From "Hansard." Railway to Jervis Bay
MR. MORTON: I wish to ask the Secretary for Public Works what progress he is making in the matter of the extension of the South Coast railway to Jervis Bay?…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
100 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 5 of 5
Road Race
Cyclists will be interested in learning that Mr. E. W. Fieldhouse has organised a road race from Corrimal to Wollongong. As a novel way of giving the sport a fillip,…
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On Monday next special trains will leave Nowra for Sydney at 3.50 p.m. and 4.40 p.m., by which passengers can reach Wollongong from the south at 5.85…
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A road race, organised by the popular Dapto Bicycle Club, eventuated on Saturday last, the course being from Rankin's Hotel to Kembla Grange and back, the…
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At the miners delegate meeting on Wednesday it was decided to request the local members of Parliament to endeavour to get the Coal Mines Regulation Act amended to…
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[?] which [?] to the [?] about the system of [?] to the States. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Penny Wise, Pound Foolish." Railway Matter
The vagaries of the Railway Department concerning some matters are almost proverbial. One the lighting question they almost out do the Wollongong Borough…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BURGLARS! Oxford Railway Station. Raid on the Safe. Blown Up with Dynamite. the Affair Shrouded in Mystery
Quite a sensation was caused at Offord on Sunday morning when its became known that the Otford Railway Station had been forcibly entered during the ear;y hours of…
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[?] of [?] the well Rn[?]…
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"Sergeant, you will is in command of the train. I shall be on the verandah of the farm over there if anything unforward happens, turn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Railway Invention. an Improved "Dobbin."
Mr. William Smith, the Permanent Way Inspectorlon the Illwarra line, has perfected a new invention in the way of an improved Dobbin. In the course of his…
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The Railway Commissioner made a quiet inspectorial cisit os inspection along the Illwarra line on Wednesday. They went as far as Bomaderry on Tuesday evening and…
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AT Thursday's meeting of the Kiama Council, The Mayor reported that six of the Aldermen had inspected the new road of…
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The number of nominations received by Mr. Vining for the "Evans" Road Race, to be held next Saturday (miners' pay-day) at 3.30 p m., is a record, no less than thirty…
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A few weeks ago the Baker Electric Motor Vehicle Company turned out a new and peculiarly-shaped machine, destined to "cut" all…
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The above road race took place on Saturday afternoon when twenty riders started. A photograph of the riders mounted was taken just previous to getting the limit man…
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The Cape-to-Catro Railway has been surveyed as far as the Zambeal, where a great steel bridge having are span of 500ft., will carry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On a Tramp Steamboat
I once made a voyage from Sicily in a vessel that turned out to have a cargo of bones, got how or whence, who can tell I Everything looked charming, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Duplication. Between Bulli and Dapto
On Friday night considerable discussion of a general character took place in the Assembly on an item of £600,000 on the loan estimates for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bellambi Cokeworks and Railway Rolling Stock
Mr. Archibald Campbell referred to the Bellambi cokeworks in the course of the debate in the Legislative Assembly on the railway item of £600,000 on the Loan…
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