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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1911

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Hiking a Motor-car the London Practice

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 26 July 1911 · page 2

For the man who cannot afford the ownership of a car, and does not wish to buy one, there is the alternative of hiring. Hiring a car is quite a simple…

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Deadly Motor Race Driver Hurled Out at Top Speed. Many Cars Overturned. One Killed: Four Injured

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 26 July 1911 · page 2

From New York, on 9th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:- The automobile race for the…

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Motor Dust and Growing Crops

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 26 July 1911 · page 3

The British farmer has raised an objection to motor cars. At a largely-attended meeting of farmers, recently held at Lancaster, England, men who farmed…

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Road Making Plant. Wollondilly Shire

Camden News · Thursday 27 July 1911 · page 3

Cr. E. Reilly reported at the last shire meeting:—I think it in keeping with the shine business to give a short account of the resent of my observation on the…

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Electric Tramway Fire. Ladies' Dresses Alight on a Burning Vehicle

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 2 August 1911 · page 2

An alarming accident, disclosing the possibility of danger from a hitherto unsuspected source, occurred on Saturday evening, July 9th, on the electric…

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Seen in a Train Alleged Railway Outrage. a Dramatic Disclosure

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 3

A sensational story of outrage on the London and South Western Railway told at Westminster ended, after the dramatic evidence of a…

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Various Verses. Horatius at Bridge

The Picton Post · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 7

Lar Poraena of Clusium By the Grand Slain be swore That he and haughty Tarquin Could make the best bridge sore…

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A Railway - Innovation

The Picton Post · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 3

Birmingham has introduced a hew system for the printing and issuing of railway tickets. ? The booking clerk, when requiring to…

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A Good Game Played with Tram Tickets

The Picton Post · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 7

Tram ticket which have been used play be made to afford the means -of whiling; away en hour [?] in the long winter evening. With some variation from…

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Geology of the Northern Railway. Section—Armidale to Glen Innes

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 3

IN order to obtain a true perspective of the features of geological interest to be seen from the train between Armidale and Glen Innes, It is necessary to have…

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A Bad Road

The Picton Post · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 4

The Nattai ,Junction-road, constructed about four years ago at a cost of say, £2000, and which leads to the homes of settlers on the…

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Local Railway Returns

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 4

We cull the following particulars as to the earnings of local stations from the annual report of the Commissioner for Railways:—…

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Revivalism by Motor General Booth's Tour

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 3

At midnight on August 8th General Booth, the founder and leader of the Salvation Army, left Paddington for Penzance. where he will start on a…

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Tramway Lottery

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 September 1911 · page 3

Tickets issued by the City of Mexico Electric Tramways Company are valuable. At one time the company was defrauded by employee, despite…

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Fireside Fancies. the Great Bridge Over the Zambesi

The Picton Post · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

A complete description of the magnificent bridge erected by British engineers over the Zambesi is given in "Engineering." This bridge has a main span of…

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Stories of London the Underground Railway

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

The Underground is not so much to be seen as smelt and tasted. It is not a railway at all as we know railways with embankments, air, and telegraph poles. Nor,…

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Revivalism by Motor. General Booth's Tour

The Picton Post · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 7

At midnight on August 8th General Booth, the founder and leader of the salvation Army, left Paddingion for Penzance, where he will start on a…

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A Motor-car for £70 Prospects of a Cheap "Runabout."

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 2

The "man of moderate means" will be sorry to hear that for him the prospect of possessing a reliable motor-car Is as yet a very faint one…

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Railway Carriages with Ball-bearing Wheels

The Picton Post · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 3

Recent tests of ball-bearing wheels on German railway carriages are said to have been entirely successful. Two concentric rings with three grooves…

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The Tramp Printer

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 2

The following from the pen of W. 15. Vincent recently appeared in the columns of the Canadian Press:- Hero in this now country, which may…

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