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

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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Railway Rates on Ore

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 7

CONCERNING the proposal to con[?] sturct a line of railway from Broken Hill to Cockb[?]rn in opposition to the Sliverton Tramway Company's line[?]…

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A Missing Boy. Found on the Road. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 January 1904 · page 2

A boy named Conna[?]hton has bees missing from Cowra for some days. Search parties had been cut since…

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Fall from a Train

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. W. Smith, late engineer in charge of the Umbarumberka works, met with on accident at Silverton yesterday afternoon. Mr. Smith went…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall Over a Bridge. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 2

Francis R. [?]ffle, laborer, 22 years of age, was found under the Campa[?] River bridge at Elmore yesterday with his [?]eck broken. He is supposed to…

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Underground Railway Accident. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 2

Another [?]ident occurred in the Pa[?] undergronnd railway yeaterday, near Belleville station, A number of passengers were Injured…

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A Delayed Train

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

THE Adelaide train was an hour and 20 minutes late in arriving in Broken Hill this morning. The delay was caused through a wheel box of a fresh food van attached to the…

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Cobar-Wilcannia Railway

Western Grazier · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

ALL hope of the construction of the Cobar-Wilcannia railway line being carried out in the immediate future seems to have gone but after all we must…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

George Maxwell, a married man, with six children, a ganger, in the service of the New South Wales Railway Commissioners, was cut to pieces on the railway at Parkes…

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George F. Train

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 3

MR G F. TRAIN, of New York, whose death was recently cabled, and a most extraordinary career. He was born in Boston, U S A, on March 24, 1829,…

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A Train Stuck Up. LONDON, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 4

A band of brigands stopped and boarded a Soutbern Pacific train between St Louis and On[?]e (in California), U.S.A., and stole 50,000…

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Government Street Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

THE number of passengers carried by the Government street trams last week was 27,627…

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Run Down by a Train. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

Last evening James Tilbrook (36) and his wife were driving from the Hills towards Glenelg, and when crossing the railway line a train…

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The Railway Town Fatality

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 4

THE coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.) held an inquest at the Australian Club Hotel this morning into the circumstances attending the death of Emily…

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Train Robbery in the Transv[?]al. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 2

Two of the man implicated in the train robbery at Nyistroom, in the Transvaal, in November, when £10,000 worth of the Standard Bank's specle…

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The Trams

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 3

MR. W. H. J. SHGLVGETON, officer in charge of the Government tram ways, has obtained six weeks' leave of absence, and will leave for Sydney on…

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The Trans Australian Railway

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

Amid all the speculation and uncertainty that prevail on [?] late of the Government within the [?] few months the Trans[?] railway, like other…

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Tramway Men's Grievances Sydney

Western Grazier · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

A mass meeting of the tru[?] employees was held at the Trades Hall last night when the question of the [?]pended classiffication and in[?]…

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Proposed Tramway to Cockburn

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

IN consequence of a misunderstanding which has for some time past existed between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the Silverton Tramway Company regarding the…

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The Proprietary Tramway. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 1 February 1904 · page 2

Mr. Kidd, Minister for Mines, interrogated yesterday with regard to the proposed Broken Hill Proprietary Company's tramway from Broken Hill…

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The Proprietary Tramway

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 1

WHEN asked this afternoon whether he could afford any information regarding the freight difficulty which has arisen between the Silverton…

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