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Railways, roads & transport, 1902

497 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 25

Railway Commissioners at the Bellingen

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1902 · page 3

ON Friday evening last the Railway Commissioners (Messrs. Oliver, Kirkcaldie, and Fehon), accompanied by Mr. Harper (traffic manager), arrived…

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Railway Tracks, SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1902 · page 5

THE railway authorities state that if sufficient trucks were available to meet every emergency a large portion of the rolling stock would have to be…

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A Railway Requirement

The Inverell Times · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 2

Considering the large cargoes of wheat, wool, and various ores that are loaded at Inverell station, and the possibility that when we get our gas works, butter…

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Railway Collision in Victoria

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 2

A sensational railway accident occurred at Inglewood (Victoria) on Monday, The passenger train from Bendigo to Sea Lake was stationary at…

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A Railway Ticket to Heaven

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 4

A man named James Joseph Frederick Green was found in a dying condition in George- street, Sydney, the other…

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Walcha-Port Macquario Railway

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 2

The Port Macquarie people are moving, and have forwarded a petition to the Minister for Works asking for a survey of the proposed Walcha-Port…

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New Kind of Light Railway

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 3

A NEW kind of light railway has recently been treated by Prince Khillkoff, the well-known Russian Minister for Railways. The scheme…

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Some Railway Anomalies

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 2

IT may not be generally known that our mail service from Sydney might be easily arranged to come every day VIA Moree but…

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Sentiment and Railways

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1902 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners obviously went on to the North Coast for business and business only. No rhapsodies on the beauty of the rivers, no glowing forecasts as to the…

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Chapter Xxi Tun T[?]e T[?]ram

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1902 · page 7

The [?]essity of selting all these particul[?] properly before you takes the [?]ory back is Nelly Clemance Poor girl! During th[?] days she was…

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Red Range School Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 2

MR. F. A. WRIGHT, M.P., has received the following communication from the Department of Public Distraction: -- I have the honor to state that the Minister for Public…

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Road Vote Exhausted. Contracts Cancelled

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 2

MOST [?]ensible people predicted long since that the O'Sullivan extravagance would sooner or later land this State in difficulties of a serious nature It would now seem…

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Original Correspondence. Inverell Railway. [To the Editor of the Advocate,]

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 2

SIR,—It is not often I trouble the press with copy, but I wash to complain of the way in which teamsters are put to inconvenience by reason of the lack of unloading facilities at…

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Glen Innes-Inverell Railway

The Inverell Times · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 2

The Parliamentary Public Works Committee are to be in Inverell on March 3 and 4, to toke evidence upon the proposal to extend the present line…

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Some Railway Anomalies

The Inverell Times · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 2

It may not be generally known, says the WAEIALDA STANDARD of Tuesday, that our mail service from Sydney might be easily arranged to come every day via…

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Blair Hill-Mt. Mitchell Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 2

AT the request of the Glencoe Farmers' and Settlers' Association, Mr. F. A. Wright has brought under the notice of the Minister for Public Works the bad state of the road…

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Railway Refreshments

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 2

We are pleased to see that our Inverell contemporary evokes an interest in the matter of postal arrangements between the two towns, by publishing our…

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The Western Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 2

THE member for Inverell has sent the local press the following communication: -- "Public Works Department, Bridge-street, Sydney, 18th February, 1902. Sir, -- I have…

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Return Railway Ticket

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 2

IN the appeal on Friday to the Full Court, by the railway authorities in the case in which a man was charged with selling portion of a return ticket issued at Brisbane,…

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Northern Railways and Others

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1902 · page 2

ANY person who takes the trouble to glance at the map of New South Wales is at once struck by the enormous difference in railway mileage between the Western, the…

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