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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1903

1,156 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 58

Cycling. Melbourne Motor Paced Tournament. Robl Defeats Taylor. Melbourne

National Advocate · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 2

The Melbourne Club promoted a Paced Cycling Tournament, which took place this afternoon and evening. The motor race of 8 miles…

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Railway Time Table. Oct 12Th, 19 [?] Orange to Sydney

Leader · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 1

The passengers main leaves Orange at 7.45 a.m. daily (Sunday e[?]pled), arriving [?] Bayney, 8.27 a.m., Ba[?] 9.31 a.m. Walterang 8.27 a.m., [?]thurat, 9.31 a.m…

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Strike in Holland. Railway Services Suspended. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 3

The railway employees of Holland have began a strike in support of the dockers, strike on the trade union question. The service on the State…

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Cycling. Melbourne Motor Paged Tournament. Robl Beats Taylor

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 2

The Melbourne Club promoted a Motor Paced Cycling Tournament, which took place at Melbourne on Saturday afternoon and evening. The…

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Victoria Railway Revenue. Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

The Victorian railway revenue is still on the down grade. For the week ended January 30, the cash paid into the Treasury by tho railway department…

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The Railway Drain

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

Mr. W. Turner informs us that on Friday he gave verbal notice to Ganger Roby that if nothing was done in two days he would fill the drain right up. On Saturday morning he received the following wire…

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Railways in Holland. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 3

The railway companies in Holland granted the men's demand…

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Man Found Dead. Head Out Off by a Train. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 2

The dead body of a man, 60 years of age, was found on the railway line at Waitara early this morning, and conveyed to the Morgue, where it was…

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Holland Railway Strike. LONDON, Monday Afternoon

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 4

The railway strikes in Holland are rapidly approaching a termination. Many companies have conceded the terms demanded by the men…

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Railway Strikes in Holland. London

Leader · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 2

The railway strikes in Holland are rapidly approaching a termination. Many companies have conceded the terms demanded by the men…

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A Railway for Mundooran

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 February 1903 · page 11

Mr. T. Pericles Manusu calls a public meeting to be held at Mundooran on Saturday, 14th, at 3 p.m., to consider the question of railway extension…

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Publicans—Road Contractors

Molong Argus · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

RECENTLY several residents of Orange wrote to the Minister for Works complaining of publicans being allowed to carry out road contracts. The Minister…

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Bathurst-Rockley Road

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

The Department of Public Works ha informed Mr. W. W. Young, M.L. A., that the proposed work of raising the Bath arst-Rockley road above flood level, must stand over until…

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Killed by a Train

The Gulgong Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

A selector at Gundagai, named Charlie MacKenzio, fell unconscious on to a railway line, and was run over by a train and killed…

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Cowra-Gregra Railway

Molong Argus · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 15

REGARDING the above, the Colonial Treasurer writes to Canowindra Railway League:—"Your letter to hand re report on Cowra-Gregra, Railway…

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The Railway Drain. Special Meeting of the Council

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 4

A special meeting of the Council was held last night for the purpose of meeting representatives of the Railway Commissioners, with a view to Arriving at some definite understanding in regard to the…

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Railway Extension. Meetings at Cobbora and Gulgong

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 2

Mr. James Loneragan, honorary secretary of the Mudgee Railway Extension League, has arranged for meetings to be held at Cobbora on…

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Another Tram Fatality. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 2

An old woman aged about eighty, at present unidentified, was killed on the tramline ia Oxford-street, Paddington, this morning. Both her legs were…

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Fatal Tram Accident. SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

An unknown woman about 70 years of age was run over and killed by a tram in Oxford-street, Paddington, to-day…

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A Railway Guard Injured

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

PENRITH, Friday.--At Hartley Vale station this afternoon Guard. Henry Colless, one of the oldest in the service, was in the act of putting a truck on to the train which he had charge of when he met with…

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