Wellington…

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Opening of the Randwick Tramway

Evening News · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 4

The public announcement, that the tramway from the intersection of Hunter-street 10 the Randwick racecourse would be opened to-day, caused a large number of persons to assembled at the starting point…

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Railway From Blayney to Murrumburrah

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 6

A deputation, composed of Mr. Lynch, M.L.A., Mr. Stimpson, mayor of Carcoar, Messrs. J. O. Dodd, J. M. Pierce and J. Fugue, waited upon the Minister for public Works yesterday morning…

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Railway Extension From Wagga to Gerogery. Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 6

Some particulars concerning the opening of the extension of the railway from Wagga to Gerogery I have already submitted by telegraph. I will now give a more detailed description of the…

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