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Railways, roads & transport, 1902

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Sherlock Holmes, Jr., and the Man Who Met the Train

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 26 February 1902 · page 3

"Ah!" Slid Sherlock Holmes, Jr., drawing the exclamation out with lingering satisfaction. "it is as I suspected at the first." He had just picked up a railway…

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Glen Innes-inverall Railway

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 February 1902 · page 4

The Works Committee took some sensational evidence Yesterday in connection with the Glen Innes-Inverell railway…

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Glen Innes-Inverell Railway

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 February 1902 · page 4

ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the Parliamentary Public Works Committee to sit at Inverell on March 3 and 4, and take evidence upon the…

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Record Bridge-building

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 3

The Patent Shaft and Axle-Tree Company has achieved a most meritorious success in bridge-building, the case being almost exactly the converse of…

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The Tent Hill Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 2

RECENTLY Mr. T. Chandler, Emmaville, drew the attention of the Roods Engineer at Glen Innes to the necessity of repairing the double gates on the Tent Hill road. Mr…

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Tenterfield to Casino. Proposed Line of Railway

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 2

ON Tuesday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, opened a new inquiry, the subject under consideration being the expediency of constructing a…

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Burglars on Motor Cars

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 2

ENTERPRISING burglars go with the times. The bicycling housebreaker is already out-dated in Paris by more modern colleagues who move about in…

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The Railway Servants. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

IN the House of Commons the Government were defeated on a motion relative to the comber of hours worked by the railway servants…

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Railway Question

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 2

As the time approaches for finality with regard to the route the western-coastal rail[?] [?]way shall take from Inverell, keen interest begins to…

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Railway League

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 3

A MEETING of the Glen Innes Railway League was held in the Town Hall library on Monday evening. The Mayor presided, and Messrs. W. Hodges, J. Priest, and H…

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Day-Train to Armidale

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 4

At a recent meeting of the Armidale Chamber of Commerce, a comnunication) was read from the Railway Department in reponse to a letter…

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District News Walcha Road

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 3

Forty men are working just now at Walcha Road, erecting drafting yards, putting in five new lines for use of stock trucks, and making other…

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Local and General News. Inverell-Glen Innes Railway

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 2

IT is announced that the Public Works Committee will visit Inverell next week for the purpose of taking evidence in connection with the above project…

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New Railway By-Laws

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners have issued new by[?]laws. One reads : Any passenger persisting in entering a carriage or coompart…

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Lamb's Valley Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1902 · page 2

AGAIN we have to draw attention to an urgent need at Lambs Valley namely, the improvement of the road branching off the Bear Hill road at Marden's and extending…

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Tenterfield-Casino Railway. Visit of Public Works, Committee

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1902 · page 2

ON Thursday next, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works will visit Tenterfield for the purpose of taking evidence respecting the expedience…

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The Tableland Railway. Guyra to Coffs Harbor

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 March 1902 · page 3

Appended is the report of Surveyor Kennedy in regard to the Guyra line: —Leaving the northern railway about 1¾ miles beyond Guyra, at 288 miles…

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The Railway Traffic

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 March 1902 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners are not satisfied with the financial results of the railway traffic, which has diminished by various adverse…

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Inverell-Glen Innes Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1902 · page 2

DURING the week the Public Works Committee was over in Inverell taking evidence on the proposed line from that town to Glen Innes. Several gentlemen (who, by the way, cannot possibly be…

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Burglary at a Railway Station

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 4

Burglars entered the Narrabri railway station office on Wednesday night, dynamited the safe, and abstracted £20 in cash. In a gully…

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