£Absent-minded Passengers. Railway Lost Property Sale
Most people are more or less absentminded, when trifles are concerned, but it is hard to conceive that a mother would carry her baby off a train, and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
301 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 8 of 16
Railway Extension
The local Progress Association have been instrumented in having the railway extended another 500 yards from the present terminus. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Here and There the Collie Railway
The formation of the Talbragar Coboco-Collie Railway League has galvanised the Gilgandra folk into new life. For some time they considered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bombay Railway Strike
Reuter's Bombay correspondent states that the railway strikers rioted, damaging the rails, and held up trains. Military assistance had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane Crash
An Avro planer piloted by Stanley Harper, and carrying two passengers, crashed at Goulburn on Friday. The machine was badly damaged, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General Railway Refreshment Rooms
The secretary of the Progress Association at Dubbo has been informed by the Railway Commissioners that the proposal to provide railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Talebagar-collie Railway
The Government is to he congratulated on its quick work la connection with the movement to construct a railway from Talbragar to Collie, via…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatality on the Railway Body Frightfully Mutilated
On Saturday last a ganger on the railway named J. Jarvis, while going over his length, found the body of a man in a frightfully mutilated state on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Matters. MR. W. G. Ashford at Work
Mr. W. G. Ashford, M.L.A., has received the following communications from the Secretary, Railway Commissioners:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Mechanics Institute
Mr. Comming, representing the Railway Commissioners, visited Wellington yesterday, with a view to interviewing the local railway employees in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cobar Train Service
If anyone applies at the Sydney railway booking offers for a ticket to cobar, and of course has the necessary rex pectaria, he will be given the priced…
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"I am glad to see that Dubbo is forging ahead. It has always been a [?] town, which is now almost a city, and it will be a much greater city…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Talbragar-Ci[?]a Railway. Routes to Be Inspected
At the quarterly general meeting of the Dubbo had District Progress Association on Tuesday night the visit of Mr. Edwards, Inspecting Euginoor of…
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The railway department announces in this issue the miming of cheap trains to Sydney in connection with the visit of the Prince of Wales. Handbills…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stranded Motorists
There was not a gallon of petrol obtainable in Sydney yesterday. Hundreds of cars were idle. The I wo big supply companies stated that they were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coboco Railway
Mr. Charles Edwards, inspecting surveyor of the Railway Department returned to Dubbo on Saturday and that evening preceded to Sydney, after the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatality Near Trangie. Railway Ganger Run Over by Engine
Additional particulars of the railway fatality on Saturday night show that the accident happened near Cathundral, about eight miles this side of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mendooran Roads
At a meeting of the Mendooran Progress Association remarks that were other than complimentary to the Cobbera Shire Council were made by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Obley Bridge
Recently on the recommendation of the roads overseer, the Talbragar S[?] Council decided to close the bridge a' Obley and make a crossing some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Making Machinery
There will be placed before the Municipal Council at a meeting on Monday night a recommendation that £5000 be borrowed to cover the cost of a…
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