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Central Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1917

35 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Stopping The Train

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1917 · page 16

At Gosford Police Court on Friday a woman was charged with breaking the glass, pressing the button, and stopping the train at Hawkesbury…

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Railway Strike

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1917 · page 8

Railway men in Sydney workshops have gone on strike, and as a result about 40,000 people ace today out of employment. The railway men…

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The Railway Strike : Civil War. (To the Editor.)

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1917 · page 5

Sir,—Don't you think, Mr. Editor, it time the people of this district a little thinking on their own account? Let me suggest a few nuts…

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Proposed Northern Road

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1917 · page 3

Writing to the Parramatta ARGUS from Horns by, a correspondent says : —For years past, owing to the lack of a passable road, Hawkesbury River…

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The Strike. Miners at Work. Normal Train Services Resumed

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1917 · page 7

Seven out of the 12 collieries on the South Coast started work yesterday, but not with full complements of men…

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A Through Road

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 11 October 1917 · page 13

Mr. Henry F. Halloran has forwarded the following letter to the Shire Council :— Avoca, 4th October, 1917.—The…

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Railway Employees

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 October 1917 · page 3

The Railway Superannuation Board has decided that the action of employees of the railway and tramway service who left duty on strike was…

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Train Fired On

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 13

Four passengers travelling in the mail train bound to the north-west bad a narrow escape from serious injury on Monday evening. When…

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Our Train Service

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1917 · page 8

Mr. N. Cash, Gosford Post Office, has been interesting himself in the matter of our train service (no town in N.S.W. has a better train service…

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That Railway Fence

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 November 1917 · page 2

The following letter has been received by the Shire Council from the Railway Commissioners:—With reference to your letter of 16th…

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G.O.M. of Railway Service

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 November 1917 · page 14

Few men were so well-known in the country as Mr. E. Milne, Deputy Chief Railway Commissioner. His contagious patriotic spirit and love of…

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Woy. Railway Fatality

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 29 November 1917 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon Darcy Bell, a railway patrol man employed by the Railway Commissioners for the past 11 months as one of the guards at…

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Gosford's Loss by Train Alterations. To the Editor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1917 · page 8

Sir,—It will not perhaps Strike the people of Gosford—with their slow-going reputation—especially the business people whose apathy exceeds that of…

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The Gosford Racecourse Railway

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1917 · page 11

Mr. W. Lovel Davis replies to the statement of "A Gosfordite" made in a letter published in the Herald and Telegraph that £25,000 of the…

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Our Railway Service. Public Meeting Protest

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1917 · page 6

The alteration made in the railway timetable is not at all suitable to the public requirements of the people who come to or who live at Gosford or any…

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