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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

686 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 35

Railway Deputation

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 4

A REPRESENTATIVE gathering of townspeople waited on Mr. G. Henson, District Superintendent, at Casino Railway Station, yesterday, at 1 p.m…

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Casino Railway Station

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 7

LAST Thursday Mr. G. Henson, District Superintendent of Railways, visited Casino for the purpose of reporting in connection with the request by local…

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The Quarry Lagoon Bridge

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

MR. J.H.C. HARPER, secretary of the Casino Progress Association, has received from the Works Department a notification stating that the application to have…

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Get off the Bridge

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 3

UPON one occasion a large party of a Pan-Presbyterian Congress in Scotland came to survey the classic borderland. The end of the bridge bears a notice that…

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Road to Evans River

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

A local resident, who has just returned from a trip to Evans River and successfully braved the perils of the road, has perpetrated the following:—…

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New Pelican Greek Bridge the Official Opening

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 10

For upwards of 30 years the people of coraki and North Codrington have been agitating and agitating, in the face of departmental opposition and official apathy, for…

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Tableland-Coast Railway

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 10

SIR,—Permit me to say a few words anent a subject much discussed at present—the Tableland Railway. By all means let us have a railway, with Coraki the terminus,…

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Opening of Pelican Creek Bridge

Northern Star · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 4

That long and much needed work, the bridge over Pelican Creek, on the Lismore Coraki road, was formally opened last Tuesday at noon by Mr. John Mckinnon,…

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Miscellaneous. Wooden Railways

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 3

THERE are still several wooden railways in existence in Canada and the United States. One of them is in the province of Quebec, and is 30 miles long. The rails are…

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A Motor Device for Propelling Small Boats

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 3

An interesting device in the way of applying a motor to a small craft has been brought out by G. Trouche and Company and constructed at their Buchet works near Paris…

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Another Motor Car for Lismore

Northern Star · Monday 4 March 1907 · page 2

The "Courier" writes:—The motor continues to spread into the outside districts, and Mr. G. E. Bunning, the wellknown pastoralist, has just purchased a…

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Casino Roads

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 2

THE road-making machine is at last operating on Casino streets. Canterbury-street, above West-street, has been attended to, and Walker street is now being…

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Road-making Extraordinary

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 4

IN heavy black soil, or in country where it is difficult to get stone material for road-making,the experiments which are being made in America should interest…

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That Daily Train

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners have informed the Council that they are perfectly willing to run a daily train service between Grafton and Casino providing that the Postal…

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The Speed of a Train

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 11

If you are traveling by railroad and want to know how fast the train is running you may determine it almost exactly, by counting the clicks made by…

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Earth-Trammels

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 8

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

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Telephoning From a Train

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 4

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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Local News. The Road Vote

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 4

THE Government road vote for the Casino Municipality of £208 has been approved of, and the voucher has been sent signature. When returned the money will be paid into…

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The Eden Creek-Wooroowoolgen Road

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 4

A STERLING up-river farmer writes:—Having had occasion to travel down the above road after many years, the writer was surprised to find every chain of…

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Coraki-Tenterfield Railway

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 4

IT must be a matter of extreme gratification to everyone interested in the welfare and progress of Northern N.S.W., to know that our Member, the Hon. the Minister for Works,…

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