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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1903

422 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 22

Boggabilla Railway

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 2

Replying to a deputation at Boggabilla Mr. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, said he was an advocate for light lines of railway,…

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Victorian Railway Revenue

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 June 1903 · page 4

The Victorian railway revenue for the past eleven months, is a quarter of a million less than for the previous corresponding period…

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The Railway Question

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING that the Works Committes seemed determined to quash the Tenterfield Casino proposal the people interested in thet route refuse to be bound…

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Road Vote

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 4

BRING aware of the fact that the Armidale district had not received impartial treatment at the hands of the authorities in the distribution of…

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A Motor For [?] Speed

The Inverell Times · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 7

At least one large firm manufacturing dynamos and motors is, says the American Engineer, at work upon a motor that will run at a speed of 10,000…

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Railway Extension CASINO

The Inverell Times · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 4

A representative public meeting held here last night adopted the resolutions passed at a recent meeting of the Byron Bay Railway League advocating the…

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Tenterfield-Casino Railway. Enthuslastic Public Meeting

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting to revive and organise the agitation in favour of the construction of a railway line from Tenterfield to Casino was held in the School of Arts on…

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Railway Sleepers

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1903 · page 4

A DIFFICULTY has arisen at Barmedman in connection with the supply of sleepers for the Temora- Wyalong extension. After supplying 80,000, which were passed and…

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Child Thrown from a Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 2

EARLY on Saturday morning a fettler named Clarke saw a paper parcel on the side of the railway line at the 8mile post on the Newcastle side of the…

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Glen Innes- [?]parran Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 3

IN reply to representations made by Mr. W. F. Ogilvie, addressed to the local Road Superintendent, and urging expenditure on two small gullies in "Paris Lane," on the road from Glen Innes to…

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Done the Railway Company

The Inverell Argus · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 3

"I've got the best of this could railway company for once in me life." "How is that, Pat?" "I've bought a return ticket to London,…

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Proposed Inverell, Emmaville, Deepwater, Tenterfield, Drake, Casino Railway. (To the Editor of the Argus.)

The Inverell Argus · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 2

Sir,—Will you kindly allow me apace in your valued columns in reference to a direct line of railway to Byron Bay from Inverell, which I maintain is the only profitable route…

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Proposed Inverell, Emmaville, Deepwater, Tenter- Field, Drake, Casino, Railway. (To the Editor Inverell Times.)

The Inverell Times · Saturday 20 June 1903 · page 3

Sir,--Kindly allow me space to place a few facts before the people of Inverell and district in favor of the above route to Byron Bay. As the farming industry…

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Mr. Carruthers and Railway Employees

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1903 · page 4

Mr. Carruthers has issued a circu[?]ar to the railway employees, denying the report that he intended, if he succeeded to office, to interfere with…

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Railway Proposals

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1903 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting in Casino recently adopted the resolutions of the meeting of the Byron Bay Railway League in advocacy of the construction of the railway line from…

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Furracabad Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1903 · page 2

AT the instigation of residents of Furracabad Valley and vicinity, Mr. Wright is moving to got from the Department a grant to improve the rood connecting their holdings and farms with the town…

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Border Railways

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 4

Commenting on the recent visit of the New South Wales Minister for Works to the Border districts, and the Premier…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. A Train Derailed. Heavy Loss of Life

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 July 1903 · page 5

A train was derailed at Barcelona, Spain, while crossing a bridge, and fell into a river 30 feet below. Thirty persons were killed and sixty injured…

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Railway Wool Carriage

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 2

THE operations of the Railway Department in the carriage of wool during the financial year terminating at the end of June, were much smaller than those recorded during the previous 12 months…

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Motor-car Race in Ireland

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1903 · page 5

Immense crowds assembled in Ireland to witness the Gordon-Bennett motor-car race. Thousands camped along the whole route, and huge…

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