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

Railways, roads & transport, 1913

2,601 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 131

Trams Collide. a Peculiar Accident. Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 4

Owing it is believed, to and excrescence on a newly-spliced cable, three trams crashed together on Princes Bridge last night, each being…

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Railway Emplov[?]e Runs Amok BRISBANE

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1913 · page 2

An exciting scene took place at Nelia Vale, Richmond Ponds, North Queensland, on Saturday night, when a German named Cugetson, employed…

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Motorists and Pedestrians. Rights of the Road. London

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

Since the motor bus fatality some days ago, when a policeman was killed while regulating the traffic in Ludgate Circus, motorists are noticeably more…

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From Every Point of View. Cargo-Orange Road

Leader · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

Sir,—I beg leave to trespass on the columns of your Journal for the purpose of bringing before the notice of the Shire Councillors the deplorable…

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Motoring Accident. Wellington (N.z.)

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 2

A motor car capsized over a bank on the Hill-road to Akaroa. Herbert Pearce, his wife, and child, and G.Pengally, his wife, and two children, were…

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Mismanagement. Transcontinental Railway. Adelaide

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

" There is an expressed determination to do our best for our party at the elections," said Sir John Forrest,to-day."I am going back to Western…

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Motor-driver's Mishap. Hand Terribly Crushed. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 2

Leslie Tuckett (21) was driving a motor lorry in Regent-street, Redfern, to-day, when it collided with a post, with the result that Tuckett had his…

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Hanged in a Train. Millionaire's Death. Murder and Robbery

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 4

A millionaire cattle-raiser named Berger has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in a train near Chemnitz, Saxony…

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Mother's Leap to Death. Escape of a Child in Arms Under a Train

National Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 4

Jumping from the platform in front of an incoming electric train, with her twelve-months-old child in her arms, Violet Maud Alltrop, twenty-six, wife…

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Our Beautiful Railway Station

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 2

Details have already been published by the "Times" of the defects of the beautiful railway station with which Bathurst is afflicted. That the station…

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A Narrow Escape. Wheel Comes Off a Motor Car. Forbes

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 1

Mr. G.T>Weaver and a visitor from Blayney were returning to Forbes in a Maxwell motor car, and when opposite "Pine Park" the near front wheel of…

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Railway Men Want More Pay. Vancouver

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 2

All the grades of railway men in Canada are demanding a 10 per cent increase in wages…

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Sulky Smash at Green Hills. Claim Against Motor Driver. A Case that Failed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 10

At the Cassilis Police Court Francis Cecil Hackett was proceeded against by Walter George Dray to recover the sum of £10 for damages…

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Cross Country Railway Still More Inquiry. Merriwa's Evidence

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 29

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, who have under consideration the expediency of constructing a line of railway from…

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Main Roads and Motor Cars

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 8

Shire councillors have come in for rebuke from Sydney's senior morning paper. "Deny the fact as councillors may," says the "Herald," "no fair-minded man can…

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The Ophir Road

Leader · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 4

Sir,—Would you kindly allow me a little space in your widely read paper to call attention to the dangerous and abominable practice of converting…

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Train Dangers-in America

Leader · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 4

According to statistics (says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph'). America has more train accidents and loses more lives in…

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Thrown From His Aeroplane. German Airman Killed. Berlin

The Bathurst Times · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 4

Another German aviator, Herr. Huell, has paid the toll of the air. Whilst makings a flight at Aixla-Chapelle, the frontier' city of Rhenish…

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Shocking Railway accident Train Dashes Into Sulky. Occupants Frightfully Mangled. Werris Creek

National Advocate · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 3

On the arrival of the passenger train from Sydney last night, the engine was noticed to be bespattered with blood. It was found that at Wingen…

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Train Dashes Into Sulky Man Cut to Pieces. Scone

The Bathurst Times · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 4

Mr. Thomas O'Brien, a prominent resident of the district for many years, and recently licensee of the Durham Hotel, Wingen, was cut to pieces by…

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