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

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

489 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 25

Goat, Dog, and Motor Nuisances

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

A number of ever-present nuisances were before the meeting of the local Municipal Council on Tuesday night. On the motion of Alderman…

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Railway Commissioners' Visit

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners will be at Forbes on Tuesday next and will make a halt at the Red Bend Siding at 9.35 a.m. presumbably to…

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Railways

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 1

During the past month I have inspected two proposed crossings on the new Canowindra-Eugowra railway with the engineer in charge of…

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Forbes-eugowra Railway Extension

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 2

The Forbes Railway League has requested Mr. F. Fell, who lately owned the Forbes "Times," to obtain information in support of a railway from…

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Train Time-table

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 2

The ordinary railway time-table for the winter is just now under revision, and an altered running of trains will come into effect on…

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Road Resumption at Wamboyne

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 4

A matter of some importance to Wamboyne residents, that of a proposed road resumption through Neideck's from Wamboyne to Girral, has…

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Railway Commissioners

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners arrived at Forbes to-day on their annual tour of inspection. The Chief Commissioner was approached, on…

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Stock on the Railway Line

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 1

At daylight on Thursday morning a goods train coming in from the south-west to Junee, ran over a horse near the railway crossing, on the old…

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Railway Requirements. the Commissioners at Parkes Financial Lion in the Rath

Western Champion · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 7

The Railway Commissioners, Messrs Fraser (chief), Cann and Fox, who left Sydney at 4.25 on Monday afternoon arrived in Parkes at 7:30 on…

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Railway Matters

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 5

The improvements promised the deputation when they waited on the Commissioners during their last annual visit, is now under course of…

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Railway Commissioners Official Visit to Forbes. Trucking Yards at the Red Bend

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners paid an official visit to Forbes on Tuesday morning, arriving by special train at about nine o'clock. They were…

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Browning in "Asolando" showod how a septuagenarian can experience the emotions more conventionally expected of adolescence. Thomas Hardy shows in the London Mercury (January) that he is in the true line of succession with his great predecessor: a Glimpse From the Train

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 22 May 1920 · page 4

At nine in the morning there passed a church, At ten there passed me by the sea, At twelve a town of smoke and smirch, At two a forest of oak and birch,…

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Local Railway Station Items of News

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1920 · page 2

THE wheat remaining in the grain sheds is to be distributed to farmers all over the State for seed wheat, men having been…

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Forbes Railway League the Eugowea-forbes Connection. Question of Submission to Public Works Committee

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 4

A meeting of the Forbes Railway League was held in the Council Chambers on Saturday afternoon, the Mayor (Alderman Facey) presiding…

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MR G. T. Weaver Eulogistic References. At Show Society and Railway League Meetings

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 2

At the meeting of the Forbes P. A. and H. Association on Saturday last, a letter was read from Mr G. T. Weaver, tendering his resignation from…

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Railway Water Supply

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 6

Mr. Fullwood, an officer from the Railway Commissioners' Department visited Tenmork on Monday and conferred with the Counc[?]re the…

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Aeroplane Landing Site

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1920 · page 13

The following report by Lieut. Kindred on the aeroplane landing site selected by the Parkes Council has been forwarded by the Defence…

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Mails and Train

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 2

Starting from yesterday, the outward mails carried by the train, close at Forbes post office at three o'clock in the afternoon. From now on the…

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Alteration of Train Times

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 4

The Postmaster, Mr. A. E. Parker, notifies us that the following alterations have been made to comply with the winter time table, starting from…

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Railway Fatality. Tram Driver Killed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 4

Richard Poe, a tramdriver, residing at Penshurst, attempted to board a moving train at the Central Station last night…

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