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Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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Appalling Railway Smash. in France. People Pinned Burning Debris. Paris, Nov. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 5

The day express from Marsilles, including corridor carriages and restaurant cars, due to Paris at 10 o'clock last night, collided with a postal train going to…

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Railways Pool Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 5

The Scottish Railway Companies have resolved to pool unremunerative competitive traffic from January next…

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Train Robbery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 3

Hubert Orton Miller appeared before Mr Allnut, P.M., at Muswellbrook on Tuesday, on a charge of perjury. The principal evidence, a…

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The Train Sensation. Miller's Confession

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 1

HUBERT ORTON MILLER appeared before Mr. Allnutt, P. M. at Muswellbrook on Tuesday, on a charge of Perjury. The principal evidence,…

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French Train Disaster. Shocking Scenes. Latest Particulars. Paris, Nov. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 5

In connection with the disastrous collision between the Marseilles express and a postal train, near Melu[?], in which over 40 people were killed, one of the vans on the postal…

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Railway Auction Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4

The potato market showed signs of improving at the produce auction sales. The reduced supplies, also the smaller consignments arriving at present from the interstate…

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Railway Auto-Cars

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4

So far the railway auto-cars have not been a gigantic success (says the Brisbane correspondent of the "Toowoomba Chroncile"). They have contracted an unpleasant…

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Motor Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4

Messrs. Grey and Handcock's motor car will run twice daily between Gresford and Paterson, and all parcels booked will receive prompt attention…

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Railway Timetable. Sydney and Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 6

Trains leave West Maitland for Sydney at 2.26 a.m. (Moore mail), 4.40 a.m. (Mondays excepted), 5.35, 6.48 a.m. (Brisbane express), 8.17, 11.13 a.m., and 5.37 p.m. [?]…

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Motor Tours Across the Southern Tablelands

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 7
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Southern Tableland of the State offers a number of lovely motoring and cycling tours, several of which are unexcelled in the whole of Australia…

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Looping the Loop. M. Pegoud's Aeroplane Feat. a Daring Display

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 15

At Brooklands, England, before a vast crowd, M.Pegoud, the French pilot, recently performed the apparently impossible by flying upside down, by looping the loop, and…

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Looping the Loop. M. Pegoud's Aeroplane Feat, A Daring Display

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 2

At Brooklands, England, before a vast crowd, M. Pegoud, the French pilot, recently performed the apparently impossible by flying upside down, by…

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French Train Disaster. Unheeded Signals. Engine-driver's Confusion. Paris, Nov. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

When the magistrates examined Du[?]ne the driver of the Marseilles express, yesterday, he stated that the signals were town as he approached the crossing…

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French Railway Smash. Nearly Fifty Killed. Paris

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 2

Later details of the shocking collision between the Marceilli's express train and a postal train al Mulun-show that it was one of the worst railway disasters that has ever…

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The Life of To-day. Unwanted Motors and Dwarf Houses. Why Men Don't Marry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

"When all is said and done, a nation's life must come from the land, from its own land, or someone else's. And it is better that it should come from its own," writes Allen…

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Motor Tours Across the Southern Tablelands

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 3

The Southern Tableland of the State offers a number of lovely motoring and cycling tours, several of which are unexcelled in the whole of Australia…

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Safeguards on Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 12

At a moment when Aisgill and other accidents have directed the public mind, to the possibility of eliminating the fallible "human factors" from the risks of railway…

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New Zealand Strike, Miners and Tram Men Out. Firemen Leave Vessels. Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

The wharf-labourers on strike were orderly to-day. No trams will be run tomorrow. The employees at the Exhibition Buildings have ceased working. Justices…

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Railway Auction Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5

No material alteration in prices in the produce sales to-day. Lucerue hay from Johnson, Scone, brought 3/9; Stafford, 3/; Volmer, west Maitland…

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