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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1919

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Five Times Late Goods Train to Young

Young Witness · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 2

With reference to the deputation which waited on the Railway Commissioners when on tour recently relative to the train service between…

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Runaway Train Speed of 100 Miles an Hour. Driver Dies From Burns. Wellington (N.z.)

Young Witness · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 6

A sensational runaway and wreeking of a goods train oocured at N. Talhape last night. The trucks were going down a steep inc[?]ne, when the…

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Co-operation a Big Movement. Producers Determined to Market Their Own Produce. The Business of John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Sydney, Acquired

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 3

We owe it to our numerous clients business connections, and sympathetic producers in the country to make a public pronouncement of…

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Delayed Buiter What Railway Commissioners Say

Young Witness · Friday 16 May 1919 · page 2

With reference to the deputation which waited on the Railway Commissioners when at Young recently, relative to the transit of fruit and…

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Detroit—The Motor Car Centre !

The Yass Courier · Monday 19 May 1919 · page 2

Detroit is the home of motor manufacture in the United States, and there are more cars turned out from that city to-day than from any…

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How the Railways Help!

Young Witness · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 6

A letter was received from the Under Secretary for Agriculture by Young P. and A. Association yesterday, in [?] carriage of fruit…

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Roslyn-Taralga Railway

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 May 1919 · page 2

Speaking at Paddington on Monday night the Premier, Mr Holman, in dealing with the returned soldier and labor…

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Motor Cycle Club for Goulburn. Initial Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1919 · page 2

A meeting of motor-cycle owners was held in the Protestant Hall, Market-street, on Wednesday, but owing to the bad weather only 12 attended. It was decided that a club be…

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Double Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 May 1919 · page 2

Gundagai, Wednesday.—Mr. M'Sweeney, his wife, and child were motoring the Melbourne from Cootamundra, but when at Hillas Creek the car overturned. Mrs. M'Sweeney and the…

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Killed in Motor Cars Two Distressing Accidents. Four Lives Lost

Young Witness · Friday 30 May 1919 · page 6

ADHLONG, Friday.—At Deltrolt Station last night, while Mr. Maconochie, of Oberne station, was driving home from Melbourne, accompanied…

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Train Robbed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Lyons correspondent, in a message on 18th May, reports that a railway mail van was robbed between Laroche and Dijon stations. Fifty-one sacks were ripped up, and 48,260 francs…

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Double Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 2

News of a sad fatality reached Wagga on Wednesday evening, Mrs. Duane, wife of Mr. W. F. Duane, and her youngest child, aged 15 months, having been killed in a motor car. accident. Mr…

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Tram Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 4

Two trams collided in George-street, west. The conductor of one was thrown out and seriously injured. The cars escaped with slight damage…

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Railway Jubilee

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 2

Tuesday last was the jubilee of the opening of the railway to Goulburn, the line from Marulan to Goulburn having been opened on May 27, 1869. The construction of the line…

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Killed by a Train

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 2

CULCAIRN, Monday.—John Bates, aged 35, formerly, employed at the Culcairn Hotel, was run over and killed by the Sydney Express three…

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Local and General. Collapse of a Bridge

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 2

Whilst a large tractor, belonging to the chaffcutting plant of Mr Wills, of Crookwell, was being driven over Fisher's bridge on the Young Road on…

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Railway Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 June 1919 · page 1

PARKES, Saturday.—Albert Schnaabel, who was engaged in shunting at the Parkes Railway Station, was pinned between the buffers and…

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Motor Service to Taralga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1919 · page 4

Messrs. Donchue and Hoare, mail contractors, will start a mail and passenger service to Taralga on 16th June. The timetable is advertised in this issue…

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Two Boys Killed Sad Railway Fatality. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 6 June 1919 · page 1

While two boys named Walker, sons of a widowed mother residing at Granville, were crossing the railway line at the Junction of the Carlingford…

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Railway to Jervis Bay. Yass Resident's Advice to Wagga Wagga

The Yass Courier · Monday 9 June 1919 · page 2

The ‘Wagga Express’ of 6th inst. Writes :—“There was before the Council last night a letter from Mr. C. J. Livingston, Yass, Putting…

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