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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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Our Railway Service. Two Objections

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 February 1901 · page 4

In a letter to the S.M. Herald, Mr. W. H. Morrison, of Wilcannia, draws attention to several drawbacks directly affecting Cobar…

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Fatal Railway Accident. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, February 15

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 February 1901 · page 2

A terrible railway accident occurred at Tempo to-night. Fourteen passengers were killed and thirteen injured. No full particulars yet received…

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Tempe Railway Disaster. Seven Persons Killed Outright. Twenty-four Injured. [Bt Telegraph.] Saturday, 9 a.m

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 2

The complete accounts of the railway accident at Tempe, give three boys and four men killed outright, and twenty-four persons injured…

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Railway Disaster Near Syden. Ham

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 2

A TERRIBLE railway accident took place on the Hlawarra line, between Sydenham and Tempe on Friday eveniur. The story of the accident, as witnessed by a…

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The Railway Disaster

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 2

In the case of persons who were dependent upon any of the victims of the disaster and who may have been placed by it in necessitous circumstances the Railway Commissioners are…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 3
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

On Friday evening at 8-15 a telegram announced that an accident had occurred just previously at Tempe, 5 miles from Sydney on the Illawarra line, and that 14…

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The Railway Disaster. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 3

With the exception of the driver of the train, Mathew Doyle, those injured in the railway accident are progressing favorably…

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Railway Catastrophe

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 3

One of those awfully sudden disasters which sometimes plunge a community into dismay and mourning, occurred on Friday evening on the…

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The Roads Vote

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 5

The State Minister for Works hopes to materially increase the road vote next year…

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Train Derailed by Boers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 5

A train was derailed by the Boers between Johannesburg and V[?]niging, but the enemy were repulsed before they were able to plunder…

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Victorian Train in Danger. Melbourne

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 4

THE presence of mind of an engine driver today saved a passenger train from D[?]rat from a serious accident. As 6.30 a.m., when the train was a mile past…

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The Road Vote. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 5

The Minister for Works hopes to be able to materially increase the Road vote next year…

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Previous Railway Accidents

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 7

In the last 23 years there have been comparatively few accidents. On January 80, 1878, two goods trains collided at Penrith, killing 3…

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Railway Disaster. Nine Persons Killed. Many Injured

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 7

Just as the last issue of the Cobar Herald was being persued, a terrible railway accident occurred at Sydenham, on the Sydney to Hurstville line…

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The Railway Disaster

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 4

MATTERS in connection with the Sydenham railway disaster are at present at a standstill pending the coronial and official inquiries. The former has been fixed for the 26th instant, and…

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The Railway Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 5

Mr. Beattie, injured in the Sydenham railway disaster, has so far recovered as to be able to leave the hospital. All the other patients are doiug well…

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The Railway Disaster. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 3

The inquest on H. Daruley, one of the victims of the Sydenham railway disaster, was resumed to-day. Mr. Carrathers, M.P., was present…

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Train Late. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 5

Owing to the wheel of a goods train connection becoming disabled near Gunning, which blocked the line, the Melbourne express arrived in Sydney…

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Ford's Bridge. [From Our Own Correspondent]

The Western Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 2

Matters have been very quiet out this way for some little time, and likely to continue so I fear. The good old times when the country round was fully stocked,…

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