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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1900

281 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 10 of 15

Railways in the Air

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 8

No branch of engineering has probably made such rapid strides within the last quarter of a century as the construction of mountain railways. Indeed, many of…

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Railway Passes for M's.p. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 3

The statement that members of the Assembly are petitioning the Ministry to present each member with a free railway pass for life owing to its being…

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Railway Refreshment Rooms

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 August 1900 · page 4

Few people seem to know that the Railway Refreshment Rooms is really a first-class hotel, capably managed and with every comfort that can be found in any hotel in…

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Metrpolitan Echoes. the Motor Car

The Western Herald · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 3

OF the strange doings of which is older lands so much has been board during recent years, is beginning to obtrade itself upon the attention of Sydney people. A…

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Remarkable Railway Carriages

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 8

ROYAL trains may justly be termed remarkable. Most European Sovereigns possess one or more, and all are superbly furnished. Our own Queen's is a model…

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Railway Strike in Wales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4

By a railway strike in Wales 30,000 colliers have been thrown out of employment, and trade is paralyzed…

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Traveller. Won on the Railway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 3

'People talk about the transatlantic professional poker player,' observed a gentleman recently, 'but over here I can prove to you any day that we have men…

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Railways Destroyed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 2

The Boers have exploded the railway in the vicinity of Roetze's Drift. The railway south of Newcastle has also been destroyed by the Boers…

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More Railway Destroyed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

The railway has been exploded by the Boers near Krugersdrop…

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The Netherland's Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 4

Correspondents seized at Pretoria shows that President Kruger's request the Netherland's railway was financed by Mr. Hargrove, one of Dr. Leyd's agents, who was afterwards…

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Railway From Wellington to Werris Creek. Adverse Report of the Works Committee

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 4

THE report of the Public Works Committee on the proposed railway from Wellington to Werris Creek was laid before Parliament on Wednesday. The committee furnish the following…

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Railway From Wellington to Werris Creek

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 2

THE report of the Public Works Committee on the proposed railway from Wellington to Werris Creek was laid before Parliament on Wednesday. The…

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Railway from Wellington to Werris Creek

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 2

The report of the Public Works Committee on the proposed railway from Wellington to Werris Creek was laid before Parliament on Wednesday. The committee furnished the following…

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Boer Supply Train Derailed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 5 September 1900 · page 2

A number of scouts cut the railway at Klip River and burnt a supply train of 28 tracks and captured thirty-five prisoners…

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Train Derailed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 4

The Boers derailed a train at the Pietersburg line injuring some of the West Riding Regiment…

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Ford's Bridge. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

The weather has been very unsettled for the pash week. Our anticipation of a good rainfall has met with disappointment, inasmuch as only a few very light showers…

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Dubbo to Coonamble Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 4

ON Thursday Mr. E. Sievers, the Government Land Valuer, visited Dubbo for the purpose of arranging for the purchase or resumption of the necessary land along the route of the Dubbo to…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquari Aduocate Saterdat september [?] [?] Dubbo-coonamble Railway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

THE Government Land Valuer, Mr. E. J.Sievere, arrived in Dubbo on Thursday morning to complete the acquisition of the necessary land for the construction of…

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Railway Rates

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

With the opening up of this district more and more to agriculture, we are being more and more urgently called on to face the problem of overcoming the…

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Syndicate Railways

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 2

There are five syndicate railways before the Queensland Parliament, upon which the promoters are prepared to spend £2,000,000 sterling, in addition to £2,000,000 more in…

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