Accident to Coonamble Mail Train
THE Dubbo-Coonamble mail train which left Dubbo at half-past nine o'clock on Monday morning, met with an accident after it had proceeded a distance of about 300 yards from the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
586 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 14 of 30
Cycling and Motoring
Pleasurable motoring can only be enjoyed when tyre troubles are absent. By the adoption of the new Dunlop Detachable rim, half the annoyance of…
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A meeting of the Railway League was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening. The Mayor (Ald. Leah) presided, there being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Commissioners Sued
The action brought Elieen Mary Cross against the Railway Commissioner for in Cowra sustained in a train accident at the Cowra Railway Station in December last, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Late Train
The mail train, which left Sydney last night, arrived in Wellington this morning about an hour and a half late. The train was a very heavy one, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cutting Trees on Roads
At the Wellington Police Court on Friday, before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., the Cobbora Shire Council proceeded against George Rowe on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Commissioner's Tour
The Railway Commissioners' left Sydney at 11.32 last night on a tour of the Western line. They arrived at Bathurst at 4.33 this morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For Closer Settlement. Reserves Along This Dunedoo Mudgee Railway Route
Mr. R. Jones, M.L.A. for. Mudgee, has received the following official letter as reserves for close settlement:— Department of Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Train Accident. Sydney
William McPhercon, a middle-aged man, attempted to board a moving train yesterday, when he missed his hold and fell between two cars. He received a shocking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reckless Motoring
At Seattle, British Columbia, a wealthy lumberman has been sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment for killing a child while recklessly motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners
THE Railway Commissioners who are making a travelling inspection of the western lines, are exported to be in Dubbo at 2 o'clock to-day (Wednesday). They will proceed from here to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Free Railway Trip
The Premier, Mr. Wade, [?]tly refuses to further consider the proposal to grant country Councillors and their wives a free railway trip to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reckless Motoring. London, Monday night
A wealthy lumberman, at Seattle, has been sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for having killed a child while recklessly motoring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preventing Railway Accidents
Mr. James Kriss, a Gundagai blacksmith, has invented an apparatus which he claims will minimise the danger of railway accidents similar to the Braybrook disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Commissioners. Deputation at Wellington
The N.S.W. Railway Commissioners paid their annual visit of inspection to Wellington on Tuesday afternoon, and a deputation from the Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Practical Points for Motorists
Long, heavy springs are better than short light ones. Don't make a practice of exlutch-slipping. Some clutches will stand it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mustard and Cress. the Bridge of Size
The assumption that the people of North Sydney wish the Government to build a bridge over tho harbour or dig a tunnel underneath it is an assumption…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Practical Points for Motorists
Long, heavy springs are better than short light ones. Don't make a practice of exlutchslipping. Some clutches will stand it,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Commissioners Visit Dubbo
THE Railway Commissioners visited Dubbo on Tuesday, ad inspected the sheds, yards, &c. They then proceeded to Coonamble, returning on Wednesday to Dubbo, where…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Braybrook Railway Disaster
AT the Braybrook railway disaster inquiry the other day, William D'Arcy, a guard on the Bendigo train, deposed that the train was approaching Sunshine station at the rate…
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