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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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Train Travelling. Moree to Sydney. No. Ii

The Moree News · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

Afier perhepe A weary bot trip from Inverell to Moree, after nearly as bot Hud long a drg from Moree to Narrabri-- after suffering the tortures of the…

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Train Travelling. Moree to Sydney. No. III

The Moree News · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 1

There is another great inconvenience are which frequent travellers on the North Western line suffer, and that is the taking of the sleeping car off…

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Balloon for Railways

The Moree News · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 3

It is proposed by a German engineer to use balloons for railway purposes, A stationary balloon is fixed to a slide running along a single steel rail. This…

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Railway Engineers

Manilla Express · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 2

Mr. F. H. SMALL, Engineer of the Railway Construction Department, who has been in charge of the work on the Manilla-Barraba…

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Fireman's Experience Fall From Express Train

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 8

A remarkable experience happened to the fireman of the up Great Western Company's mail train from Milford Haven to Paddington, which arrived at…

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The Future of the Motor-boat

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 9

Count Recope is a great admirer of the motor-boat. As he truly says, tho motor boat is a comparative infant amongst craft, and many people are ignorant as to its…

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Escape From Death. in a Welsh Railway Tunnel

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 2

A thrilling experience befell Frank Webb, aged 11 years, living at Usk Vue Cottage, Christchurch, near Newport, on a December night (writes the "Daily…

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Earth-trammels

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 5

WHEN we look up at the glorious azure of the skies, now perhaps flecked with floating wisps of feathery cirrus suspended high in the upper regions o' the…

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General Commits Suicide. Decapitated by Passing Train

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 7

The decapitated body of Major-General Guise Tucker, formerly Commandant of the Royal Marine Artillery at Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth was found on the…

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Tram Luxury. Comfort on American Railways

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 7

A railway trip from Chicago to New York was once a thing to be prepared for in fear and trembling, but now the supplying of comfort to meet the…

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Cheap Train

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

THERE will be a special cheap excursion train to Sydney from Manilla on March 21, leaving at 10.3O p.m. The fares are fixed at the…

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Bridge Over Manilla

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

The delay in making a start with the contract for the construction of a timber bridge over the Manilla River was caused, it now transpires, awing to the inability…

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Burned to Ashes. End of a Railway Train. Awful Collision in America

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 7

Another railway disaster, almost as terrible in its effects as that at Washington, thrilled all America on the 2nd January, and (says the "London…

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Dramatic Elopment. Caught in the Train

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 7

A dramatic story of a frustrated elopement was told in the case of an Italian named Ferninand Vicenzi, 36, cook, and a Frenchwoman named Leontine Lebrun,…

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Escape From Death. in a Welsh Railway Tunnel

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 3

A thrilling experience befell Frank Webb, aged 41 years, living at Usk Vue Cottage, Christchurch, near Newport, on a December night (writes the "Daily…

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Manilla-Boggabri Railway

Manilla Express · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

THE Hon. S. W. Moore is in receipt of the following from the Public Works Department:-- "With reference to the letter dated 11th…

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Official Correspondence Pallamallawa bridge

The Moree News · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 2

With reference to year letter of 27th ultime, respecting the propowed evection of the Pallamallawa Bridge. I have the honor to inform too that…

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Telephoning From a Train

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 2

The Louisville correspondent of the "American" describes a successful test of a new invention enabling a railway passenger to telephone from a moving train…

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Fireman's Experience. Fall From Express Train

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 3

A remarkable experience happened to the fireman of the up Great Western Company's mall train from Mllford Haven to Paddington, which arrived at…

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Top Rushes' CreeK Road

Manilla Express · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

OUR Keep it correspondent writes: On the Upper Rushes' Creek road there are at present unpassable spots owing to trees having been feiled…

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