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

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

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A Train Derailed Carriages with Passengers Remain on the Rails Collapse of a Culvert Bo[?]n Gate

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 9

A mishap occurred to the Tottentham-Parkes train on Thursday between Began Gate and Trundle. The train was travelling at a low rate when…

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Killed by Motor Lorry Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 8

Goerge Redmend (6) was killed by a motor lorry at Glebe yesterday…

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Sydney Railway Smash Inquiry on Monday. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 9

A special inquiry into the railway accident at the Central Railway Station will be opened on Monday. Neither of the drivers in the smash has…

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Sydney Harbor Bridge Work Started To-day Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

Actual work on the construction of the Sydney Harbor bridge began this morning when a gang of men started excavating at Pawes Point for the…

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Railway Town Post[?]office

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 1

Progress is being made with the construction of the new Post Office at Railway Town, near the Burke Ward Hall. Mr. J. H. Wickes, the…

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Railway Union Council to Consider the Position. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 1

Mr. Smith, secretary of the Australian Railways Union, said on Saturday that he had summoned a meeting of his council to discuss the…

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Sydney Railway Smash Inquiry on Monday. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

A special inquiry into the railway accident at the Central Railway Station will be opened on Monday. Neither of the drivers in the smash has…

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Motor Car Fatality Priest Killed at Dunedin Christchurch (N.Z.), January 18

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

Father Francis Marlow, R[?]man Catholic priest of Dunedin, was krocked down and killed by a motor car on Sunday…

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Fatal Fall From a Tram Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

John Jenkins (46), residing at the Royal[?]Oak Hotel, Hindley-street, was admitted to the Adelaide. Hospital on Sunday suffering from head…

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Fire at Motor Works Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

A passerby noticing a reflection from Richards' motor building saw in the rear of the ground floor where rebuilding operations are in progress a…

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Killed by Train Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

"Edward Hoare met his death at the Alberton railway crossing on January 17 by being rum over by a train. The signalman, enginedriver,…

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Mr. F. G. White's Advice on Road to Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. F. G. White, of White and Hosier, writing to a friend in Broken Hill, advises motorists contemplating travelling to Adelaide by motor car…

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Derailed Passenger Train Goes Over Embankment Five People Killed (Reuter's Message.) London, January 18

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports:— The engine and the first coach of a passenger train were derailed when…

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Motor Car Falls 150 Feet Woman's Neck Broken Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

A motor car driver while endeavoring to avoid a collision on a street deviation near Raglan fell 150ft. over a steep bank. Mrs. Selwyn Tyler threw…

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Sydney Railway Smash Inquiry Opened in Camera. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

An official inquiry into the railway smash on Wednesday night was opened yesterday before the departmental board. The press was excluded. The…

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South Australia Coroner Conducts Inqulry Into Motor Car Fatality Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

Evidence given at an inquest this morning showed that an attempt made by the driver of a motor car to avoid a horseshoe lying on the Port-road…

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Fatal Railway Accident Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 3

A passenger train dashed into a buggy on the Lawrence Creek crossing near Beaufort on Saturday. Subsequently the mutilated body of Mrs…

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H.S.W. Railways First Section Is Opened of Molong-dubbo Line. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 3

The first section of the MolongDubbo railway to Yeoval, 34 miles, was officially opened at Molong yesterday by Mr. R. T. Ball, Minister…

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Outback Roads in Damaged Condition

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 3

The latest reports from outback show that the roads in the Wilcannia and White Cliffs districts are in a very bad state, and that unless people…

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Motor Lorry Driver Hurt in Collision with Trams Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

A motor lorry was caught and smashed between two trams in Oxford-street yesterday. The lorry driver, Harry Lee, was seriously…

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