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  • ...ine (not then constructed) which branches away from the main North Eastern railway many miles to the south. [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]], [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1803]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...and many other stations in the disturbed district, and on the main line of railway from Melbourne to Sydney. At the same time, after communication with the Ch [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1805]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...ugh Wangaratta during the night, and were seen next day crossing under the railway line at a place known as the One Mile Bridge, after which they disappeared ...ly from the fact that the One Mile Creek was running bank high beneath the railway bridge, and that no one without intimate knowledge of the place could possi
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  • ...to Beechworth, had declared that the track taken under the One Mile Creek Railway Bridge near [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] could only had been ventured upon, in ...ing the railway beneath a bridge under a dangerously swollen creek, when a railway crossing quite near was available for anyone not supremely anxious to avoid
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  • ..., and about five miles from [[Greta|Greta]], which lies to the east of the railway line connecting the two first named places. The informant was a platelayer [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1808]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...iderable extra police protection to Seymour and all other townships up the railway line as far as [[Avenel|Avenel]], beyond which the stations were under Mr N [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...tt neglected to make an exception of the police officers when he urged the railway men to preserve a calm and unconcerned demeanour to everybody. His own evid ...]] Creek, which lies in full view of and only a few hundred yards from the railway line. Watt came again along the footplate to Mr Wyatt, telling him it was i
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  • ...e concerning the requisite aid and material very fully to Mr Gorman, the [[Railway Stations|stationmaster]], and informed him that the line was ‘down throug [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...ted, and between them, he and Mr Wyatt finding both the Government and the railway’s telegraph wires in a hopeless tangle, and satisfying themselves that th ...ion, Mr Wyatt told the stationmaster to say nothing to passengers or other people, but to telegraph to Melbourne that the line was down, which could be done
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  • ...l's]] Creek Station homestead, standing as it does in full sight of a main railway line and close to the old Sydney Road, less than four miles distant from a [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...d excited Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt,]] and while thus engaged they encountered four railway gangers, who were arrested and added to the squad of prisoners in the store [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...s distant not more than forty yards, and the bank was also in sight of the railway station. It so happened that a large number of residents were absent from E [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1811]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...lvers and singing songs in praise of their gang. It was well for the towns people that no mischief happened to them after Ned Kelly and Byrne had gone, for t [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1813]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...em. The way to the hut where the Kellys were expected to be lay across the railway line; and there was the usual delay in opening the railways gates at the cr [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1815]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...e assistant, and with all his faults he seems to have won regard from many people who knew him, while his wife and his old mother were overwhelmed by grief a ...were in addition the residences of the stationmaster and one or two other railway employees.
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  • ...eir conduct to the particular end in view. This was the destruction of the railway line at a point some distance on the Wangaratta side of [[Glenrowan|Glenrow ...el]]. This hotel, which stood among trees about two hundred yards from the railway platform, and facing it, was a weatherboard building, with a verandah in fr
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  • ...red scarf, and matches which he had in readiness, and, rushing away to the railway line, ran as fast as he could between the rails in the direction of the app [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...lla]] at 12.30, it had been delayed for half an hour by smashing through a railway gate and injuring the breaks—a delay which probably was the salvation of [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...trongly dissuaded by the ladies, who had pluckily kept their places in the railway carriage, with bullets whistling past them, Mr Hare made an effort to go ba [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...over for ever, he was presently stripped of his armour and carried to the railway station where a doctor attended to his wounds. [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1820]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...but all this demonstration was a mere hoax which successfully deluded the people. The train in which [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] travelled pulled up at North Melbou [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1821]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...k-out amongst them - are invisible - they have not been seen for days, the people say. Clouds envelop them and roll heavily along their steep wooded slopes. ...emarks Joe, as we swish-swash through a partially submerged paddock. "People round here have a lot of respect for him. The way he looks after his mother
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  • ...ds fairs to go on living for ever. Over the firesides, on winter evenings, people listen to the winds howling in the lofty ranges, and talk of the wild happe ...f Kingdom Come, "there's more though here yet. This country's full of people, that thinks the other fellow's only belongs to him by accident. And most o
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  • ...te of that memorable battle on June 28, 1880. In front of the hotel is the railway station. Beyond that again is the new police camp. Part of the old battle g There is a street, now, along the railway frontage to the old battle ground, where once was nothing but open country.
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  • ...t away up the line towards Wangaratta. My daughter saw them pulling up the railway line, but I did not. ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • GLENROWAN AND ITS PEOPLE AS THEY ARE TODAY ...able [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] on the way. He was galloping along the railway line.
