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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

279 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 14

Railway Passes. (To the Editor.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 2

Sir,—The following is one more of Mr. R. A. Price's blatant hypocritical letters. This time to the Premier, in reply to a letter intimating to…

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Successful Motor Car Firm

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 7

Most people remember when Mr. W. Sandford tranferred the Lithgow iron works to G. and C. Hoskins, Ltd. When this occurred Mr. Roy Sandford went to America…

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North Coast Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 8

Brisk work and good is being done on the section of the North Coast railway line between Macksville and Kempsey. At Lower Eungai quite a…

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Camden Haven Bridge

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 4

Work in connection with the railway bridge over the Camden Haven River at Kendall is at a standstill just now, owing to some breakage in the cylinder that is being sunk. Some necessary plant…

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Worid's Largest Bridge

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 9

The steel arch bridge over the Hell Gate in the northern part of New York city will be with its viaducte, the largest bridge in the…

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Preventing Motors From Back-firing

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 5

One of the most formidable and greatly dreaded causes of accidents in flying machines is back-fire in the carbureter. As the result of an attempt…

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Railway Meeting

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 8

FRIDAY evening in the School of Arts there assembled at the invitation of the Mayor, who presided, the most representative and enthusiastic…

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Charity Creek Bridge

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 9

Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A, has received the following:— Public Works Department, Sydney, 30th January…

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The Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 7

ON Friday a public meeting was held at Kempsey when resolutions expressing satisfaction at the progress on the fifth section of the Wauchope-Kempsey railway were carried, and requesting that…

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Train Smash

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 February 1914 · page 3

The railway traffic was considerably disorganised on Wednesday by runaway trucks crashing into a goods train on the line hear Adamstown…

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Road Making. How They Do It in England

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 February 1914 · page 6

The read system of the Old Country is heartily praised by Mr. A. A. Hunter, who returned to Sydney from London recently. It would be an…

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Railway Building. Two Miles a Day

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 11 February 1914 · page 3

Giving evidence before the Federal Royal Commission on Powellised Timber at Parliament House, Mr. Joseph Timms, railway contractor, stated that…

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North Coast Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 4

The construction of section 4 (Taree-Wauchope) of the Maitland Grafton Railway is last nearing completion says the "M.R. Times"…

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North Coast Railway

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 2

A large and influential meeting was held in Kempsey last week to urge the immediate construction of bridges preparatory to the line being extended…

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Motorists' Experience

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 6

On Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs. E. Dalley, senr., were driving towards Macksville and when on a narrow piece of road on the hill…

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Science Notes. Telegraphy From Aeroplane

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 5

Long distance wireless telegraph experiments recently made from a Breguet aeroplane to a ground station at Douai, France, showed excellent…

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The Bridge-st Sensation

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 9

The death on Tuesday, of last week, of Senior-Sergeant Macourt, of Crow's Nest, North Sydney, recalls one of the most sensational incidents in the…

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A Motor Jaunt. Council to Inspect the Roads

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 6

At the Shire meeting on Thursday afternoon, when the Estimates came on, the President said he thought the Council should inspect the roads…

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A Bandit Captured. Fired a Freight Train

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 2

American troops have captured Castilly, the bandit responsible for the Cumbre tunnel disaster. He is likely to be handed over to the Moxican…

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Taree-Kendall Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 4

A petition has been presented to the Minister for Works, through Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A., asking him to give the Camden Haven residents one train a day between Tares and Kendall, pending…

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