North Coast Railway
ANOTHER step in the important national work of providing [?] facilities for our people on the North Coast, and of linking our isolated coastal line at the Northern…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
324 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 17
Motor Mysteries
It was within an hour of midnight, and Cheltenham Road, Bristol, was almost deserted when a solitary pedestrian heard the roar…
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THE Beechwood Railway League met on Saturday last, and Mr. R. White presided. After the minutes and correspondence had been read, the chief business for which the meeting had been…
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A public meeting was held in the School of Arts, on Saturday last to arrange for the reception of the Minister for Works and the proposed…
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George Smith was kill[?]ed and five others seriously injured at a railway crossing near Geelong yesterday. The men were in a…
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THE dissatisfaction which has been existent in the ranks of the tramway men with regard to the seniority lists at the depots, is growing. The union…
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The Northern Courier nays: " While returning from Grafton to Kempsey the Revs. Father O'Regan (Port Macquarie,) and O'Connor (Kempsey),…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dramatic Rescue at a Railway Station. a Miraculous Escape
The "Daily Mail" of the 2nd December recorded the rescue by a young man of an elderly lady at Finsbury Park station. The following morning the same journal…
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Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., writes as follows;--I have had a conference with the Chairman and Secretary of the Public Works…
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A serious railway, accident occured near Melbourne. It appears Robert Thompson was driving with five employees. The annual galloped away, the vehicle being…
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MR. G. S. BRINER M.L.A. has received the following letter dated 23rd January, 1908 from the Under Secretary for Lands: --…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Run over by a Train. Jockey's Head Severed
Richard Wiles, about 45 years of age, was run over and cut to pieces by a train on the railway line between Caulfield and Malvern late on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rivers and Railways
"GOD made the country and man made the town," so Cowper tells us; and in like manner we may say, "Nature made the rivers and man made the railways." Now…
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A correspondent in our last makes a well-grounded complaint about the habit tramps and other travellers have got into of camping on the high road…
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SINCE the holidays work on the first section of the North Coast Railway, between Maitland and Dungog, has progressed in a very satisfactory…
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Mr. G. S. Brinnor, M.L.A., has received the following letter dated 23rd January, 1909, from the Under Secretary for Lands:--…
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A correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" telegraphed from New York on 7th October:-- A large Panhard touring car,…
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Heroism now is not usually set forth in such dramatic or inspiring surroundings as it was in Nero's days. But for all that it is as great…
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The contractors for the Gloucester-Three section of the North Coast Railway, Messrs. Rhys-Jones, Carter, and Company, Ltd,, lodged their security…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Science & Invention the Kaiser's Invention. Now Brake for Motor Cars
The German Emperor is said to have invented a hub brake, which, it is claimed, offers the greatest possible security against the risk of refusing…
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