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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

55 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 3 of 3

A Border Railway

Delegate Argus · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 5

A VERY influential deputation waited on the Premier, Mr. Bent, last week to urge that the railway from Bairnsdale should be extended through East…

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The Victorian railway robbery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 15 October 1906 · page 2

The police are on the tracks of the two [?] man who on Thursday night bound and gagged the [?] station master at…

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Capsize of a motor car

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 2

[?] before one o'clock this morning's motor car capsized on the South Head Road, Double [?]. Three gentlemen in the car were…

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General Cables. LONDON, Saturday. Railway smash in Russia

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 2

Reuter's Agency reports that a terrible railway disaster has [?] at Oke, on the Moscow Kursk line. One hundred persons…

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Train collision at Mclong

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 October 1906 · page 2

A mixed train was shouting at Mclong last evening when it collided with the rear of the Sydney mail train, two carriages being…

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T[?] Border Railway. Mr. [?]Ent As a Lecturer. the [?] of East Gippsland

Delegate Argus · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 2

BEFORE out 2000 people at the Town Hall on Friday night, Mr. Bent gave evidence favor of the construction of a railway form Bairnadale to the…

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General Cables. LONDON, Saturday. Terrorists wreck and plunder a train

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 2

A band of Terrorists, with bombs, wrecked a train outside Rogeff, in Russia, killing and wounding many people, and…

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Electric Railways

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 19 November 1906 · page 4

The first railroad train drawn by an electric motor over standard gange tracks, with New York City as the terminal, pulled into…

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[?] to Sydney Bicycle Road Race

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 November 1906 · page 2

The big road race from Goulburn to Ashfield took place on Saturday, under the suspiecs of the League of New South Wales Wheelmen. weather made the trial one of exceptional severity. In the ran from the southern city to Sydney there are some mountain climbs, which few…

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General Cables. LONDON, Saturday. British railway monopoly alleged

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 2

Mr. Lloyd George, replying to a deputation which protested against an alleged gigantic railway monopoly in Great Britian, indicated that…

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Motor car fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 2

A motor car party of four men capoized near Emu Plains on Saturday, killing instantly Mr.Grainger, who was the driver, and fracturing…

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Wonders of the Railway World

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 4

One reads with a gasp that £100,000,000 will be required to capitalise the gigantic schemes to link Asia with America by means…

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The Border Railway

Delegate Argus · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 4

MR. ALGRRNOON COMBES, engineer in charge of the permanent survey of the proposed national line to the border, returned to Bruthen on Saturday. He…

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Heavy railway traffic

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 December 1906 · page 2

Enormous quantities of wool and when are arriving in Sydney for shipment. The goods railway authorities are kept extremely…

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The Railway Commissioners

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1906 · page 3

The appointments of Railway Commissioners for New South Wales are not yet officially [?] It is stated that the…

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