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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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A Railway Guard's Death. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 January 1904 · page 4

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon on the body of J. Lennox, a railway guard, who died through inhaling nitric [?]ld fumes escaping…

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Street Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 4

THE number of passengers carried over the Government [?] tramways last week was 29,442. The number of passengers carried for the…

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Jumping on Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Stevenson, P.M., in the Police Court to-day, E. Hooking was pr[?]ded against, on the information of E. V. Shelvorton, for Jumping on to…

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Coalminers and Railwaymen

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 January 1904 · page 3

OF all classes of workpeople none are so Hable to accidents as coalminers and railway servants. To them a pot of Zam-Buk, taken down the pit or on to…

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Jumping on Trams

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Stevenson, P.M., in the Police Court to-day, E Hocking was proceeded against, on the information of W. H. Shelverton, for jumping on to…

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Street Trams

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 4

THE number of passengers carried over the Government street tramways last week was 29,442, The number of passengers carried for the…

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Augkland Tram Horror. The Inquest. [By Telegraph.] Auckland

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 2

The inquest was concluded yesterday afternoon on the bodies of the victims of the Auckland tram smash on Christmas eve, when over 100 persons were…

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A Railway Collision. Heavy Loss of Life. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

A passenger train travelling at the rate of 30 miles an hour collided yesterday with a cattle train about 14 miles westward of Topska, U.S.A…

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Terrible Railway Disaster London, Jan 7

Western Grazier · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

A terrible railway disaster is reported from America. A passenger train collided with a cattle train in K[?] and 30 passengers were killed and 30 others…

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Fire at Railway Town

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

AN outbreak of fire occurred at about 10 [?]0 this morning, in a four-roomed house in Gypsum street, next door to the Hillside Hotel. The premises were completely gutted…

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Run Down by a Train. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 2

A G[?]yra telegram states that as George Bates and his son William were returning home on a railway tricycle on Saturday night they were run down…

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The Street Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 2

THE number of passengers carried on the Government street trams last week was 24,894. Mr. W. H. Dorwood, J P., has been…

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Rates on Barrier Ores. Request to the Tramway Company

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 January 1904 · page 2

A Melbourne correspondent wired to the Register on Friday night:— "The depressed market existing for Silverton Tramway Company shares…

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Black Gate Menindie Road

Western Grazier · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

January nil, February 45 points, March 40, April 44, May 26, June 28, July 13, August 144, September 173, October 65, November 175, December…

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A Successful Motor Boat Race

Western Grazier · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 1

This motor boat race meeting at Melsona-Leffi the other day was very well begun and finished from every point of view. In the racer category, MM…

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Fire at Railway Town

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 January 1904 · page 2

A FEW minutes before 7 o'olook last evening the brigade was called to an outbreak of fire In Nt[?]h[?]lls-street, Railway Town, The fire waa in a…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. in Eastern Europe. a Road Cutrage. Preparing for Hostilities. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 4

The [?] Macedonian insurgent [?]eader Ch[?] nd other members of the V[?] to whom was alloted the task of pu[?]hing the…

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Attacked in a Train a lady's Fight for Honor

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

SOCIETY in [?]th [?]fford[?]ire is just now wrot[?] a London correspondent last month, all excitement over an outrage committed in the New castle-under[?] tunnel on Miss…

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Railway Porter Killed. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

A railway guard named Edward Cameron was engaged shooting at Clar[?]ont early yesterday morning, when his foot caught in a check rail, and he fell across the line, [?]…

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The Adelaide Trams. Electrification Decided On. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

A meeting of the representatives of all the Adelaide tramway companies was held yesterday to discuss thede[?]blences of applying electricity to the whole or such portion o[?] the…

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