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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

412 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 21

Narrabri-walgett Railway. Walgett

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 5

The Barwon river steamers Cato and Wandering Jew arrived to-day with 52 tons of general cargo for stations and local stores. Pending the completion of the…

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Funeral Train Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 5

The complaint of a correspondent in yesterday's issue, relating to some alleged inconvenience in regard to the funeral train service to Sandgate on Sunday was…

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Port Arthur Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Admiral Alexieff, the Russian Viceroy in the Far East, announces that railway communication between Port Arthur…

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Road Repairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 6

Sir,—I wish to draw the attention the authorities, to the bad state of the roadway way in Denison-street, Carrington opposite the air-shaft and Young-street…

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Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 6

At about 9.23 on Wednesday evening, the Brisbane mail train, after passing Farley Station, collided with a bullock, which had escaped from Farley cattle yards. The animal…

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Destroying the Siberian Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 3

One of the serious menaces to rapid work in transport of troops, as well as one of the drains on Russia's military protective forces, are, says "Engineering," the…

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Port Arthur Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The report issued by Admiral Alexieff, the Russian Viceroy, that the railway to Port Arthur has been reopened since Monday,…

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Motor Car for the People

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 9

The increased use of the motor car by doctors, and for other professional purposes, has given rise to a demand for a light car which would serve the same…

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Transferred Railway Ticket. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 5

Before the Full Court to-day, argument was continued in the case in which Edgar Kauter appeared against a conviction for travelling in a train from Maitland to…

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Railway Coal Rates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1904 · page 4

The reply of the Railway Commissioners to the deputation that waited on them to protest against the imposition of differential railway rates for…

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Railway and Tramway Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 6

The Newcastle branch of the Railway and Tramway Association held their monthly meeting at the Trades Hall on Tuesday evening. There was a large…

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Greta. Road Deviation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 6

The petition which it is intended to present to the Minister for Works through Mr. C. H. Dight, M.P. asking for a deviation to be made of portion of the…

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Commissariat Train Captured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Japanese near Kai-chau captured a Russian commissariat train, restoring the carts and animals to the native…

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Motor-car Services

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 3

In several places in New Zealand people are going in for motor-car services. In the Auckland district a great deal of motoring is done. Long journeys have been…

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The Siberian Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Russia is terribly uneasy concerning the safety of the railway, though there are 25,000 soldiers guarding 1400 miles of the line…

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Motor Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 5

The poet hoped that the time would come for men to beat their swords into pruning hooks. It was a noble wish, but like many other desires of virtue, it is…

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Morrisset Train Service. a Public Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1904 · page 5

A well-attended public meeting was held at Hely's Hotel, Morrisset, on Saturday, for the purpose of considering matters to be brought under the notice of the…

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Adamstown Railway Station. Improvements Asked For

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1904 · page 5

A meeting of representatives of Now Lambton and Adamstown Councils was held on Saturday night, in the council chambers, for the purpose of devising…

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United States Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Owing to the shrinkage of business the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has suspended no fewer than 11,000 men on the section…

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Cricket. First Junior Final. Won-by Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1904 · page 6

The first junior final match between, Newcastle West and Railway was brought to a conclusion on the Association Ground on Saturday afternoon, Railway winning by 78 runs…

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