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

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

2,446 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 123

Motor Traffic Breaches

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 11

Cecil Baker, who wrote a letter to the Court pleading guilty, was fined £1 and 8/- costs for failing to stop his car on the left hand…

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Motor Cycle and Car Collide. Three People Injured. SYDNEY

Leader · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 1

Three persons, named Robert, Sylva and Marjorie Brown, were injured when a motor car and motor cycle and [?] callided at Leichhutait…

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Motor Train Fatality. Melbourne

Leader · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 5

When a railway motor train, containing 17 passengers, left the rails on January 9, Mrs. [?] Tyquin, 66, suffered shocking Injuries to her legs…

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Struck by Train Returned Soldier's Death Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

A man named Thomas Clark, aged 40, a returned soldier who escaped early this morning from the Liverpool State Hospital, was later…

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Texaco Carbon Test. at Motor Show

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 22

One of the most interesting exhibits at the motor show is undoubtedly the Hot-Plate Carbon Test by the Texas Company…

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Bees Saved Motor Lorry Ablaze Midnight Fire at Bathurst

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 15

When a naked light from a hurricane lamp came in contact with a quantity of petrol which was being poured into the tank of a…

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Tyre Blows Out Railway Man Injured

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

When the tyre of a motor cycle blew out on the Perthville Road, about a mile from Perthville yesterday, the machine fell over an…

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Train Shooting Dane in Serious Condition PERTH

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

Frank Ballanger, a Dane, was shot in the groin while travelling in the train between Dongarra and Three Springs, about 200 miles from…

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A Back Down Molong Magistrate and Motor Case Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police ordered the withdrawal of proceedings against J. O. Arkins of North Sydney for a breach of the Motor…

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Motors—roads—traffic

Leader · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 6

The maximum flue (£211) under the present Act, was inflicted by a Sydney magistrate upon a drunken driver, recently, reports the N.R.M.A. In…

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Motor Train Derailed CROOKWELL

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

The motor train due at Crookwell from Goulburn last night was derailed through colliding with a bullock on the line. Nobody was…

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Aeroplane for Australia MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

The first of the new de Haviland treble engined 14 passenger aeroplanes to be operated over the east west area will be brought to Australia in…

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Katoomba Show. Train Arrangements

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 3

The Railway Department states that special arrangements have been made for intending train travellers to Katoomba Show, to be held on…

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Sunday Night Train to Orange

Leader · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

It will be news to many [?] Orange that a train leaves Sydney every Sunday night, alter the ma[?] have left, and runs far as Orange…

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Main Western Road. Five More Miles of Reconstruction. Katoomba

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 3

A further five -mile section of the main western road is now about to be reconstructed, commencing from the termination of the present new…

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Bowenfels to Marrangaroo. Reconditioning the Main Road. Commencement in Six Weeks

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

If arrangements regrading tenders can be satisfactorily settled, a commencement with the reconditioning of the main road from South Bowenfels to Marrangaroo Creek should be made in about six weeks' time…

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Consideration Deferred Circular Quay Railway Station Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

In consequence of the non-receipt of a report from the Railway Commissioners with regard to the Circular Quay Railway…

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Motor Lorry Fatality. One Killed; Three in Hospital. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

[?] in which [?] and [?] to their homes from the swimming [?] [?] late last night crashed into…

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Sydney Tram Fatality. 12-Year-Old Boy Killed. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

Whilst supping tram the back of a tram to a car In front, at [?] newsboy, slipped and fell…

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Wilbetree Road

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

The Gylgong-Mudgee road via Wilbetree is now used by a large number of local residents and travellers, in preference to the main…

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