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Railways, roads & transport, 1920

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Aeroplane Crashes Sensation on Albury Show Grounds How a Decayed Fence Averted an Awful Smash

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Hark! an aeroplane! High up over eastern Albury at noon yesterday people saw an aeroplane. So high was it that it appeared little larger…

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Original Correspondence. the Up-river Road. (The Editor "The Riverine Grazier")

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Sir,—I have awaited with some anxiety as to when the matter, brought before the Shire Council some time ago by Councillor Austin, referring to…

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Four Main Railways Idle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 3

Ireland's four main railways are now paralysed and it is feared that food will run short. There is a shortage in the large cities, and a general stoppage of…

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Junee Railway Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 4

Representatives of the unemployed men who have been discharged from Junee railway works after going on strike, went to the Premier's office, in Sydney on…

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The Proposed Hay-deniliquin Railway

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

THE greatest difficulty the deputation, from the Hay and Deniliquin Municipal Councils, and the interested Shire Coucils, will have to…

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Three British Officers Captured. One Seriously Wounded. A Brigadier-General Missing. The Railway Difficulty. General Stoppage Now Certain

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Sinn Feiners have captured Brigadier-General Lucas and two officers The officers subsequently returned to Fermoy, but the whereabouts of…

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Railway Strike at Junee

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 3

The large number of men employed on the railway remodelling works at Junee, struck about 11 a.m. on Tuesday. It appears that the foreman of…

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Railway Truck Bungle

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 1

Mr. C. Miscamble, Victorian Railway Commissioner, who returned on Friday to Melbourne from a tour of the northern parts of Victoria, stated…

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"The Road to Love" Chapter Xi. (Continued.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 1

The days following on this visit of Varley were none too happy for Ellen. Lady Norchester seemed to have adopted a curiously resentful attitude towards the…

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Railway Washaways Express Trains Delayed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 2

Washaways at various points between Harden and Cootamundra caused three divisions of the Melbourne express to be delayed from four to five hours List night…

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More Railway Bungling. Sheep for Balranald Sent to Ballarat

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 1

Another extraordinary case of Rail way department bungling has been reported in Ballarat. Five hundred sheep arrived at the goods shed…

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Aeroplane Mishap

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 28

On Monday morning at about 11.380 the mayor, Ald. Waugh, received a telegram apprising him of the arrival of a Larkin-Sopwith aeroplane at about noon, and…

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Main Roads Needs

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 22

A general meeting of the National Roads Board was held in Sydney this week, and a policy was adopted. It includes the immediate establishment of a Main Roads…

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Train Services Dislocated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 20

Railway difficulties in Ireland are developing with alarming rapidity. Wide areas in the south are without trains, and Dublin is threatened with the cutting…

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Scrap Book. Roads and Bridges

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 13

Where the gull and gannet hover And the sea shines, mirror-bright, Though the heart of man discover Charm to soothe him, song and sight…

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Railways in Britain

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 45

It is announced that the British Ministry intends to release the railway systems from control, returning them to their private owners, to whom new groupings will…

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Tumbarumba Railway.. Reserve

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 1

According to the Government Gazetta of Friday, June 25, the Government have acquired plece of land situated in the parish of…

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The Floods in the North-west. Railway Traffic Interrupted. Rescue Party at Work in East Orange. SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 3

Reports received by the Railway Department show that heavy rains are seriously hampering the working of traffic on various lines…

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Railway Strike Continues. Trains Held Up

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 2

The Irish railway strike continues. A train was held up near Mullinger Station, and a cargo of petrol destroyed…

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Railway Washaway. Trains Considerably Delayed. Loss of Stock Reported

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1920 · page 3

As the result of a heavy thunderstorm over the Cootamundra district about midnight on Monday, a washaway occurred on the main southern…

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