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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

418 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 21

Great Tramway Traffic. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

HALF a million people travelled on the trams yesterday, and the fares amounted to £3000, exclusive of the North Shore service…

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A Railway Ticket Problem

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 3

The "New York Tribune" relates an amusing story. A man 21 years old who was travelling recently on a Santa…

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A Railway Request

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

A deputation was introduced to the Railway Commissioners on Thursday by Mr. Watson and others, who represented that in the districts they…

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Walt Until the Train Stops

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

There is a good deal said in censure of the custom of jumping on and off railway carriages when in motion. It is righteous condemnation but is not…

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A Row in a Train

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 4

The Moree NEWS gives the following account of the brutal ill-treatment of a man travelling in an arcuision train, from Moree to Narrabri, by a gang of ruffians:—"A member aboard…

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Guarding the Railways

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 5

General Brabant is organising a flying column to operate between the eastern and western railway systems in Cape Colony…

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The Queen's Railway Car

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 7

The railway car in which the Queen and her suite travels from Scotland resembles a very luxurious flat on wheels. It is on the most perfeotly…

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Crushed by a Train. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

JAMES ADAMS, a carpenter, attempted to board a moving train at Croydon this morning and fell between a carriage and the platform. The wheels…

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Tramway Traffic. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

THE number of fares collected during Commonwealth week is now stated to have been over 3,000,000. The work done by the railway and…

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Another Tram Accident. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

ARTRUR READY, a visitor from Tamworth, was knocked down last night by an electric tram, and his skull was fractured…

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The Train and Tram Service

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 3

On the morning of Commonwealth Day the railways before twelve o'clock brought between forty-five and fifty thousand persons into the city. And…

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Railway Destruction. London, Saturday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 5

BOER invaders on the midland railway in Cape Colony have broken the line in various places, after which some returned north, while the others are…

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A Federal Railway Scheme

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1901 · page 5

Sir John Forrest says that railway connection with South Australia and West Australia must be part of the Federal Government policy…

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Adelaide. Tram Fiend

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 3

Mr. J. Blatckford, accountant in the Bank of Adelaide, whilst riding a bicycle ran into a tram, which passed over him and his left leg and right arm were smashed to a pulp,…

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Murder in a Train. a Plucky Woman. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 3

A terrible tragedy occurred in a train on the London and South-Western line yesterday. Just as the train had left Surbiton, one of the…

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Murder in & Train

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

A terrible tragedy occurred in a train on the London and South-Western line. Just as the train had left Surbition, one of the passengers,…

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Bad Roads

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 2

COMPLAINTS have been made to us regarding that state of several roads in the Red Range vicinity, especially the one leading from Mr. Ballards' to- wards Sheep Station Creek, near the Bismuth…

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That Road Expenditure

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 4

COMPLAINTS as to the condition of the roads throughout the country districts are frequent and emphatic. On all sides the people in the bush are…

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Railway Revenue. a Record Increase. Sydney, Thursday, Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 2

FOR the quarter ending December 31st 1900, the railway revenue amounted to L1, 052,399, as against L925,284 for the corresponding quarter the previous year…

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