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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 7

J. F. Carson's tender, at schedule rates, has been accepted for the first section of the North Coast railway, from Maitland to Dangog. Mr. Winslon Churchill has been defeated…

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North Coast Railway. Tenders for First Section Accepted. Sydney

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 4

J. F. Carson's tender, at schedule rates, has been accepted for the first section of the North Coast railway…

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Electro Motors

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 8

Messrs. Electromotors, Ltd., of Man. Chester, are now one of the leading firms of electrical engineers engaged in the manufacture and installation of electrical machinery…

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Correspondence. We are in no way identified with the opinions expressed by Correspondents. the Railway and Our Member. to the Editor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 7

Dear Sir,--I read your interview with our member, Mr. R. A. Price, in to-day's CHRONICLE, regarding the railway, but I consider it a lot of bluff, as in my humble…

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The North Coast Railway Tender Accepted

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 6 May 1908 · page 2

The North Coast Railway—toe main line from West, Maitland to to South Grafton—is now assuming definite shape, inasmuch at, a tender…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 5

All extraordinary scone war witnessed on one of the paris racing tracks when Jacqnclin was disqualified by the judges after con'esting a semi-final of the race for…

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North Coast Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 4

THE Telegraph of Saturday last has the following, anent the North Coast railway:— The first section to be made the…

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The Transcontinental Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 7

The survey of the trans-continental railway will be commenced at the end of this month or early in June…

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The Murrurundi Railway Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 7

Although the report on the Murrurundi railway accident has been completed it is not to be given to the public for a day or two. It must…

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Awful Tram Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 May 1908 · page 7

An electric tram car, while descending a hill at Bournemouth, England got out of control, and was precipitated over an embankment twenty…

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The Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

THE decision of the Works Department to accept Messrs Carson & Co.'s tender for the first section of the North Coast Railway will be welcome news to our numerous…

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North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2
Also in The Gloucester Advocate, The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer

THE North Coast Railways the main line from West Maitland to South Grafton—is now assuming definite shape in as much as a tender has been accepted for the construction…

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Debts and Motor Rides. Extravagant Clerk's Suicide in a London Bank

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

Because he found life insupportable on £50 a month, Carl Schoenwald, a bank clerk, shot himself, Schoenwald was employed at the offices of Messrs…

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The Snowdon Railway

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

The construction of the Snowdon Railway has been commenced. The line is to be of the rack-and-pinion type, as followed in the more recent Swiss mountain railways. The…

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'Motor Keely.'

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 9

Mr. J. W. Keely, of 'Keely Motor' fame, has been brought prominently before the British public of late through the writings of Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, who will, we…

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Railway Horror Recalled

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 5

The Tay Bridge disaster of December 28, 1879, is recalled by the retirement, alter 50 years' service, of Mr. James Roberts, locomotive…

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Correspondence. [?] are in no way [?]fied with the [?] by Correspondents the North Coast Railway. " Work Not Talk." to the Suitor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 6

Dear Sir,—I invariably decline to notice anonymous correspondents, but a letter appears in a recent issue of your paper intimating that the movements in connection…

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North Mast Railway. Start at West Maitland

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 2

Messrs. Carson and Simpson, the contractors for the first section of the North Coast railway from Maitland to Dungog, were in West Maitland on…

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