New Railway Lines Opened
The first section of the Dubbo-Werris Creek railway was officially opened on Monday last, the District Superintendent (Mr. Donnellan) and other officials…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1918
227 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 12
High School Motor Services
Last week we mentioned a proposal, for motor railway services from Narromine and Gilgandra to convey pupils to and from the Dubbo High School--…
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Through the courtesy of Mr. C. J. Wiblin, the relieving station master, we are enabled to give the passenger and goods traffic at Bourke during the…
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Lillian Richards, aged 18, against whom a charge of absconding from the Salvation Army Home at Geelong was preferred, has been remanded so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Stop The Huns Road To Calais And Dunkirk Closed To The Germans Enemy Losses Excessive Anzacs Thrash Turks London, April 15
Sir Douglas Haig reports that the British repulsed attacks from Neteren to Wulverghem. They also repulsed the fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Will Aircraft End the War? Editor of "The Aeroplane" Says "No."
We here in Australia have somehow got the notion into our heads that the supremacy of aircraft has been so clearly demonstrated that it is only a question of time when their use…
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At the end of 1917, there were 17508 cars in use in New South Wales, as against 14175 on December 31 st, 1916. Motor cycles have also…
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Mr. Percy Allan, chief engineer of National and Local Government Construction, paid a visit to Wellington on Saturday morning in connection with…
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We have been favored by the Chief Commonwealth Railway Commissioner with a pamphlet concerning the new Trans-Continental…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trans-Australian Railway. Official Information Concerning the New Line. Article Ii. the Region Traversed.—the Great Nullabor Plain
There is a fascination about these vast open plains different in kind, but quite as great as the fascination of the forest. For 300 miles the…
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In returning a verdict that the death of Charles Albert Eden, on March. 30, had resulted from his having, been accidentally run over by a railway train…
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Recently the Primary Producers' Union made representations to the Railway Commissioners in connection with the disability under which…
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The magnificent extent of the financial, contributions to the money for our soldiers and sailors by the railway and tramway men of New South Wales, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trans-Australian Railway. Official Information Concerning the New Line. Articles Iii. the Region Traversed.—the
At the 605 miles from Kalgoorlie a long "edge" runs north and south across the plain. You descend the slope to a depression 80 feet below,…
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Sir,—On May 9 a trainer left Orange about 4 p.m. by goods train with two racehorses to compete at Dubbo race meeting on two following days, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. a Railway Grievance
Sir,—Through your columns I would like to draw attention to the miserable treatment meted out by the Dubbo railway "officials" to visitors to Dubbo…
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The majority of the pilots in the British Air Force are young men in the early twenties, as it has been found that youth furnishes special qualities…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trans-Australian Railway. Official Information Concerning the New Line. Article Iiii. Animal and Bird Life
The largest native animals on the plain are the dingoes, which establish themselves in the limestione holes and caves, and are fairly…
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A particularly fine new pattern motor tyre is about to be placed on the Australian market by the Dunlop Rubber Company. The new cover is of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to Train
The Forbes mail train from Sydney shortly after 5 o'clock on Wednesday, morning, collided with a goods train just as it closerd the main yards at…
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