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  • Most of the people who took prominent part in the hunting and ultimate capture of the Kelly bu This arrest dates from the opening of the Beechworth railway. The story may as well be told by Ward himself, as he related it:-
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  • ...esumed Mr Ward, "[[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was lying under guard at the railway station. He said it was Jones's whisky that had killed them-that it would k ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • ...after the encounter. They were plainly seen passing under a culvert on the railway, and the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry makes the fact of their ...estead of Mr [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Younghisband]]'s station, assured the people there that they had nothing to fear, and asked for food for themselves and
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  • ...ff more wire than an ordinary repairer would carry with him. Three or four railway men who saw them at work endeavoured to ??? fere; but in a few minutes they It is a remarkable thing that all these stirring events happened without the people in the town knowing anything that was going on.
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  • ...and, holding a light behind a red handkerchief, saved a couple of hundred people from almost certain destruction. It was a brave act, and it was cleverly pe ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • ...hin two hundred yards of one of the principal stations on the main line of railway between Melbourne and Sydney, as the last resource for the capture of four The first feeling that will arise in the minds of English people on reading this, will be one of wonder. How came it that four men should ha
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  • When the [[Echuca|Echuca]] [[Railways|railway]] was being built the New South Wales Government claimed the [[Murray River [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1802]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...or two convincing proof was given that the four men seen passing under the railway were the bushrangers. An effort was then made to follow their tracks. This [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1805]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...account of what took place is as follows:—"We had just reached the railway gates where there is a crossing to Mr. Younghusband's station, three of us [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1806]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...nger was immediately sent to me in breathless haste to come quickly to the railway station. I pretended to be very much surprised, but, of course, Aaron did n [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1808]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...mpathizers. You could tell them in a moment, they were to be seen on every railway station. It is not to be understood that all these men could communicate wi [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...lway gates]] at Glenrowan. We often found great difficulty in crossing the railway, for many of the gate keepers were in league with the friends of the Kelly [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...rails. He said, "We were at Beechworth last night, and killed several people. I expect a special train will be sent from Benalla with a number of police [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...a prison-house by the outlaws. By the evening they had captured sixty two people. Amongst those thus detained was Constable Bracken, an excellent ex constab ...He took the key from his boot, opened the front door, and ran towards the railway station. The first thing the Kellys did when they came out of the side room
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  • We sent to the railway station and ordered a special train to be ready in case the trackers were n It was decided by the railway authorities at Benalla that the engine that came from Melbourne should act
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  • ...ailway crossing, through which we intended to pass, we noticed a number of people about the hotel, and at the crossing. I said, 'Mrs Jones must be dead; she ...ng, and that the gang had forced Reardon and others to tear up part of the railway line beyond the station, for the purpose of wrecking a special train of pol
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  • "Ned Kelly and Byrne then went from the railway crossing to [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|Mrs Jones's hotel]], preceded by the maj [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...t, and I told him that Mr Stanistreet possessed a loaded revolver from the railway department, and advised them for their safety to obtain it, as, some one mi [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...d yards, leaving the outlaws and their captives ready to start back to the railway station. As soon as we were out of hearing of the outlaws, I announced to m ..., candle, and matches, to go to Benalla, intending to keep as close to the railway line as I could, in case of the special coming before I could reach there.
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  • ...em to surround the hotel and see that no one escaped, whilst I went to the railway platform to have my arm bandaged. It was bleeding fearfully; a bullet had e [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1811]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...Hare, with one or two of the police, proceeded in the pilot engine to the railway station, closely followed by the special. On arriving at the station the ho ...isoner in the hotel, courageously made his escape, and running towards the railway station, quickly spread the information that the Kellys, with about forty p
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  • ...nwilling witnesses of the terrible scene. They retained their seats in the railway carriage, and the courage which they displayed, notwithstanding that the bu ...are frightened to come out for fear the police will kill them. Amongst the people who are in there are:— James and Michael Reardon, my husband and son, Cat
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  • ...SConst John Kelly|Senior constable Kelly]], with Mr [[Dowsett|Dowsett]] (a railway guard), fired on the ruffian. The contest became one which, from its remark ...pped of his armour, and then became quite submissive, and was borne to the railway station by Sergeant Steele, Constable Dwyer, and two representatives of the
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  • ...em to advance towards where they were located, but many of the unfortunate people were so terror stricken that they ran hither and thither screaming for merc ...hizers. They were accordingly handcuffed, and taken with the others to the railway station. Young Reardon, who with his father had been confined in the hotel,
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