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Railways, roads & transport, 1910

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The Algerian Railway Accident. Extent of Losses. London. Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 5

The railway collison, recently reported, which occurred at Oran, Algeria, resulted in twenty persons being killed and forty others injured…

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Railway Workers in England. Dissatisfied with Conditions. London, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 5

There is grave unrest among railway workers in England, particularly in the Great Northern, Great Eastern, and North Eastern Railways. The men are dissatisfied with the awards made…

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Muswellbrook to Merriwa. New-railway Recommended

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 4

THE Public Works Committee has recommended the construction of a railway line from Muswellbrook to Merriwa, with a deviation through…

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Richmond Railway Disaster

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 4

The inquiry by the special board into the circumstances connected with the Richmond railway accident, near Mel bourne, was continued on Friday…

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Railway Fatality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 2

Thirty persons were killed and forty injured through a railway collision at Oran, Algeria…

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General Gables. London, Tuesday night. Canadian Railway Strikers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

The railway strikers at Winnipeg, Canada, have burnt 30 cars belonging to the Canadian Northern Railway…

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Aeroplane Comes Down

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 4

London, Monday.—Mrs Frank Francke, one of the gradually increasing number of women aviators, was making a flight near Sunderland to-day, when the…

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Died in the Train a Commercial Traveller's End (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 2

Henry Stock, aged 50, a commercial traveller, residing at Goulburn, was found dead in a carriage on the arrival of the mail train at Cootamundra this…

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Sulky and Tram Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 2

Last night, outside Page and Pearson's Picture Palace, a sulky, in which were seated a couple of persons, came into collision with the tram waiting in front of…

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Perth Tram Strike. Serious Results

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 1

Intense disappointment has been ex pressed at the failure of negotiations in connection with the tram strike at Perth. The position now is that both sides are…

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Algerian Railway Smash

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 4

London, Monday.—Thirty persons are reported to have been killed in a railway accident that occurred yesterday in Oran, Algeria. No details of the…

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Wrecked Train in Flames

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 12

A terrible railway collision, in which eighteen persons were killed and twenty injured occurred on the evening of June 18 near Versailles, France…

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Cessnock District Hospital. Bridge’s [?]Rejected

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 4

On Saturday evening the committee of the Cessnock Hospital met in Austey’s Sample Room to receive the report of the [?] committee appointed…

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Sleepwalker Injured. Walked Out of Train

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 2

A peculiar accident happened near Castlemaine, Victoria, on Wednesday to Norman Teal, 21, residing at Bendigo. Jeal was a member of a footbal team from Bendigo, playing at…

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A Veteran Railway Official

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 12

Mr. C. Burge, railway stationmaster at High-street railway station, retired form the serres on Friday, under the age limit, on three months leave of absence. Mr. Burge, who has been…

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Richmond Railway Disaster The Official Inquiry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 6

The inquiry into the Richmond railway accident was continued at Melbourne on Wednesday and Thursday. Signalman M'Donald was further…

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The Train Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 August 1910 · page 3

The execution of John Alexander Dickman, excolliery secretary for the murder of John Innes Nisbet, a colliery cashier, in a train near New castle, has been fixed for Tuesday. Many…

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Maitland Tramway Extension

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 August 1910 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly, last week, Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., put the following questing to the Hon. C. A. Lee, Minister of Public Works, in regard to the…

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The North Coast Railway. Plate Laying to Be Resumed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 August 1910 · page 3

For the past two months plate-laying on the first section of the North Coast railway has been hung up, consequent on the land slip at the Paterson end of the…

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The Coonamble Sensation Bridge Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 August 1910 · page 1

The inquiry into the cause of death of George Moores at Ulah Bore on July 24 has concluded at Coonamble. The Coroner's finding was that Darey…

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