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Page 109
... Emu Bay Railway Company . J. S. Reid promoted the new company . He was at Silverton in 1885 , editing his newspaper the Silver Age , when he saw the opening for a short railway between Silverton and the terminus of the South Australian ...
... Emu Bay Railway Company . J. S. Reid promoted the new company . He was at Silverton in 1885 , editing his newspaper the Silver Age , when he saw the opening for a short railway between Silverton and the terminus of the South Australian ...
Page 113
... Emu Bay Company quickly disproved this dis- tortion by surveying a practical route which squeezed down a branch of the Queen River to the slag dump of the Queenstown smelters . If Lyell became a field of 30,000 people and the sand bar ...
... Emu Bay Company quickly disproved this dis- tortion by surveying a practical route which squeezed down a branch of the Queen River to the slag dump of the Queenstown smelters . If Lyell became a field of 30,000 people and the sand bar ...
Page 116
... Emu Bay railway was the chief enemy . It captured most of the passenger traffic and much of Zeehan's freight , and its trucks of coke and coal often passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time ...
... Emu Bay railway was the chief enemy . It captured most of the passenger traffic and much of Zeehan's freight , and its trucks of coke and coal often passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile journey to Queenstown . For a time ...
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