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

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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News and Notes. The Railway Constructions

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 3

Plate la vers are at work across the viaduct, and it is expected that the contractors engine will soon be playing cross the bridge. We hear…

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Railway Refreshment Room

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 3

AT the Tamworth Municipal Council on Monday night the Mayor directed the attention of the Council to the very limited accommodation…

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Railway Management

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 3

The following is from the pen of "Jo-Jo" in Bingara Telegraph. We publish it ill toto but feel that one or two of the references to the…

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Miscellaneous. an Ice Motor-car

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 9

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

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A Motor Bicyle Sledge

Manilla Express · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 9

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

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The King's Journey. Royal Motor-car Destroyed

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 7

King Edward left Paris by special train for Biarritz at haif-past ten this morning (5th March). He reached his destination this evening, and took…

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A Railway Derelict. an English Sketch

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 3

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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New Railway Rates

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 5

THE N.S.W. Executive Council has sanctioned further concessions made by the Railway department in the matter of railway rates. Prominent among…

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Across the Bridge She Goes

Manilla Express · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 2

A RAILWAY engine crossed the new bridge for the first time yesterday shortly after noon. The whistle and "puff-puff" in that direction…

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Letters to the Editor. (We do not necessarily endorse the opinions of our correspondents.) The Railway, West

Manilla Express · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 2

Sir.--RE Boggabri-Manilla loop-line railway, that has been advocated now consistently for some time; such…

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Motor Car

Manilla Express · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 2

A FINE looking motor car, with hood overhead, arrived in town yesterday morning. It was the property of Mr. Simpson, of Mr. Simpson, of Burindi…

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Buck Jumping Contest. Ben Bridge v. Milky Carver

The Moree News · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 2

There was a crowded house at Mar[?]'s [?]ockjumping Show at Inverell on Saturday night a lengthy programms was gone through. The main…

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Ben Bridge and Carver

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 1

THE Inverell Times, in its report of the rough riding contest between Ben Bridge and W. Carver (well known a ere), says :--Ben Bridge toed the…

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The Motor Car. on the Riviera

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 3

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

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Railway Debt. SYDNEY

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 1

Mr. Carruthers is endeavoring to work out a scheme by which the railway debt of fifty millious will be handed over…

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In a Crowded Railway Carriage

Manilla Express · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 7

It was her first holiday excursion, and she entered the compartment of a railway carriage with much trepidation, and. sat down rather gingerly in one of the corner seats…

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Local and General News Bridge at Somerton

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 4

IT has been rumored about town that Mr. Levien has been promised £1425 towards the construction of a bridge over the Peel River near Somerton…

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Bridge at Somerton

Manilla Express · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 2

THE following report by the engineer on the above matter was read at the last meeting of the Liverpool Shire Council:--''Two sites have…

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A Royal Motor. Kills a Baby. Queen-mother's Grief

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 2

The Lisbon correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote on 25th March:-- A royal motor car conveying the Queen-Mother and Prince Affense, the…

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Railway Collision at Orange

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

A COLLISION took place at the Orange railway station on Tuesday night between the Forbes mail train and a large train of loaded trucks, but no person…

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