The New Bridge
ALTHOUGH it is hard to realise, after several years of agitation, that the building of a new bridge across the Macquarie is really about to be undertaken, yet some…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
432 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 22
Cobar Train Service. Through Trains Daily. to Commence January 11Th. Sydney
The Railway Commissioners have decided that from the 11th of January a through service will be given to Cobar from Nyngan daily (Sundays…
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REPLYING to aquestion regarding the trans- Australian railway proposal, Sir William Lyne says the work of the West Australian Government in seeking for water along the…
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A RAILWAY fatality was reported on Wednesday morning on the mountains. The Western goods train left Penrith about 1 a.m. with Guard Lennox in charge. Everything proceeded…
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The railway goods sheds and receiving yards are scenes of great activity now, and frequently heavily laden wheat trains disappear up the hill hound for Sydney…
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At the inquest on the victims who died at Auckland from the effects of the tram accident, the driver of the car that bolted said he had previously informed the…
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FOR some time past the Railway Commissioners have had under consideration the matter of improving the train service between Nyngan and Cobar, so that…
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Sir,—Now the dry season is on as, it seems absolutely required that the Railway Commissioners should insist on the using of the most efficacious form of spark arrester on the…
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The passenger traffic on the railways for the holiday fortnight represented £80,000, being £4000 less than the sum received last year…
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THE various mysterious looking contrivances that are being collected together on the banks of the Macquarie to assist in building the new bridge are causing no…
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A man whose garments-appeared to be in the last stages of decomposition, whose hair was unkempt, whose shoes were worn and whose step was weary, shuffled up to…
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A passenger train, travelling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, collided yesterday with a cattle train fourteen miles west of Topeka. Thirty passengers were killed and thirty other…
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PREPARATIONS for erecting the new bridge across the Macqnarie are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. A large shed is being erected on the scene of…
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AT the monthly meeting of the Dubbo R. and P. Association on Tuesday evening, the following correspondence was read:— To Railway Commissioners, asking for a…
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THE monthly meeting of the Committee of the Railway and Progress Association was held at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. Present: The President (Mr. G.H. Taylor, J.P.), Messrs…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Railway and Progress Association was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, Mr. G. H. Taylor presiding. There were also…
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FOR certain reason of their own the Railway Commissioners have refused to reinstate the daily train service on the Dubbo-Gilandria line, though the business--actual and…
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MR. James Nott, of Mount Pleasant, Bolaro, has written as follows to the S.M. HERALD:— "This seaaon's wheat harvest has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Guarding the Royal Train
When the King and Queen travel in their special train very great precautions are taken by the railway company to ensure the safety of the Royal travellers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The French Railways
From a recently published report it appears that the total number of employes on the French railway was as follows:— Managers and clerks, 3076; traffic…
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