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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport
432 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 22
THE Railway Commissioners have completed the new rate book which will take effect Monday next May 1. The principal alteration is the practical abolition of the system under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Under the now railway charges six ton truck rates fur general merchandise are withdrawn, while one ton rates are reduced. The rates for hay, straw and chaff are slightly raised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RESPECTING a letter in last issue, signed b[?] "A Worker," the contractor for the earthwork at the new traffic bridge over the Macquarie River -- himself (we are informed) a Unionist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A train laden with passengers to the St. Louis exhibition was derailed in Missouri yesterday. Fifty persons were killed or wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inadequate provision for the traffic on the Dubbo Gligandra line is becoming a matter of public scandal. We are informed that on one trip during the past week five track Loads of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE time is very near when the public if this State will have to come face to face with the question whether the administration of our railway affairs by Commissioners has not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great many people have travelled is trains daring the past fortnight and many must have noticed the dirty state ot the seats in not a few of the carriages,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'General' Theodore Brump, of Coronado Beach, California, who is a confirmed motorist, companies of the prejudise against motor-cars exhibited by the birds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE principal alteration in the railway rates caused by the scheme put in force on Monday relate (says the Daily "Telegraph") to what are known as six-ton truck rates, under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Railway Commissioners have just introduced a new railway rates book, which same into operation on and from Monday week, and a copy of the book has been forwarded The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elizabeth Jennie Meyer, married woman, was killed by a tram in George-street last night. A [?] of accidental death has been [?] turned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been informed that the sum of £1700 is to be expended on improvements to the railway goods sheds at Dubbo, which have been necessitated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A road race, under the management of the Wellington branch of the League of Wheelmen, is to take place on Wednesday, 25th instant, over a 10 miles coarse, viz., from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners have just introduced a new railway rates book, which came into operation on and from Monday week last, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE increased railway charges for the carriage of merchandise will, it is expected (says the "Western Advocate") be the cause of horse teams being equipped for the conveyance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious railway smash happened in the Bendigo (Victoria) station yard on Saturday owing to a string of empties crashing into a blind siding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE " Maitland Mercury " of Saturday last, in an article approving in the main of the increase in railway rates, says :-"Complaint is made that the Commissioners have favored…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The State Treasurer has decided to increase the expenditure on the central railway station to £700 per month…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool. -- There has been a fair amount of enquiry during the past week, but supplies are very restricted, the majority of holders preferring to await the monthly local sales to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Railway Commissioners were recently asked to amend the conditions in regard to the issue of tourist tickets to the district between Bundanoon and Goulburn on the southern line,…
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