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

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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Food for Starving Stock. Rebate on Railway Rates

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 2

It is provided in the railways goods regulations that whenever it is considered desirable by the commissioners they shall have power to introduce…

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Railway Eye-sight Tests

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 6

Mr. T. R. Johnson, the Chief Railway Commissioner of this State, has decided that no alteration can be mada in the eyesight tests which…

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The Boggabri Railway

Manilla Express · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 4

SO far we haven't seen anything of the surveyor Mr. C. A. Lee, Minister for Works, promised to send to make an inspection of the suggested…

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Road Enoineer's [?]Ort

The Moree News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 2

Road Moree to Rocky Creek. -- I have made an inspection of this road as [?] as [?] post. Except ex[?]sive lengths of [?]ing [?] little pa[?]ment walk has [?]…

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American Railways. "High Finance," Low Efficiency

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 2

Sydney Brooks writes in the "Daily Mail":-- Among the permanent problems of American life and politics, the…

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Brooklyn Tragedy. Appalling Motor Accident

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 3

Before the eyes of her husband, Mrs Jacob Tunbridge was thrown from an automobile on Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon. March 5th, and out to pieces…

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Tamworth-nundle Railway

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 5

The Premier, in his policy speech, stated that the Government intended to build a railway from Tamworth to Nundle, which would go through…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 4

A RAILWAY shunter named Patrick Bade O'Brien was killed at Woodville Junction, near Hamilton, and at the inquest on Saturday it was shown that the…

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Railway Station Robbed

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 14 May 1907 · page 4

THE booking office at the Belmore Railway Station was burglariously entered entered on Sunday rooming, and cash amounting to £2 1s 11d stolen…

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Train Alterations

Manilla Express · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 2

IT is known that an alteration in the railway time table will take effect from, the 19th instant, but what effect it will have on Manilla is not…

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New Railway Timetable

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 5

THE Northwestern Mailtrain will pass through Quirindi at 11.45 p.m. on and after Monday next, and not on Saturday as previously arranged. The train…

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Train Conductor Involved

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 6

At the Police Court on Wednesday Francis Lloyd, tram driver, and Lewis Wannick. tramcondactor. were charged with being drank while in the service…

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Firing at a Train

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 6

A telegram from Cooma to the "Daily Telegraph " published on Tuesday stated that a passenger by the Melbourne express on Monday night…

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The Railway

Manilla Express · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 4

Some time ago we expected that the railway engine would have been puffing into our midst by this time, but lately the work has not…

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The Motor Car. on the Riviera

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 21 May 1907 · page 2

The chief thing that struck us was the extraordinary change that has come over the quality of the visitors to the French Riviera during the last fifteen…

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Wants. the Railway

The Moree News · Tuesday 21 May 1907 · page 3

The recent wash-a-way on the Moree Narrabri railway ought to hasten the promised improvement in ballasting the line. Fortunately the rain was not…

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Road-making Plant

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 4

THE Liverpool Plains Shire Council (Gunnedah) are certainly up-to-date. From a report of their meeting of Tuesday last in the Advertiser we learn…

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Run Over by a Train

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 4

A MAN named James Murray was knocked down by a train at Hebburn on Wednesday evening. He was afterwards removed to Maitland Hospital…

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Philosophy of Railway Freights

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 24 May 1907 · page 5

WE take the following extracts from The Philosophy of Railway Freights, by "Gossip":--"There are too many men in the city, in Australia, and too…

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The Motor Bus Driver. As In' London

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 3

The motor 'bus driver will give way to nobody. He would not give way to a brewer's lorry. He would not give way to a traction engine. He would…

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