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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

315 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 13 of 16

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

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 6

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

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North Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 13

On Tuesday last week tenders for the following works were opened by the Tender board of the Public Works Department—Manufacture supply and…

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North Coast Railway. Tenders Accepted for Manning District Bridges. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 2

The following tenders have been accepted for bridge work in connection with the North Coast Railway in the Manning District : —…

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Army Aeroplane Wrecked

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

While experiments were being carried out with an army aeroplane at Aldershot it fell twenty feet and was wrecked. Colonel Cody, who was on…

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North Coast Railway. Manning Bridge Tender Accepted. Tenders Invited for Third Section

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

A tender has been accepted at £14,851 for the erection of a steel bridge for the Manning River, also at £7,696 for bridges over various…

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Timber Getting by Tramline

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 3

THE Coff's Harbour Advocate says a surveying party is at present engaged in laying out a tramline for the British Australian Timber Co., into forest reserve No. 642, at…

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Terrible Railway Disaster

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 4

Forest fires destroyed a culvert, derailing a train load of fugitives from Metz., Michigan, U.S.A. The wreckage and piles of railway sleepers…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 6

[?] SALVANA, a well-known New South Wales amateur road rider, set out from Melbourne last Thursday for Sydney, with the intension of endeavouring to lower the…

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North Coast Railway. Bridge Tenders Accepted

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 13

Tenders have been accepted for the following:— Manufacture supply and delivery of a steel bridge for the Manning River,…

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An American Horror. Train Disaster in Michigan. Fugitives From Forest Fires. Wrecked and Burned to Death

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 13

A shocking railway castastrophe is reported from America. A train which was conveying fugitives from Metz, in the State of…

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The North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 7

THE following [?] have been accepted for works in connection with the North Coast Railway:— R. Tulloch, Pyrmont, the manufacture, supply,…

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North Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 10

The Government will be in a position to invite tenders for the construction of the North Coast Railway, or that portion from Gloucester to…

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North Coast Railway. Tenders for Third Section

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 7

The Government will invite tenders for the construction of the third section of the North Cotst Railway, that from Gloucester to Taree. on the 28th…

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Non-Political Railways

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 5

THURSDAY last was the anniversary of the introduction of the non-political system of controlling the railways and tramways twenty years ago…

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The North Coast Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 5

THE Sydney Morning Herald in a leading article says: "The departmental intimation that tenders for the third section of the…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 7

No more interesting cycling publication is issued in this part of the world than the Dunlop Rubber Co's. annual production of "All about Dunlop Tyres." This year's…

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The North Coast Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 4

THE Herald says:—Meetings have been held at various centres on the North Coast with the object of urging upon the Government…

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Motor Car Burnt

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 6

While Mr. H. R. Arnott was touring in a motor car in the Rydal district the car accidentally caught fire, the wind carrying a spark from a…

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Correspondence. Our North Coast Railway. To the Editor

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 6

SIR,—I hope you are giving your readers the opportunity of quietly perusing the splendid leading article which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of last…

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The North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 2

On Wednesday last the Government invited tenders for the third section of the North Coast Railway the link connecting Gloucester and Tarees also the manufacture of steel…

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