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Trains of the Bulli Colliery 1858-1993

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  Trains and Trams of the Bulli Coal Company Line (Bulli Colliery to Sandon Point Jetty and Mainline) 1858- 1993 Chronology and Bibliography Compiled by Michael Organ Bulli coal mine jetty, c.1871. Introduction The following is a chronological listing of historical references to trains, trams and the construction and operation of the Bulli Colliery to Sandon Point tramway and railway line between the years 1858 and 1993. Also included are references to the various sidings associated with the Bulli Cokeworks, which operated on site between 1889-1930, and the nearby Vulcan and Newbolds brickworks. 1839-40 - Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott attempted to mine coal at Bulli. He is stopped, in part, by the Australian Agricultural Company rights to mine coal in New South Wales. c.1858 - Preliminary coal mining operations commence at Bulli Colliery. This includes survey work, geological investigations, construction of access roads and excavation of preliminary shafts and adits. 1860

Incident at Sikayana

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Index | Ship History | Scherzer Diary | Expedition Narrative | Sydney | Selleny | Bibliography | Novara Expedition | Hochstetter I | Blanche Mitchell Diary | Minnie Mann Diary | Hochstetter II | FitzRoy Dock | Scherzer in Sydney | Frauenfeld Diary | Incident at Sikyana | Sydney Chronology | Appendicies | Lissa 1866 | Ferdinand Maximillian Incident at Sikayana A so-called Outrage carried out upon the Inhabitants of the Stewart Islands, by the Crew of the Austrian Frigate Novara, 16-17 October 1858 Josef Selleny, Sikayana , watercolour, 1858. Introduction The charge of 'outrage' committed against Indigenous populations by officially-sanctioned exploring and scientific expeditions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was not one easily dismissed, or in many instances taken seriously. Such a charge was brought against the Austrian Novara scientific expedition of 1857-9, by a group of Australians and Stewart Islanders at the beginning of 1860, more tha