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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

3,597 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 180

Train Disappears. Grave Disaster Feared. Parts of Ceylon Flooded

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 5

LAHORE, Tuesday.—It is feared that a grave disaster has overtaken a mail train on the run to Colombo from Jaffna. This section of the northern area is seriously flooded…

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Strange Story Mail Train Disappears. Supposed to be Swallowed up in Flood. Waters

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. --It is feared that a grave disaster has overtaken the mail train en route to Colombo from Jaffna Junction…

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SPIRITUALISM £3000 Bequest Disputed. Caustic Council says that Bequest to train Three Card Tricksters Would not be Valid

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. --The validity of a bequest of £3000 to the London Spiritualistic Alliance to establish a training college for mediums was…

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A Rational way of increasing Motor Engine Power

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 4

Perhaps it is because of the amazing power that so diminutive a thing as a motor engine can exert, that motor enthusiasts ever since motoring came…

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Railway Coal Contracts. Dispute with Proprietors

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Negotiations are still in progress between the colliery proprictoms land railway department concerning coal contracts, the holding up of which…

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Armed Rebels. Hidden in Motor Lorry

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 5

LONDQN, Tuesday.—The Irish, emulating Troy's wooden horse, piled a motor lorry with, grey blankets in which rebels armed with rifles were hidden. When the lorry…

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Aeroplane at Brunswick Heads

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 2

Brunswick Heads folks will have the opportunity of trying, an aeroplane flight, and also of looking down on their fellow citizens from the skies, at this…

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Road Construction

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—Deputations from the Shires and Municipal Associations urged increased Government assistance for road construction. They also…

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Country Roads. More Money Required

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Members of the Shires' Association saw the Minister yesterday in regard to the maintenance of country roads…

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Completely Wrecked. Missing Train Discovered

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

LAHORE, Wednesday.—The missing Colombo mail train reported to have disappeared in the flooded area has been discovered completely wrecked, but it is…

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Train Leaps Chasm. Miraculous Escape

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.—How the Dublin mail train, with two hundred passenger, leapt a yawning chasm and miraculously escaped destruction has…

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Bullock Waggon on the Line. Collision with Train

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—On Monday as the Wauchope mail train was proceeding to Sydney crowded with passengers, it collided with, the jinker of a bullock waggon…

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Completely Wrecked Fate of Missing Train. All Hands Believed to be Safe

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 3

LAHORE, Wednesday.--The missing Colombo-Jaffna mail train, which was reported yesterday to have disappeared in the flooded area, has been discovered…

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Tweed Heads Road Engineer's Recommendation. He says an Expenditure of £8316 is Necessary, and he Favors Tar Macadam or Asphalt

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 2

A report as to the present" condition of the Murwillumbah-Tweed Heads road and proposals for improving the road, was submitted to the meeting of the…

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Railways Restore 48 Hours

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Railway Commissioners are trying to restore the 48-hour week with as little hardship as possible…

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Motor Accident Third Death Recorded

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.--The fatal motor car accident at Coorparoo on Friday night when the motor car driver and a lady passenger were killed outright and…

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On the Railway

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 2

It is galling enough for travellers by the evening. train from Lismore to Murwillumbah to have to submit to the conversion of the one-time passenger train…

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Third Death. Brisbane Motor Car Smash

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The fatal motor accident at Coorparoo on Friday when a motor car driver and a lady passenger were killed outright and three others…

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A New Aeroplane

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 8

An areoplane as been constructed at Wollongong by Mr. R. Wooldey, according to his own design. The machine is pronounced by…

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Tarring Shire Roads

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 2

Tomki Shire Council yesterday turned down a suggestion by the engineer (Mr. Cameron), that tar dressing should be tried on the Shire…

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