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

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

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The Railway Extension. Mudgee Cobbora. Works Committee Hears Evidence. Project Unopposed. Plan of Route

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 18

The Parliamentary Public Works Committee appointed to consider the proposed construction of a railway from Mudgee to Cobbora met at the…

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Bathurst Cycling and Motor Club

National Advocate · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

A special meeting of the members of the Bathurst Cycle and Motor Club is to be hold at the Royal Hotel to-night, when important business is to be…

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Eskbank Cycle and Motor Club

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 4

A meeting of this club was club was held at Mr. Hunting's hotel last night--Mr. C. Goodwin, sen., in the chair. Several letters of interest to the club dealing chiefly with…

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Bathurst Cycle and Motor Club

National Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 2

Aa the rather high entrance fee to the Bathurst Cycle and Motor Club was a barrier to large membership, it was decided on the motion of Mr L D…

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Runaway Train. Sydoey

Leader · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 3

A railway train loaded with sleeper bolted at Collie, West Australia, yesterday and dashing into the station yard, left the rails. The driver and…

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Cycling. Bathurst Cycle and Motor Club

National Advocate · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 2

Owing to the near approach of the Rathurst Show and the consequent pressure of business, Mr A H Newsham has been compelled to resign his position as secretary of…

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Forged Railway Scrip. London, Friday afternoon

National Advocate · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 4

Charles Seton, a lawyer, and Samue[?] Humphreys, a journalist, of New York, have been arrested for counterfeiting hundreds of thousands of pounds worth…

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Made in Germany. Cheap Railway Cars for London. London, Friday afternoon

National Advocate · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 2

The Metropolitan Railway Company has ordered 440 carriages from Germany greatly disappointing all the British building firms. The latter were…

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Railway Concessions. Summer School. Sydney

Leader · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners have placed the summer school on the same tooting as public conference by allowing the teachers the same rates of…

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Counterfeiting Railway Shares. London

Leader · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 2

Charles Seton, a lawyer, and Samuel Humphreys, a journalist, New York, were arrested for counterfeiting hundreds of…

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Dunkeld to Evans Plains Road

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Mr W W Young, M.L.A., has lately been making personal inquiries from the Works Department as to what is being done in the matter of the road from Dunkeld to Evans…

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Murdered in a Tunnel. Another Railway Horror. London

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

M Durel, a French Architect at Geneva, has been murdered in a train while passing through a tunnel and robbed of £14,000. Two youths have…

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Eskbank Cycle and Motor Club. the Coming Carnival

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The above club held a meeting at Mr. W. Smith's hotel last night -- Mr. H. Godwin in the chair. Letters, bearing on the holiday arrangements in connection with…

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Record Railway Revenue

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 1

For a long time N.S. Wales railway officials have been ambitious to get a week's earnings up to six figures, and in the first week of 1906 this was realised. For the…

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The Eskbank Postal Pillar. Office of the Railway Commissioners, Sydney, 11th January, 1906

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Sir, -- Referring to your letter of the 11th inst. regarding the removal to another position of the postal pillar at Eskbank station, I have to inform you that this work…

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Rydal to Lithgow Service. Office of the Railway Commissioners, Sydney, 12th January, 1906

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Sir, -- I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter cf the 11th inst. relative to the stoppage of the morning goods trains at Rydal to pick up passengers for…

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Railway Association

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Railway Engine Drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association was held in the lodge-room of the Oddfellows'-hall on Sunday afternoon,…

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Motor Farming Gains Ground

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 3

Farming is rapidly entering upon a new era; it has in fact, entered it. The motor plough, harrow, cultivator, etc., are an existing fact, and a motor farm waggon has…

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More Train Wrecking

Leader · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

Some time during Tuesday night a valuable steel rope, need at the mill aiding for shunting purposes was placed across the railway line about…

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Run Down by a Train. Melbourne

National Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

William Pule, a booking clerk at Windsor station, was run down by a train to-day and shockingly injured. He is in a critical condition…

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