Cycling and Motoring
The popular New Zealand racing cyclist, Pick who abandoned the cycle for the outrigger with a view of attaining aquatic championship…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
586 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 30
Railway Accident
Then William Palmer and his five children were crossing the railway line near Geelong, Victoria, yesterday afternoon in a buggy an exp[?] from Melbourne dashed into them…
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The Lartigue railway rung between Listowel and the well-known southern watering-place, Ballybunion, in the county Kerry. It is the only one of its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pekin -Paris Motor Car Race. (To the Editor of the Dubbo Dispatch.)
SIR,-- Looking through the interesting summary of last year's events, in your issue of January 1st, 1908, I notice you state that in the great Pekin -Paris Motor Car Race, only one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Question of Re -Poling Telegraph Lines. Suggested Use of Railway System
THE frequent collapses on the inter -State telegraph lines have been considered by the Postmaster -General, with the object of devising means of obviating the total cessations of…
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William Gibb, motorist, was to -day fined £3 for fast driving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Territory and Trans-continental Railway. Port Darwin to Bourke (N.s.w.)
A traveller who knows his Australia well has said that "If Captain Cook knew as much in the 18th century, as we do now in the 20th, of the…
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We are in a position to give a more detailed account of the deputation which waited on the Premier the other week in regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railway Freights. Reductions Approved
AT a meeting of the Executive Council of Victoria, a new by-law, bringing into operation a reduced scale of railway freight on various goods, has been approved. The total redactions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Killed on the Tram Line
A man was found on the tram-line at Balmain early this morning with his back broken. It is believed deceased was the son of the driver…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Stationed Burgled
Burgiers broke into the Bowden railway station, South Australia, yesterday, and dynamited the safe. They secured a quantity of money…
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Walter MacKley, who confessed to having attempted to derail the Adelaide express, has stated that on July 7, 1906, he placed a sleeper across the…
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When commenting in those notes a few weeks back upon the possibilities of the overland motorists, Messrs Dutton and Aunger, successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ways of the Railway Department. These " Six-ton" Trucks that Don t Carry Six-tons
AT THE last meeting of the Dubbo Branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, the Secretary (Mr. Pollock) was instructed to complain to the Railway Commissioners that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of the Railway Goods Manager. Mr. J. G. S. Corns
THE death of Mr. J. G. S. Corns, goods manager of the railways, and member of the staff committee, took place on Wednesday afternoon. The immediate cause of death was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tomingley Railway League
At a meeting of the Tomingley Railway League Mr. W. E Tink was elected secretary. It was [?] to approach the Minister with a view to having the…
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A meeting of the Coonabarabran Railway League was held in the Mechanics’ Institute on Friday night last. Present: Messrs, R. J. Parker (chair);…
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A paragraph has gone the rounds of the press that a party of South Australian motorists, under the leadership of Mr. Crettendon, of Alberton, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Changes. On the Western Line
A BATHURST paper says: " Changes are being made in the locomotive staff in the west. A very important departure has been made in stationing loco superintendents in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Railway to Broken Hill. Via Cobar or Condobolln
THE project for the extension of the Western railway station, either from Cobar via Wileannia or from Condoblin via Menindio, to Broken Hill is to engage the attention of the Cabinet at as…
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