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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

584 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 30

The Railway Accident. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 5

MR. BATTY, who fell from the Melbourne train, was managing director for Hornsby and Sons, Melbourne, and was 'returning to Melbourne from New Zealand. He intended,…

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Tramway Smash

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1907 · page 4

In a tramway smash at [?] last night, one person was killed and three injured. The brakes failed to act, and a car ran into a [?]…

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Railway Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1907 · page 6

On the arrival of the express train at Albury from Sydney on Monday morning. Mr. Henry Batty, a first clase passenger, was reported to be…

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Train Held Up

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

Armed men boarded a train in Russia and killed the guard and driver, and got off with £4000 in booty…

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Train Hosiery. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 5

ARMED men boarded a train in Russia and killed the guard and driver. They also wounded the cashier, and robbed him of £4000…

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Miscellaneous. an Ice Motor-gar

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 5

THE development of the steamship, the locomotive and the motor-car, would seem to have exhausted the held of novel means of transportation on land or water…

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A Motor Bicycle [?]Eadge

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 5

Mr. Walter Wellman, who has a scheme on foot for reaching the North Pols by means of an air-ship, is unilising all the resources of modern invention and science…

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A Railway Derelict. an English Sketch

The Inverell Times · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 9

It Is the funniest station in or out of Bradshaw. Snorting expresses rattle through it contemptuously, Only a few of the tied local trains that crawl…

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The Local Railway Question

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 4

The conference last Monday of delegates representing the various districts interested in the question of urging on the Government the pressing need for…

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Railway Conference Dinner

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

Following on the railway conference in the morning, a dinner was tendered the visiting delegates at Tattersali's Hotel in the evening. There were…

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New Electric Tramcars. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners propose to shortly call traders for 60 new electric Bamway cars…

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Railways in China

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 7

THE effects of the recent war between Japan and Russia are being felt all over China, and they mark what is the beginning of an…

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Walcha Road

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 2

A ball in aid of the local Football Club was held in the School of Arts on Friday night, last week, and proved a great success. The hail was…

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Railway Conference

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 2

A conference of delegates from different parts of New England was held at Armidale on Monday for the purpose of urging the Government to…

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Burglars at work. Railway Safe Blown Open

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 9

Between the hours of three and four o'clock on Sunday morning the railway stationmaster's office was entered by burglars and the sale blown open…

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Reduction in Railway Fares. SYDENY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 5

A reduction in the fares on country lines will probably come into force on 1st July…

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The Motor Car. on the Riviera

Guyra Argus · Thursday 6 June 1907 · page 8

"C.," writes In the "Westminster Gazette":—The chief thing that struck us was the extraordinary change that has come…

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Shire Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 2

In respect to the necessity for repairs to Shannon Vale road referred to in the last issue of the Examiner, Shire Engineer Wisnet informs us that he will make an inspection of the road a most…

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Extra Mall Train

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 2

THE Railway Commissioners are unfavorable to he proposal of the extra mad road tram between Sydney and Brisbane, as it would involve an increase of Sunday labor…

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Walcha Road

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 2

The weather for the past week has been very favourable for this time of the year. We have not opened the football…

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