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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1898

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To Train the Sheep Dog

The Western Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 4

The best sheep dogs (says the Cable) are trained from early puppy-hood, and it is a difficult matter to begin with a full-grown dog and make…

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Railway Matters. the Public Works Committee

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 2

The Secretary received on Saturday a communication from the Under Secretary to the following effect: — Date of letter under reply :—18th…

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Railway Accident. Auckland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 3

An engine and two carriages of a trian on the Kaukapakapa line were derailed owing, it is supposed, to the rails expanding through the heat…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Wednesday, January 5, [?]. Railway Matters

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 2

THE holidays being over, people are settling down once again to the ordinary business of lite. Included in that business, so far as this district is…

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Nevertire to Warren Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 4

THE new railway from Nevertire to Warren is now completed. The line, which is of the pioncer type, branches off the Nevertire station. The length of the line is 12 miles 43 chains. Belleringar Creek,…

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Alleged Theft of a Gun From the Railway Goods [?]

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 2

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Railway. [To the Editor. Bligh Watchman]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1898 · page 2

SIR,—Now that we have received definite information that the proposed line from Werris Creek VIA Bomera and Coonabarabran to Coonainble is to be considered…

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Railway Opening at Warren

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Club House Hotel, on Wednesday evening (says the 'Herald') to decide whether an official opening and celebration of the Warren Railway would take place or…

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The Railway League

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 3

A MEETING of the League was held on 29th January, when the treasurer Dr. Failes announced that 37 members had paid their subscriptions, and L3-0 was…

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Decapitated by a Train

The Western Herald · Wednesday 16 February 1898 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred on the railway line close to Stawell on February 3. A party of about fifty young boys belonging to the Stawell Juvenile…

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Dubbo-coonamble Railway. Public Meeting at Balladoran

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1898 · page 2

IN view of the approaching visit to Dubbo and the surrounding country of some of the members of the Public Works Committee, measures are being…

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The Coonamble Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting of settlers in the Balladoran, Coalbaggie, and Gilgandra districts, was held at Johnson's Hotel, Balladoran, on 9th inst. for the purpose of arranging a plan of action to…

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A Railway Critic

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 23 February 1898 · page 2

“MAC,” in a letter elsewhere, objects to the claim of the Railway League for a railway to Coonamble VIA Coonabara bran. Like the politician who opposed…

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Dubbo-coonamable Railway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1898 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held in Mr. R. Hitohin's Hall, Gilgandra, on Wednesday, 16th February, for the purpose of forming a railway league with the…

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Train Derailed. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 3

A train has been derailed at Broken Hill, 17 trucks were derailed…

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Coonamble Railway. to the Editor of the Dubbo "Dispatch."

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 2

SIR,-- I have another word to say re railway extension to C[?]onamble. The people along the Dubbo [?] are just waking up to a sense of their own interests. They are forming…

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The Warren-coonamble Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 2

MR. S. Phillips, M.P., recently wrote to Mr. C. Lyne, Secretary of the Public Works Committee, asking when a Sectional Committee would be appointed, and when it might be…

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The Tomingley Road. (To the Editor of the Dubbo Liberal.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1898 · page 3

SIR,—It is only when one has to travel the roads that he is able to form a fair idea of the annoyance and inconvenience—to say nothing of the risks to life and limb—…

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A Victorian Jockey on the Road to Klondyke

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 3

THE following account of an attempt to reach Klondyke is from the pen of Mr. C. A. Serosa, a yong Victorian who recently set out from San Francisco for the Arctic goldfield in company…

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Dubbo-coonamble Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 4

THE delegates from the Balladoran Railway League--Messrs. C. W. Brown, W. G. Brown, G. P. Barnett, and James Bell--visited Dubbo on Wednesday and met Messrs. S. Phillips,…

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