Uncovering the history of Leura as recorded in local newspapers
Below is a chronological list of articles tagged Railway.
Railway Schedule.
Article. Saturday 25 May 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Sydney to Katoomba train timetable.
Telegrams.
Article. Saturday 22 June 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
\'Advertorial\' about growing interest in the shale deposit and the proposed racecourse.
The Gem of the Blue Mountains!.
Advertising. Saturday 7 September 1889, Katoomba Times, p3.
Reprinted 2 times.
Eyre reports an imminent rail platform, competing investment companies, the racecourse, and the clearing of Tusculum (now Tennyson) Avenues.
The Railway Commissioners have agreed to put a platform and siding at Leura.
Jottings. Saturday 5 October 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
A platform and siding will be built at Leura, with Eyre (presumably) paying half the cost.
Platform and Siding at Leura. Jottings. Saturday 26 October 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
The Railway Platform and Siding at Leura.
Jottings. Saturday 26 October 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Less-than impartial report that Eyre paid half the cost of building a platform and siding.
Leura, Katoomba East.
Advertising. Saturday 26 October 1889, Katoomba Times, p3.
Reprinted 5 times.
Land sale ad, railway platform granted and paid for.
The Leura Platform and Siding.
Jottings. Saturday 9 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
The new platform expected to be completed 20th December and celebrated with a grand picnic.
Upon enquiries made to the Engineer for Existing Railways.
Jottings. Saturday 23 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Mr. Watson, engineer from Bathurst, has been instructed to build the platform due around Christmas.
The Leura platform and siding was paid for.
Jottings. Saturday 23 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Report that Mr. Eyre has paid for the new platform.
Good News for Leura.
Advertising. Saturday 30 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p3.
Reprinted 4 times.
Extensive sales pitch based around the confirmed Leura Platform and Siding, and a Grand Picnic to celebrate its completion.
Leura platform and siding will be finished by the 24th December.
Jottings. Saturday 30 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Reports the platform will be complete by 24th December.
Leura Platform and Siding.
Advertising. Saturday 30 November 1889, Katoomba Times, p3.
Reprint of a letter to Eyre from the somewhat harassed engineer in charge of building the new platform.
Ten men are at work at the Leura Estate.
Jottings. Saturday 7 December 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
Ten men are working on the new platform and siding.
The following little incident.
Jottings. Saturday 7 December 1889, Katoomba Times, p2.
An amusing encounter between Mr. Eyre and the workmen building his Leura Platform.
Good News for Leura.
Advertising. Saturday 4 January 1890, Katoomba Times, p4.
Extensive sales pitch based around the confirmed Leura Platform and Siding, and a Grand Picnic to celebrate its completion.
Deputation to the Railway Commissioners.
article. Saturday 22 February 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
In an article about a railway bridge at Katoomba, acting-Mayor Goyder mentions the railway bridge at Leura.
An embankment between Katoomba and Leura gave way.
jottings. Saturday 15 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p3.
After incredibly heavy rains, a landslide occurred on the railway between the two towns.
The railway line where the slip occurred.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
The failed embankment between Katoomba and Leura has been repaired.
Where the railway slip occurred.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
A workman is reported to have known about the potentially dangerous embankment between Leura and Katoomba for a year before it failed.
If one of the Katoomba Railway fettlers had not discovered the leakage.
jottings. Saturday 22 March 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Contends that had the embankment slip not been discovered early there would have been a very great accident.
Railway surveyors were measuring land.
Jottings. Saturday 19 April 1890, Katoomba Times, p2.
Mentions a dangerous gully at Leura when locating the Katoomba railway siding.