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Railways, roads & transport, 1916

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Soldiers and Railway Fares. a Newcastle Appeal

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

The town clerk of Newcastle has addressed the following letter to the State Premier, at the direction of the City Council:—…

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Unlawful Game in a Train. Railway Porter Assaulted

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 16

James Tully 35 years of age, was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with assaulting Arthur Montague Walker, a railway guard, and using improper language in a…

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Blizzard in England. Train Snowed Up. London, March 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 5

The blizzard in the Derbyshire Peak district continues. A train has been snowed up at Minninglow station for a week. Gangs endeavouring to dig it out were forces to…

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The Only Road. Casting Out Delusions. Victory by Force AlONE. Northern France

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 14

The British Army in France is now engrossed with the things that matter. All the old false friends of the first year of the war have been cast aside. Very slowly it has come to…

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Soldiers and Railway Fares

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 2

The town clerk of Newcastle has addressed the following letter to the State Premier at the direction of the City Council:—…

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Opening of a Railway Tunnel in Turkey

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 6

Undeubtedly the most important event in railroad construction in Turkey to date is the recent completion of the large tunnel on the Bagdad railroad, piercing the Amanus…

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Railway Administration. Statement by the Premier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 3

The Premier, Mr. Holman, yesterday afternoon, in the course of some remarks upon the additional leave of absence granted to Mr. Harper, the Chief Railway…

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East Greta Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 4

The directors of the East Greta Railway Company have given approval for soldiers in uniform travelling from East Greta [?] to all stations on the company's line…

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Railway Disaster. Board of Trade's Report. London, March 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 14

The Board of Trade has furnished a report in connection with the collision of trains at Saint Bedes, near Jarrow, on December 17 last. A train from South Shields,…

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Bravery Rewarded. Railwaymen Awarded War Cross. Paris, March 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 12

A Zeppelin flying over Revigny endeavoured to bomb 70 waggon-loads of munitions. The station-master and two assistants couped them to an engine, and steamed out…

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Fire on Baghdad Railway. Athens

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 13

Belated advices from Constantinople state that the Baghdad railway offices at Adna have been burned down. Incendiarism is suspected…

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Trans-australian Railway. Mr. Gilchrist to Be Transferred

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 10

It transpires that Mr. H. E. Marnie, senior assistant engineer at the Kalgoorlie end of the transcontinenta line, has also been dismissed for refusing to reinstate Mr…

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Sydney City Railway. Operations Started

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 3

The Minister for Public Works stated last week that a start has been made with the construction of the city electric railways. Mr. Cann said that M'Mahon's store in…

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Motor Car Murder. Two Accused Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 5

At the Melbourne City Court on Wednesday, two men, Leslie Taylor, aged 23, a dealer, and John Williamson, aged 42, a mechanic, were charged with having insufficient…

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Trans-australian Railway. Minister's Notification

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 8

Mr. O'Malley, Minister for Home Affairs, discounts the statement that the enginedrivers on the Kalgoorlie end of the Government railway works intend to strike,…

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City Railway. £250,000 For Resumptions

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 5

It was stated in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday by the Minister for Public Works, in reply to a question by Mr Haynes, that a sum of…

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Northern Train Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 March 1916 · page 4

Last week attention was called in those columns to the genuine grievance of Saturday evening passengers or would-be passengers to Scone, because of the non-running of the…

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Trans-australian Railway. Officers Apologise

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 March 1916 · page 3

Messrs. Darbyshire and Marnie [?] officers who were dismissed in connection with the dispute on the Kalgoorlie section of the transcontinental railway for not obeying an…

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Hydro-aeroplane. Captured by British London, March 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 5

Report from Athens state that a British cruiser captured a German hydro-aeroplane and arimen on the island of Tha[?]…

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News by Wire. Redfern Railway Fatality. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 5

The body of the man killed at Redfern railway station last night has been identified as that John Finlay, a timber merchant…

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