North Shore Bridge
THE difficult task is almost completed of preparing to test the stability of the bed of Sydney harbor to ascertain what will have to be done to secure a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1903
335 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 17
Murwillumbah-Tweed Heads Railway
The Public Works Committee travelled to the Tweed Heads on Tuesday, and took evidence regarding the advisability of continuing the Lismore-Tweed railway to…
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Joseph Conlon, a well-known resident of Narrabri, was run over by a train yesterday and killed. His body was terribly mangled…
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THE undermentioned tenders for roadwork in the Raleigh electorate have been accepted by Mr. Grant, resident engineer at Bellingen:— Bellingen via Bowra to Congarini, J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Collision. London
Several persons have been killed and injured by a railway collision at Somerby…
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SIR,—I notice a letter in your valuable paper RE the above bridge, and fail to sea how any more appropriate name can be given to same, either by the Progress Association or the general public As I am…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electric Railway. London
Prussia is negotiating for the construction of an electric railway between Berlin and Hamburg, at a contract speed of 100 miles an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Increase. Sydney
The State railway revenue for September has increased by £31,130 and expenditure by £13,560…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lawrence-Bluff Point Ferry Road
Mr. Editor.—Permit me to direct attention to the dangerous hill on the main road from Lawrence to Bluff Point ferry. I noted a letter in your paper a short time…
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From what little can be seen from this work where it approaches the road, many essentials in a good track are being sacrificed to the consideration of expense. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales Railways
The report for the last quarter shows the earnings per train mile represented 6s 1½d, as against 5s 2¼d for the same quarter last year, and expenditure per train mile was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Wreckers. London
Train robbers have wrecked the Topeka express in America. The engine and four cars were thrown into a creek and thirty persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Fatality
A SHOCKING railway fatality has taken place at Indianopolis (U.S.A.). A train of gravel cars running down an incline collided…
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Alderman Page has given notice that he will move at to-morrow's meeting of the Borough Council:—"That application be made to the Honorable the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How France Maintains Her Good Roads
The repair system in vogue in France is what is termed there as the Cantonnier system. The roads are assigned by sections to road tenders or cantonniers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Over the Clarence
A motion moved by Ald. Page at last Council meeting in reference to the construction of a high-level bridge across the Clarence River is a progressive move in the proper direction. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train on Fire. LONDON
A fire broke out on the express between St. Petersburg and Moscow and as a result mail packets valued at £700,000 were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Railway Fight
CHARLES SMITH was shot and killed, and another man was seriously wounded in a battle with pistols and knives among half a dozen tramps in…
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AN interesting return was presented to the Legislative Assembly last week by the Minister for Works, with the object of showing the expenditure incurred up to date in connection with…
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FOLLOWING is the list of grants for scheduled roads on the Clarence for the current year:--Grafton district: Grafton to Casino £220, Grafton to Flying Horse…
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