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Railways, roads & transport, 1915

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Railway Time Table. Sydney and Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 7

Trains leave West Maitland for Sydney at 2.26 a.m. (Moree mail), 4.58 a.m. (Mondays excepted), 5.45 6.48 a.m. (Brisbane express), 11.16 a.m. 12.8 p.m. (Saturday only…

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Motor-cycle in War

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

For the first time in the history of the world the motor-cycle may be called upon to take no unimportant part in what may prove to be the greatest…

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Improvements on the Railway

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 3

Right atong the line from Newcastle to West Maitland improvements are under way. The various stations along the route are being…

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How He Kept the Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 10

At Sailly, near Lille, a French marksman was stationed at a swing bridge with two comrades to load for him (says the "Standard" war correspondent). The colonel simply…

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Operations in a Train. British Travelling Hospital

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

The first of the special British hospital trains has just passed through here on its way to the front wrote a Boulogue correspondent to the London "Daily Mail." The…

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Attack on Picnic Train. Broken Hill Sensation. Four Persons Killed and Seven Wounded. Two Turks Shot

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 14

A tremendous sensation was caused at Broken Kill on Friday, when the report was circulated that Turks had attacked a picnic train, conveying pleasure-seekers to…

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Motor Cars in British Army

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 1

Leading authorities have proclaimed the 2-seater car is incomparable, for the reason that rough, hard, or bogg roads are all the same to it. The [?]…

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Tram Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 2

Miss Lena Beecham, a visitor to Newcastle from Kembla, fell from a tram on Tuesday morning, and sustained a fracture Of both bones of the right leg balow the knee. Miss…

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Motor-cycle in War

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

For the first time in the history of the world the motor-cycle may be called upon to take no unimportant part in what may prove to be the greatest…

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Passing Standing Trams. Coroner's Criticism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

The traffic regulation of the City Council Sydney, dealing with motor cars passing standing tram cars came in for some criticism by Mr. H. S. Hawkins, the City…

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Railway Labourers. Support P.l.l

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 7

An attempt was made yesterday, after many days delay, to deal with the big business paper of the annual conference of the Railway Workers and General…

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Dubbo-werris Creek Railway. Uncreased Agriculture Expected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 11

Over one hundred extra men will be employed on the Dubbo-Werris Creek railway construction works on Monday next. The earthworks are now almost completed to…

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Railway Workers. Annual Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 14

At the annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Labourers Association, which was opened in Sydney yesterday, the Presidest Mr. W. Rosser, in his…

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Fire in Tube Railway. Two Hundred Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 5

New York, Thursday.- The whole of the underground railways have been disorganised by a fire in, a tube railway on Fifty-third-street. A terrible panic…

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`Motor Fatalty. Woman Killed and Old Man Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6

A serious motor accident happened in Sydney on Saturday night, resulting in the death of a woman and serious injury to an old man Frederick Hope, 68 years of age, a gardener…

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Friendship of America. German Army Motor Order Refused

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 6

"We are now so neutral that we don't care a d—which country heats Germany!"—New definition of, "neutrality" in the war. now popular, in the United States…

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Northern Railway Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5

The "Armidale Express" says:—We have it on excellent authority that, consequent on the greatly lessened traffic caused by the influence of the war, the Railway…

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Shortage of Copper. Stripping Motor Oars. Copenhagen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5

Thousands of motor cars in Germany and Belgium have had the copper fittings removed from them for use in the gun factories…

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Motors Passing Trams. Coroner Says It's Dangerous

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 1

The fatal accident which occurred in Lane Cove-road, North Sydney, on December 26, when Eileen Elizabeth Guy, a housemaid, living at…

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