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Railways, roads & transport, 1910

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Railways and Tramways. Important Works

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 11

Extensive railway works are now in progress in the State, and Parliamentary sanction has been given for additional undertakings which will involve an enormous outlay. Some idea of what is…

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High Up the Winding Road the Homing of the Herds

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 5

Towards the end of September, when the High Alps are more beautiful than any orthodox summer tourist knows, the abiding stillness which lies upon the…

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Awkward Railway Arrangements

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 4

The new railway timetable does not remove very real grievances to which, we have previously called attention, 'The down Brisbane mail only conveys passengers from…

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Brennan Mono-Railway. Trial in England

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 12

The railway train of the future—the self-balancing single-rail car fitted with gyroscopes—run on its first trial trip to-day (says the correspondent of the "Daily Express" on November…

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Motor Launch "Parsee" in a Gale. Thrilling Experience

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 11

The well-known cruising launch Parsee, owned by Mr. C. J. Britten, of Tamworth, had a narrow escape from destruction through being dashed on to the rocks at Smedley's Point, North…

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Late Cables. London, Thursday. Oairo to Cape Railway

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 5

The latest section of the Cairo to Cape railway to be opened is that to Wad Medani; 120 miles southwards of Khar toum. The opening ceremony will take…

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New Railway Carriages

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 7

The staff of carriage builders at the Newcastle (Vie.) Workshops has com pleted the construction of the first train of sliding-door carriages. This train has…

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Holiday Train Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 2

Despite the fact that New Year's Day is regarded as the holiday of the your, upon which large numbers make a practice of journeying to the seaside city, there to spend the day on the beach or in…

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Aeroplane As a Cab

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 7

It is some time since M. Santos-Dumont brought, home the possibilities of steerable balloons by calling at his balcony in the Champs Elysees in order to get a cigarette…

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Old London Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 6

Mr. Thornton Hall, F.S.A., has a most interesting article in "Great Thoughts" on old London Bridge, the stage on which, more perhaps than any other, the drama of human…

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Terrible Railway Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

Mr. Spencer Trask, a New York banker, was killed in a railway collision at Croton, near New York. Mr. Trask was sleeping in his private car attached to the mail Montreal…

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General Cable News. Railway Society's Secretary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

Mr. Richard Bell, M.P. (Labour) for Derby, has resigned the general secretaryship of the Amalgarmated Society of Railway Servants. The society put on record its sincere thanks…

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Railway Disaster in America. Loss of Life. London, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

A California special has been derailed on the Rockiesland line. The derailed carriages caught fire, and five persons were killed and nine others injured, several fatally…

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Awkward Railway Arrangements

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 4

THE new railway timetable dees not remove very real grievances to which we have previously called attention (says the Mercury). The down…

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The Strike and Railway Revenue

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

It is admitted that even Singleton is a good- barometer from which to judge how the coal strike has affected the railway revenue "all of a heap," as it…

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Railway Fatality. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

Spencer Trask, a well-known New. York banker, has been killed in a railway collision…

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Highest Bridge in the World

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

The Paris correspondent of "Times" says Fades railway viaduct, which is to carry the Paris main lie between Monstlucon and Clement Ferrand over the Sloule gorge,…

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Very Latest Cables. Manhatton Suspension Bridge. a Costly Enterprise. London, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

The Manhattan suspension bridge, the fourth over the East River between Brooklyn, New York, and Manhattan Island, costing £5,200,000 has been opened…

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Awkward Railway Arrangements

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 4

THE new railway timetable does not remove very real grievances to which we hare previously called attention. The down Brisbane mail only conveys…

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Local and General News. East Greta Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

A notification in this issue, signed by Mr. A. Thomas, general manager of the East Greta Coal-mining Company, intimates that on and after Sunday next the services on the railway between…

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