North Coast Railway. First Two Trains. From Maitland to Dungog. Preparations for Monday's Opening
The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 4
Officials from the Railway Department were busily occupied on Friday making arrangements on the first section of the North Coast…
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Nambucca News · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 3
Trouble and delay has marked the progress of the road under construction at Newey Creek. The engineer while in Sydney a few days ago,…
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Nambucca News · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 4
The closing scenes in connection with the construction of the first section of the North Coast railway, from Maitland to Dungog, so far as the…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 6
A large crowd assembled at the aviation field in Budapesth to await the arrival of Lieutenant Bier, who is competing for the Zeit prize…
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The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 2
An Inventor in Philadelphia has been experimenting with wind motors of a peculiar type. As shown in the drawing, the motor consists of a…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 14
All along the line in the vicinity of the Dungog station was noticed on Monday a tremendous number of railway sleepers, some 300,000, it…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 9
Lack of precaution in the use of poison by the Railway Department has resulted in the death of a swagman. Two men travelling along the…
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The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 2
"All things come to those who wait," had its exemplification at Dungog on Monday. For 30 years residents of the picturesquely-situated town of Dungog have been pushing…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 5
The railway managers after interviewing Mr. S. Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, decided not to meet the Board of Trade officials…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 5
The express was held up in South Wales for ten hours. Two signal boxes in Monmouthshire were fired and thirty-seven miles of sidings at…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 3
In conversation with Mr. M. Thomson, stationmaster alt West Maitland, it was learned that traffic on the North Coast Railway—Maitland…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 5
The West of England is isolated from the Midland. The railway services at Fishguard. Swansea, and many industrial centres…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Strike In England. the Railway Men. Ominous Military Preparations. an Army in London. London, Aug. 18
The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 5
After the abortive Board of Trade-conference the Railway Unions' executives met the Parliamfetntry Committee of the Trades Union Congress…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 4
Had it not been for that disastrous landslip at the Spout, the completion of the third section of the North Coast railway would now have been…
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The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 2
What might have proved a very serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, at the railway crossing on the Dingo road. The contractors' small…
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The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 4
It is reported that Mr. R A. Bell, Managing Director of the North Coast Coy., simply met, in the vicinity of Croki, with an accident that gave him…
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Nambucca News · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 4
Sir,--With reference to your report of the Newey Creek road and the dairy factory site, the motion as stated by you as being carried is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Touch of Genius. Complete Short Story. a Hero in Tramp's Attire
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 7
"Hello, 'bo!" "Hello, there, "brakey!" "What are yer doin' in there?" A face, dirty, unshaven, and…
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The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 9
A remarkable escape from injury was experienced by three men, Baxter, Habberly, and Gillicei, while sleeping on a motor launch used for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Paying From the Start. Maitland-dungog Railway. Remarkable Differences in Freight
The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 15
The first week's traffic on the Mainland to Dungog section of the North Coast railway has proved very satisfactory, and there is every…
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