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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

274 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 14

Motor Racing

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 2

Visitors to the Wyalong Bicycle Sports on Easter Monday are promised something sensational in the way of motor racing. Mr Saunders,…

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New Railways

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 2
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The Cabinet sat several hours on Friday afternoon, and gave consideration to the information furnished by the public Works Department as to the amount of money…

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The Face at the Window. Peeping on a Train Results in Death

The Peak Hill Express · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 4

While travelling in a train from Lower Edmonton, on the Great Eastern Railway, a woman named Maggie Murphy suddenly started up and exclaimed to…

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From All Sources. Solar Motor Pumps

Western Champion · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 6

A company has been formed in America, of Boston, New York, and London capitalists, for the manufacture and installation of solar motors…

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Great Motor Feats. The Struggle Between the Automobile and Locomotive

Western Champion · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 16

For the Briton a struggle for supremacy of any kind has always a strong fascination, and when the struggle is in the arena of sport it is almost…

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Our Open Column. Canowindra Railway. (To the Editor.)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 3

SIR,—The Government has decided to complete to a finish a number of railways, but it is particularly noticeable that in each case the district or electorate to be…

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Messrs. John Bridge and Co. Limited

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 1

For Thursday's sales we sub milted a catalogue of 203 bales, comprising lambs’ wool principally, and a few lines of Queensland scoureds…

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How Woolgrowers are Treated in Sydney. the "John Bridge" Picnic

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 4

THE great Sydney event of the Royal Agricultural Society's Show has taken place, and been a splendid success, far surpassing all…

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The Railways

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 7

Tuesday evening's rain was responsible for another breakage on the Condobolin-Bogan Gate railway line, on the scene of the one a fortnight ago…

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Over an Embankment. Express Train Falls. Only One Death

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 4

While running at the rate of a mile a minute an Eric Ramoad train carrying 150 passengers,— including many New York professional and…

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Railway Matters

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 11

The secretary of the Peak Hill Railway League is in receipt of the following communication from Mr A. C. C. Hinder, hon secretary of the league at…

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Conveyance of the Sick and Diseased by Train

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 2

The subject to which we are about to refer is deserving of more than mere passing notice, and should engage the attention of Municipal Councils and…

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Cargo-road Bam

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 2

In response to instructions from his Department. Mr. J. Mollison, Read Engineer, Orange, visited Canowindra on Tuesday last with the object of…

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Are Street Railways Doomed?

Western Champion · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 9

The doom of the street-car has been pronounced by an authority who, altho unnamed, is described in "The Manufacturers' Record, of…

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Police Court. Wednesday, May 3, 1905. Before the Police Magistrate. Railway Case

Western Champion · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 18

William Carroll proceeded against Joseph E. Rawsthorne on a charge of having travelled from Condobolin to Parkes in a railway carriage, without…

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Accideat to the Wya long Train. Sensation at Temora

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

Considerable excitement we caused just outside Temora on Thursday by the engine belonging to the Wyalong mail train becoming…

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Trundle Railway

Western Champion · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 12

The following letter, received by Mr A J Kelly, M L A, from, the Treasury, has been handed to us for publication. —Sydney, 16th May, 1905. Sir,—…

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Road Race

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 2

The handicap road race, which takes place to-day (Wednesday) promises to pass off successfully, as a record entry has been received. This…

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New Railway Lines

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 2

It is, as far as can be ascertained he desire of the Government to contruct by piecework the four short railway lines, viz, from Bogan Gate…

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