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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

586 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 13 of 30

The Railway Proposal

The Cobar Herald · Friday 29 May 1908 · page 4

Before bur next issue will be in circulation, Mr. Lee, Minister for Works, will have passed through Cobar in his gallop over the West…

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Proposed Deviation of a District Road

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 3

IT is proposed to open a new deviation of the road from Burroway via Torramungamine to Dubbo and to close the following district roads and grant same to Mr. J. A. Rvan…

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A Railway Robbery. £150 Worth of Tobacco

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

A CLEVER robbery has been effected on the railway between Sydney and Dubbo, which has resulted in £150 worth of tobacco being stolen from the department. The authorities are…

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District Railways. Began Gate-Sulbodney Deviation

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

THE hon. secretary of the Tottenham railway league has collected some interesting mining information of the progress of the field for the last eight months. Something like £22,031 has…

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Drought Railways

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 3

An enthusiastic gathering of pastoralists took plaoe in the Royal Hotel, Bourke, on Thursday night, the 21st inst., on the occasion of the usual wind-up social in…

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Shocking Railway Accident. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

A shocking accident occurrs at the Central Railway Station yesterday morning to a shunter named Bertiel Eilio aged 25, who was attempting to board a moving…

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In a Tramcar

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 7

Just as she entered the doorway the car gave a lurch, as street cars are apt to do, and the pretty girl was thrown into the lap of a fatherly Irishman…

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Interfering with a Railway Passenger

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 June 1908 · page 2

The unusual charge of interfering with a railway passenger named Norman Farlow was preferred against a young man named Frederick Gilmour…

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Railway Robbery

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 2

A clever robbery has been affected on th[?] railway between Sydney and Dubbo, which has resulted in L150 worth of tobacco being stolen from the department…

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Murrurundi Railway Disaster

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 2

Two officials were charged at the Police Court with negligent omission in connection with the Murrurundi railway disaster…

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Cycling and Motoring

The Western Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 4

According to the Sydney papers, the members of the N. S. W. League Council have taken exception to the action of the Victorian League in…

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Big Railway Combination. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 3

The Great Central and North-Eastern Railway Company's have effected a combination with a capital of £160,000,000…

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Murrurrundie Railway Disaster

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 3

Two officials were charged at the Police Court with negligent omission in connection with the Murrurrundie railway disaster…

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Police Court. Tuesday, June 2. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) a Railway Case

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1908 · page 2

George Doyle wag fined 20s, or 14 days in gaol, for travelling in a railway carriage without paying his fate. MUNICIPAL CASES…

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Railway to the West. Must Be Built at Once

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 June 1908 · page 3

A deputation of some 50 residents waited upon Mr. Lee (Minister for Public Works) on Saturday evening, in regard to the railway and a more…

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Big Blaze at Meadowbank. Railway Carriages Destroyed

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 June 1908 · page 6

The wood, machinery and carriage building shops of the Meadowbank Manufacturing Co., near Ryde, were destroyed by fire at an early hour…

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Special Train from Gilgandra

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 4

WE are requested to state that the special train leaving Gilgandra on Monday morning, will leave at 7.15 a.m. instead of 6.50 a.m., but will reach Dubbo at 9.15 as previously…

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Railway Refreshments

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 4

To-day, the Full Court gave its reserved decision in the special case stated for a decision in the case in which the leases of the refreshment room at Sydney railway station was…

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Another Railway Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 4

But Elliott, 25, shunter, who resided at Leichhardt, was run over by a train at the Central Railway Station, and had both legs cut off on Tuesday. He died this morning…

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Motor Bicycles on Roads

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 June 1908 · page 2

In accordance with a notice of motion, Cr. Brummell moved at the Macquarie Shire Council meeting on Saturday that "Immediate steps be taken to…

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