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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1909

324 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 10 of 17

Terrible Explosion. at a German Cycle Race Two Motors in Flames. Four Killed, 32 INJURED

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1909 · page 13

During a long distance bicycle race, in the old Botanic Gardens at Berlin, two motor cycles, which were acting as pacemakers, collided and exploded…

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Child's Marvellous Escape Ordeal of a Railway Signal Man

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1909 · page 13

A signalman named Lines, employed in the signal-box near Sohum station, on the Great Eastern railway, under went an ordeal lately that was…

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North Coast Railway. Progress of the Survey

Macleay Argus · Saturday 24 July 1909 · page 6

MR . TOMS and party, who started surveying from Kempsey south have reached the Wilson River and the line is finally pegged out to that…

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Wreck of a Train

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 6

The western mail timed to leave Roma at 6.30 a.m. met with a terrible fate 175 miles from Brisbane. After passing Warm the train was speeding…

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The Dorrigo Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 4

The Public Works Committee last week elicited from the Department of Lands that there arc 87,000 acres of untenanted Crown lands within the…

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North Coast Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 4

The tenders which were opened last month for the second section of the North Coast railway from Dungog to Gloucester, have not yet been finally…

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Railway Accident

Nambucca News · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 4

A passenger train was derailed near Macalister, Queensland, on Saturday, and two passengers were killed and fourteen Injured. The train was crossing a bridge,…

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Railway Train Wrecked. Two Passengers Killed. Brisbane

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 14

Information has been received that the mail train, timed to leave Brisbane at half-past six this morning, met with a terrible accident…

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North Coast Railway

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 13

The tenders which opened last month for the second section of the North Coast railway from Dungog to Gloucester, have not yet been finally…

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The Railway Works

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 10

The contractors have now made a fairly good show with the work since starting on the Lower Barrington about a fortnight ago. Labor has been…

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Compressed Air As Power for Motor Cars

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 4

One of the most novel motor cars yet built is equipped with a system of compressed air transmission. Mr. Frank Lister is the engineer on whose…

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Railway Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 11

The couplings of a goods and passenger train broke down near Morgan (South Australia) last night. The back portion of the train crashed…

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T0orooka. Bridge

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 4

FRIDAY last will probably long beremembered by residents of Toorooka as the day on which they saw a satisfactory consummation of many years…

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The State Railways

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 3

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.— The annual report of tho Railway Commissioner shows a surplus of £468,000 on the working of the railways and…

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Railway Extensions

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 5

The Farmers and Settlers Conference, at the conclusion of the general business, adopted the following special motion:— "That this Conference…

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North Coast Railway

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 6

In the House, last week, the Minister for Works gave an affirmative reply to a series of questions asked by Mr. Briner in reference to the Grafton…

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Bridge at Laverty's Crossing. to the Editor

Nambucca News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 5

SIR,--Re your report of Shire Councl meeting, I notice Cr. H. Lane is reported to have said that everyone in this district was in favor of the bridge over Taylor's…

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North Coast Railway

Nambucca News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 4

In connection with a resolution passed some time ago in respect to the survey of the suggested deviation to Bowraville, Mr. W. D. Hodge, the Secretary of the…

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Civic Powers and Duties. Road Making

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 6

IN the absence of legal subjects for discussion at the present juncture, an excursion into the political field of municipal services may not be…

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Opening the Toorooka Bridge. a Most Successful Function

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 3

THE date Friday, July 30th, 1909, will no doubt be marked with a white stone by the residents of the Upper Macleay. Those who know the district can…

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