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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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The Great Siberian Railway

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 8 June 1901 · page 5

The special trains on the Siberian railway carry a library, piano, writing conveniences, barber's shop, gymnasium, ice-water, hot water, dials which indicate the next station…

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Ford's Bridge. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Western Herald · Wednesday 12 June 1901 · page 2

The weather continues unsottled. Since my last a light shower or so fell early on Thursday morning, occompanied with strong wind and dust from the south west…

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Accident on the Railway. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 12 June 1901 · page 4

A man named John Matten, residing at Gordon, was found on the railway line yesterday with his head completely severed from his body, and his left arm…

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Verdict Against Railway Department. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 6

A boy named Resleur yesterday obtained a verdict of a thousand pounds against the Railway Commissioners as compensation for the loss of his leg…

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Short Story a Railway Romance

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 3

Samways is a porter with whom I have struck…

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Werris Greek Railway

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 June 1901 · page 2

The "Orange Lender" says:—We have been letting this matter rest lately, but not because it has lost any of its paramount importance, neither because we have lost hope…

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Railway Earnings. Sydney, June 14

The Western Herald · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

The Commissioners report that then way earnings are keeping up in a most [?] priring manner…

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Railway Earnings

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 3

The Commissioners report that the railway earnings ate keeping up in a most surprising manner…

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Railway Meeting

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 2

The adjourned railway meeting [?] held in the Mechanics’ Institute on Monday night and was well attended. Mr. R J. Parker was voted to the chair, who…

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Ford's Bridge. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 2

After the unsettled state of the weather that prevailed recently, when we were favored with 45 points of rain, we are now having a temperature down to freezing point, with…

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The Future of the Tramp

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 4

The Fortnightly Review has an article by Mr. W. H. Dawson upon the tribulation of "Weary Willie" by which name the tramp is known in the…

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The Coonamble Railway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 2

The work of constructing the Dubbo Coonamble line goes forward steadily, if somewhat more slowly than our friends at Coonamble could desire. Fresh…

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Railway Extension

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 25 June 1901 · page 2

A meeting of the committee, appointed to draw up a petition and have it circulated throughout the district for signatures in favor…

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The Road Vote

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 26 June 1901 · page 3

Speaking at Captain's Flat, Mr. O' Sullivan promised to increase the road vote to one million sterling…

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The Traffic Bridge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1901 · page 1

Mr. S. Phillips has been notified by the Under Secretary for Works that instrsetions have been sent to the local officer for the necessary survey for a new…

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Ford's Bridge. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Western Herald · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 2

Lovely weather wo ftro having just now. Bright sunny days and frosty nights. Clouds are however riding in the eastward, and probably there will be a change before long…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [The Editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] Wilcannia Road. to the Editor Cobar Herald

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 4

Sir,—Some time since the had state of a portion of the main road, Cobar to Wilcannia, near the Meadows Hotel, was brought under the notice…

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Another Railway Accident. Sydney, June 25

The Western Herald · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 2

A collision has occurred near Katoomba, Five railway trucks belonging to a goods train smashed into the engine of a passenger train, and were damaged. No one was…

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Railway Collision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 5

A railway collision occurred at Katoomba on Wednesday night. Five trucks belonged to a goods train s[?]ashed into the engine of a passenger train, which was damaged, but no one…

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A Very Bad Road

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 July 1901 · page 2

Residents of Maryvale have still to complain that no attention has been given to their long-standing grievance concerning the Maryvale road, between Johnston's and…

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