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  • ...ushrangers at daylight the following day. Sergeant Steele proceeded on his journey to Beechworth, and no pursuit being made by Mr Smith, Sergeant Steele was s
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  • ...ter them;’ and with Mr Sadlier he entered the train and proceeded on the journey to Albury. ...urne . Then, the train slowing down, Watt jumped off the footplate and the train went on to Euroa, while the repairer walked towards the Faithfull’s Creek
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  • ...arty of police who had ridden out from Euroa, while Mr Wyatt continued his journey.
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  • In those days there was no train, and the journey, which now takes four hours, then took six or seven days. It took five or s
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  • ...a stock of provisions and other necessaries, and, proceeding to Echuca by train, started off to our destination lower down the Murray. We camped the first We went on our journey for some distance. We had two buggies, our waggish friend driving with me,
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  • ...them without taking the least notice of them, and so they continued their journey. Mr Scott asked Kelly which road he intended taking Kelly replied, "Oh ...y for them, we don't care how many there are, we can fight them." The train after waiting a short time moved on; the driver, not seeing Watts anywhere,
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  • ...ion that the Kellys had procured some dynamite and intended blowing up the train out of revenge for our locking up these persons. I took no notice of the re == A risky Journey ==
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  • We sent to the railway station and ordered a special train to be ready in case the trackers were not coming up that night, and I arran ...der to start off directly the men arrived. My plans were as follows:—The train with my own men, horses, and trackers would reach Beechworth about four o'c
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  • ...n were evidently in excellent spirits at the prospect of an encounter. The train proceeded rapidly on its way. At Craigieburn it ran through a gate, which c
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  • ...ing into the cold country, and if it's disagreeable in ordinary seasons to journey south at mid-winter, how much more so must it be when as at present the cou ...n Sydney, and the way to find this out was to make the journey by the mail train. Twas splendid moonlight; so that the country was to be seen all along, fro
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  • ...ion, and a few minutes afterwards whirling along in a [[Railways|railway]] train to Echuca. We soon came on to plains, and the '''Digger's Rest''' station w ...t of rushing to their doors with the hopeless idea of seeing who is in the train. Plains, relieved by a few honeysuckles next appeared, and "'''Riddell
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  • ...ormer members of Parliament, and the heads of the public departments. Each train consisted of nine carriages, and the passengers numbered about 550. ...passed, and the gardens around [[Essendon|Essendon]] into view. The first train stopped for a few minutes at Essendon. Nobody at the time knew why. Probabl
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  • ...the west. Others commenced to look for the Big Hill at Kilmore, which the train never went near, soon after they were out of Broadmeadows. ...so gradual that few were aware that the trouble had even commenced ere the train was careering gaily down the slope on the other side. The valley of the Dry
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  • ...s stage was a fifty-mile one, and Mr. Burt provided two good horses for my journey. The one I got from Tubbo it was a real pleasure to mount and ride, for he ...From Wagga Wagga I took the coach to Goulburn, and the train to Sydney, a journey occupying 38 hours, and thus completed my second
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  • ...commissioners would have no alternative but to wait there for the evening train. ..., was at their service. From Seymour to Longwood, and thence to Euroa, the journey was of a novel not to say exciting character. The commissioners disposed th
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  • ...d some 10 miles beyond [[Violet Town|Violet Town]], the station to which a train has been running daily for a few months past. The locomotive can at this mo ...en he looks out of the window can see miles of line in advance of him. The journey is somewhat monotonous, for from Seymour (60 miles from Melbourne ) to Viol
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  • ...land a few miles the other side of Grant's station - and after a two-days' journey arrived safe at Pennington's rush. ...the tocsin from a now direction, mounted my monument, and fell in with the train; but little did I think that on the very spot upon which I had camped tons
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  • ...[[Category:1876]] [[Category:Cobur]] [[Category:Wodonga]] [[Category:train journey]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...favourite ponies through Townsend street, and I had to leave by the early train next morning. ...ory:press report]] [[Category:1876]] [[Category:Wodonga]] [[Category:train journey]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...s that over which they bad passed that day. Such a thing as taking a heavy train over such gradients as they had topped that day had never been done before, ...rom the time he could recollect, when the passenger fare was £12, and the journey took 48 hours, while the carriage of a ton of goods cost £200, and now it
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