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

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

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City Railway Expansion. Electric Underground Railway Approved

Forbes Times · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 2
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

It is estimated that about 50,000 suburban railway passengers engaged in business in Sydney arrive every day between, the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.,…

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Suspension Bridge Marvels

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 2

In America there are four cuspension bridges all longer than the Menai Straits Bridge. The first is that which spans the gorge and rapids…

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Electric Railways. Melbourne's Big Scheme American Engineer Arrives

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 4

Mr. J. S. Thorp, an American electrical engineer, who has been engaged by the Victorian Government to carry out the electrification…

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City Railway Expansion. Electric Underground Railway Approved

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 7

It is estimated that about 50,000 suburban railway passengers engaged in business in Sydney arrive every day between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.,…

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Train Arrangements

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 1

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the train is timed to arrive at 10.40 a.m., depart 2.25 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, arrive 11.10 a.m.,…

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The Railway Bridge. Finished at Last

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 3

After twelve months steady work, the railway bridge across the Lachlan River, near Forbes, is an accomplished fact. This bridge will carry the…

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Forbes-Stockinbingal Railway. Bridge at Forbes Completed

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 2

After being in course of construction for some 12 months, the bridge over the Lachlau River at South Forbes, which is to form a…

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Removing Timber From Roads

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 2

Tbe Jemalong Shire Council, at its meeting on Saturday last, decided to proceed against a man named John Schaefer for cutting…

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Shire and Municipality. the South Condobolin Road

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 2

The Engineer of the Jemalong Shire Council (Mr. A. Booth) reported to the monthly meeting of that body on Saturday last that the work which the shire had…

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No Shire Motor Car

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1914 · page 2

The question of purchasing a motor car for Jemalong Shire engineer was to have been discussed at the meeting on Saturday. Owing to the…

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Express in Peril. Boy's Train-wrecking Plot

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 9

How a Leeds to London express escaped being wrecked, with probable heavy loss of life, was related before the West Riding magistrate, who ordered Charles Griffiths, a…

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"New" Jerusalem. 'Delivered' to Improvements Tram Cars and Ferroconcrete

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 9

Demolition again threatens the historic wails of Jerusalem, press reports state, although the assault this time is not to be made, by a hostile army, but by…

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City Railway Expansion. Electric Underground Railway Approved

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 July 1914 · page 10

It is estimated that about 50,009 suburban railway passengers engaged in business in Sydney arrive every day between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m…

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New Railways. Put Off for a Year Only

Western Champion · Thursday 9 July 1914 · page 15

The Premier stated on Saturday that the Minister for Works misunderstood the nature of his announcement at Cootamundra last Tuesday…

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Train Arrangements

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 1

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the train is timed to arrive at 10.40 a.m., depart 2.25 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, arrive 11.10 a.m.,…

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Wonderful Natural Bridge

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 14

A remarkable natural bridge in the Philippines, recently discovered by Mr. Paul R. Fanning, is described in the "Philippine Journal of Science."…

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Gates on Roads. Forbes Board's Decision

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 2

The Forbes Land Board on Tuesday afternoon entered a finding in connection with an application by Mr T. M. Dunn, to enclose a road in the…

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A Road Matter. T. M. Dunn's Application

Forbes Times · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 6

The Forbes Land Board on Tuesday afternoon last delivered its postponed decision in the case in which T. M. Dunn applied for…

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Railway Returns

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 July 1914 · page 11

We are indebted to Mr Evans, the Canowindra Station Master, for the following figures relative to the traffic at the Canowindra railway station for…

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