Sensational Railway Smash. Sydney
A serious railway accident occurred on the Aberdare line, Maitland district, yesterday. A van next to the engine of a train…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
603 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 31
Serious Railway Accident
A serious railway smash occurred to the Moree outward-bound mail train. After leaving the platform, by some mischance the leading…
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SYDNEY, Thursday,—On Wednesday a passenger train left Cessneck for Maitland at noon with thirty odd passangers. Seven miles of the journey were…
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Commenting on the action taken here to secure a railway connection with the Tableland, the Glen Innes "Examiner" says:—"The movement that has begun to urge the construction of a…
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Two electric trams collided in George Street West yesterday afternoon. The impact was severe, four passengers being more or less injured,…
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John Carroll, aged 75 years, was run over and killed by a Globe tram last night. The body was horribly mangled…
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An engine, with a mixed load of cattle and produce trucks, was shunting at a siding near Orange when the trucks left the rails. One truck…
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An English cyclist, named Olley, has covered 1000 miles on the road in 105h. 3min., beating the previous record by 8h. 57min…
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Mr. Editor.—In a recent issue of your paper a Central Bucca correspondent wrote respecting the local effort in road-making. If I may be allowed to say something…
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Or maclean correspondent werites:—For some years the questions of the opening of roads reserved for the use of the public but closed by the adjoining landholders has engaged the…
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The Sydney crack racer, "Fairbanks," winner of the Champion Cup, is 36ft. 8in. long, 4ft. 1in. beam. With a 15-20 h.p…
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A Lower Manning correspondent writes : -- What about this spupid nonsence of not finishing the harbour works ? Mr. J. H. Carruthers…
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A novel event took place on the second day of the Bingara races, when a match was made that Mr. Arthur Simpson's 24 h.p. motor car would…
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Now that the Shires are to be their own road-makers, it might pay to tost the possibilities of the " log-drag " for cheap road-making (says a Sydney…
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The wretched tramp was sneaking along in his rags and his misery. Suddenly his dull eyes flashed. Was it the final gleam which the candle-light gives [?]re It expires…
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Every innovation that appears in our midst brings its own drawbacks with it. The yachtsman suffers from mal-de-mer, the mountaineer from mal-de-montagne…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dorrigo-Coast Railway. [To the Editor of the Raleigh Sun.]
SIR,—I am prepared to stand by and defend any statement I make, but I am not going to allow you or anyone else to attribute words to me…
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On his last trip to the Clarence Mr. J. M'Farlane, M.L.A., made a trip to Cangai, and was much impressed with the importance of that…
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A largely attended meeting of the above was held at Coff's Harbour on Tuesday, night. The president, Mr N. E. Osberg, presided. The hon. sec., Mr. P. J…
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There is another Richmond in the field, and advocates of the Coff's Harhour-Tabieland railway confiection will need to keep his movements under surveillance, writes the Armidale…
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