Chances of Railway Accidents.--
Only one passenger is killed in 6,947,131 railway journeys, and only one in 568,402 is so much as injured, a new Board of Trade Blue Book tells us. During 1898…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
281 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 15
Daring Tram Robberies. Attempting to Steal £300
AT the Central Police Court, on Thursday, before Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, D. S. M., Robert Shaw, 19, was charged with attempting to steal a canvas bag containing…
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Just as we go to press we learn that a railway accident occurred last (Thursday) night, at Maryvale, when a Mr. McMillan and his daughter were run…
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A VERY sad fatality occurred on the railway line about 10.30 on Thursday evening. A fettler named M'Millan, residing on the line just beyond Maryvale station, was,…
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Late last Thursday night the residents of Wellington were shocked and startled by news of an appalling fatality on the railway line, near Maryvale station, whereby the spirits of a father and daughter…
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A third attempt wan made to derail a train near St. Leonards, on Saturday. The obstruction consisted of two iron crew bars…
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A CORONER'S inquest was held in Wellington on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Angus McMillan and his daughter Kate, who were run over by train on Thursday…
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John L. Bourke, plumber, was killed on the railway lino at East Richmond, on Saturday night, the train passings over both his legs. LONDON, Sunday…
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On Saturday, Mr. Usher of the Railway Department, passed through on his way from Gilgandra to Curlewis. He is collecting evidence with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders for Road Wore
Attention in directed to an advertisement in another column inviting tenders fora number of road contracts in the district…
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Mr. Harry Gibson, a well-known railway official, ever takes an earnest if quiet interest in all that pertains to the welfare of state or individual…
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Only a weak rear guard held the position across the Ladysmith railway…
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At the Wellington Police Court on Friday, 23rd instant, before Messrs. W. P. Pridham, J.P. Clifford, and C. H. Siggins, J's.P. Emily Hammon, on remand, was…
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A woman named Rosina Grillin fell from the Rose Bay electric train last night and was killed…
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WE are prepared (says the "Coonamble Independent") to admit that the Coonamble Railway League has done good service in the past. But if over its good services were…
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Dr. Ross, M.P., writes the Council Clerk, Molong, as follows:—"Your letter, with enclosure from Secretary Railway League, urging line from Wellington to Werris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Motor Plough
Dr. Richard J. Gatling, who revolutionised methods of warfare by inventing the rapid-fire gun that bears his name, has invented a motor-plough. It is built on the principle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ford's Bridge. (From Our Correspondent.)
The weather during the past day or so has been excessively warm, the [?] muggy and un[?]. Again there are industrial at a coming rainfall bar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Passings. Ford's Bridge. [From our Correspondent.]
March 19—327 mixed fats, from Boorara to Nelly Springs, Bourke, A. Biddulph, owner, in charge…
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THE annual picnic of the Locomotive Traffic and Permanent Way employees, engaged on the railway lines west of Orange, will be celebrated at the Show…
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