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Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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Runaway Tramcar. Seven Passengers Killed. London, May 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 43

Serious loss of life and injury to passengers has occurred in a sensational electric tram accident at Bournemouth, the well-known watering-place on the Hampshire…

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Big Motor-race. Twenty Thousand Miles. Some of the Difficulties

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 2

In connection with the motor race from New York to Paris, Mr Robert L. Jefferson, F.R.G.S., an experienced motorist, well acquainted with Siberia,…

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Whitfield to Wangaratta Train Mishap

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

A slight mishap occurred on Thursday morning on the narrow-gange line from Whitfiled to Wangaratta. When within a mile and a half of the Wangaratta station…

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Train and Coach Collide. Two People Killed. Several Others Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

An accident, resulting in one man being killed and several persons injured, took place on Thursday, on the point…

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How a Motor Driver Lost His Passengers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

Two Indies who were motoring in a car at Ballarat, alighted and proceeded to the library on Thursday afternoon while the cha[?] was procuring a supply of…

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Braybrook Railway Accident Sufferer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 5

Mrs. [?], one of the passengers injured in the Sunshine railway accident was able to leave the Alfred Hospital for her home at Malvern this afternoon…

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The Murrurundi Railway Accident. Claims for Compensation. a Total of [?],500 Demanded. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 5

[?] for compensation on account of Injuries received in the railway [?] at Murrundi on Good Friday are now being lodged. It is…

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A New Armoured Motor Car

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 2

A recent , invention of Mr. Frederick R. Simms, for use in time of war. In general appearance the car may be described as a “mobile conning…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Saturday. Railway Receipts

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 11 May 1908 · page 3

The railway receipts for the nine days ending April 30 amounted to £88,255, being a decrease of £6683 on the total received during the…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday Man Cut to Pieces by a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 3

A shocking railway fatality occurred at (?) on Saturday night last. At about one o'clock on Sunday montain the dead body of a man,…

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Braybrook Railway Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 12 May 1908 · page 3

To-day's development in connection with the railway disanter at Braybrook Junction on Easter Monday was the ompannelling of the jury of citizens, who rader the…

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Train and Coach. a Terrible Collision

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 19

A sensational accident, resulting in one man being killed and several persons injured, took place at Bellambi, on the South Coast, on 7th inst., at the point where the…

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Children's Page. For Young Australians Who Road "The Banner."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 12

My letters are grand this week—a number of clever ones from old friends and some equally good ones from promising new arrivals. My old favorite Clare O'Brien, whose…

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The Victorian Railway Disaster. Work of Investigation. a Selected Jury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 28

The second stage of the grim tragedy enacted at Sunshine on Easter Monday night, when the Bendigo express train dashed into the Ballarat train, and killed 44 passengers and…

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The Tide of Events. The Blue Ribbon of Motoring

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 1

What the America's Cup is on the water the Bennett Cup is likely to become on the land. This is the Cup which was raced for recently, by motor cars, in Ireland. The…

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Lookhart-clear Hills Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 6

A surveyor arrived at Lockhart on Thursday to commence the survey of the new railway from Lockhart to Clear Hills. The proposed line will be…

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Peak Hill to Parkes Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 5

Mr. C. A. Lee, Minister for Public Works, while on rente to Condobolin and Broken Hill, was interviewed at Parkes to-day with reference to the…

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Rough Motoring Experiences

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 2

Mr. H. B. James, a well-known Melbourne motorist, who loft Cooma on Thursday morning in a motor car with three indies (the Misses Hood, Wood, and…

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Killed by a Motor Car

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3

A young man, whose name has not yet been [?] was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of College and Oxford-streets at five…

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London Motor Husmen in Dualin. Hush Cardrivers Antagonistic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3

Trouble has arisen in Dahlia between the local cardrivers and the employes of the Motor Bus Company, which recently commenced operations in the Irish capital…

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