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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

366 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 19

Anna Bay Road

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 2

Alderman Moroney, the Mayor of Newcastle, has addressed the following letter to the Department of Public Works:—"The Anna Bay Progress Committee has…

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Japan's Gains. Railways and Minerals. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 5

Mr. Denison, the legal adviser of the Japanese Foreign Office, values the railways that have been transferrd by Russia to Japan at £30,000,000…

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A Machine-made Railway Clerk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 5

The automatic booking clerk appears in the long procession of modern labour saving contrivances, with such limitations as the lack of brain, eyes, and…

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Chinese Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Chinese Government is planning the construction of a trunk line of railway traversing the three central provinces from…

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Melbourne Railway Station. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 5

In the Assembly this evening Mr. Bent, the State Premier, announced that an agreement had been entered into between the co-operative brick companies and the…

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The Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 3

Our Railway Commissioners appear inclined to throw bouquets to themselves in connection with the 600 and odd pounds surplus they can show during the past…

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Working Men and Motor Cars

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 16

At a meeting of delegates, representing has had an interview at the House of Commons with Mr. Chamberlain held in Manchester, some of those present…

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Workmen's Railway Fares

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 16

Two pence, says "Engineering" seems to be a common charge for a workman's ticket. For this sum on the Great Eastern Railway he is carried on one branch a…

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Electric Cars v. Motor 'Buses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 13

A comparison of the relative cost of upkeep and power for petrol-driven omnibuses and electrically propelled tramways respectively has been prepared for the…

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Jubilee of the Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 4

The jubilee of the opening of the first railway in New South Wales is to be celebrated this week, and the function is one in which the people of…

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A Sydney Letter. Mr. Coghlan and His Advertisements.—touching Mr. Carruthers' Letter to Mr. Deakin.—unfortunate Names Which People Abroad Are Apt to Misinterpret.—a Song and Its Mistakes.—the Jubilee of Our Railways.—have We Done As Much As We Might Have with Such a System? Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 7

It is to be hoped we shall be given the oppurtunity of seeing all Mr. Coghlan's advertising for the purpose of public judgement. The one advertisement so far…

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Arbitration Court. Railway Traffic Employees. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 5

Judge Heydon had before him in the Arbitration Court to-day the case of the Railway Traffic Employees' Association and the Railway Commissioners…

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Railway Jubilee. Celebrations in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 4

The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the first railway line in New South Wales was celebrated in various ways to-day. Redfern and all the suburban…

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A Motor Car Built for Two

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 5

The motor car has got down to this— the "cyklonette tri-car," the name suggesting the cycle, also perhaps the cyclone, as evidencing speed, and the…

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Bicycle Road Race

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 6

The Newcastle Juvenile Bicycle Club's road race from Maitland to Newcastle yesterday, was keenly contested, the result being a win for W. Lee, 1min start, with…

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Murder in a Train. Woman's Body Found. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 5

A tragedy closely" resembling in sonic details the murder of a Mr. Mold in a train at the Merstham tunnell in England, in 1881, by the man Lefroy,…

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A Sydney Letter. the Patronage of the Railways. England's Big Custom, New South Wales' Small One.—the Work of Belittling This Country.—singapore and Manila.—a Forecast of the Writer's a Little While Ago.—a Wonderful Programme Up North. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 September 1905 · page 7

"So far as population is concerned, Australia, of all the civilised world, has on the bare face of statistics the best railway service in the world." Thus Mr…

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First Continental Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 16

The history of railway development naturally possess a peculiar interest to England as being the pioneer and builder of the first railway in the world…

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A Big Railway Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 11

The central railway station, for which a tender has just been accepted, will be one of the largest and most imposing of its kind the world over. The edifice will…

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Planting Railway Forests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 14

Conservative engineers and railway officials in many portions of the United States have concluded that it is good ceonomy to prepare at once for the inevitable…

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