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

Railways, roads & transport, 1919

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A Motor Car Experience

Molong Argus · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

Messrs Beattie (Town Clerk) and Chapman (secretary of the P.P. Board) had a somewhat strenuous holiday jaunt during Xmas week…

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Eugowra Railway

Molong Argus · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

A largely attended meeting was held at Eugowra to consider the best means to adopt to hasten the construction of the railway extension from Canowindra…

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Inter-state Motor Cycle Trial Sydney to Melbourne. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 2

The seventh inter state motor cycle trial between Sydney and Melbourne, via the South Coast and Gippsland, went off without a…

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Died in the Train. on His Way to Mudgee

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 2

An elderly man was found dead in the 8.30 passenger train at Mittagong on Tuesday afternoon. The name of James Le Fevre was in a…

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The Recent Cumnock Motor Fatality

Leader · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 1

On Tuesday, the 24th December, the interment of Messrs Brydon, and Lindsay, the victims of the unfortunate motor lorry accident at The Gap, took…

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Sensational Motor Car Happening

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 2

A motor car containing Miss Ollie Polipi, the well-knwon actress, her husband and two friends, crashed over an embankment near Palm…

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Six Miles Up New Altitude Record. Australian Motorist's Feat Vancouver

National Advocate · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 2

A London message says that Captain Lang, an English airmen, flying an English aeroplanes at Ipswich, created a new altitude record,…

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Goods Train Derailed Traffic Blocked. Driver Kinney Injured. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 3

While a good train of a brake van and six trucks containing; coal, which had come from Clyde, was being shunted at Valley Heights on the Blue…

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The Train Hold Up

Leader · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 4

Wilfred Larsen, the principal of the Western mail sensation of December 21 last, has not yet recovered sufficiently to reappear before the…

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Future of the Aeroplane. Sydney to London in Four Days

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. Murdoch has interviewed Messrs. Holt and Thomas, leading aeroplane, manufacturers, who stated that they were confident that within a reasonable time mail services at the rate…

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Turon Roads Engineer's Report

National Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 1

Mr. J. O'Neill (Engineer) reported lo the Turon Shire Council, at its monthly meeting, that the expenditure on Various roads amounting to £492…

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Tooraweenah Railway League

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 18

A meeting of the Tooraweenah Railway League was held in the Tooraweenah Public hall on Saturday afternoon, January 4. There…

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Cricket. RAILWAY V. CULLENBONE

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 18

The following team will represent Railway against Cullenbone on Saturday next on Victoria Park wicket:—F. Webster, A. Mogg, A…

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Katoomba Mains Case. Long Road of Litigation

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

The Katoomba council, by long and expensive litigation, has at last been successful in rating the mains of the local gas company. Proceedings started two years ago when a…

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Alleged Delays at the Railway Yards

Molong Argus · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 7

At the F.S.A. meeting, on Satur day last, Mr A. Rednedge complained of teams being hang up at the railway yards recently because there was no…

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Railway Smash at Hurstville Carriages Badly Damaged. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Damage to the extent of about £700 was done this morning to two railway carriages in a smash at the Hurstville Siding. Shorty after 7 o'clock…

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The City Railway

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 8

The Minister for Railways stated recently, that "when money is again available the Government will have to consider the city railway." If that were the truth, the whole…

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Road Improvements

Leader · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 1

At present a big improvement is nearing completion on the Forest Road, at the cross roads to Tallwood, and Forest Reefs. For years this…

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Bathurst Train Hold-Up Larsen Committed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 2

Wilfred Larson, a young man was on Friday charged with having attempted to rob James Whelan, the driver of the Forbes mail train, near…

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Mangled by Train Tragedy at Wallerawang

National Advocate · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 2

A middle-aged man named Robinson, who resided with his wife and one child at Lithgow, was run over by a train at the…

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