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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

173 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 9

Terrible Railway Disaster

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 November 1901 · page 2

Further particular have come to hand in connection with the terrible railway collision which occurred near Walloway Siding South Australia, on Saturday. It…

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Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 November 1901 · page 2

A goods train which left Quirindi on Wednesday afternoon for Sydney, met with a serious mishap whilst climbing Black Hill. The engine was carrying 140lb of steam,…

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Roads Maintenance Men

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1901 · page 2

The State Minister for Works has had under consideration the question of what attitude the Department should adopt with regard to the matter of repairing picks and…

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Bicycle Road Race

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 2

The Braidwood Bicycle Club have arranged for a road race to-morrow afternoon, starting at 4 o’clock sharp from the Albion Hotel corner. The course, if it may…

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Sailors Robbed on Ratcliff Railway

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 1

The term 'knocker out' does not refer to a human. It is a slang term for a cooling draught, a few drops of which adroitly sprinkled in a person's drink will…

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The Railway

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 2

Our readers will recollect that the matter of the Braidwood-Tarago railway was referred to the Public Works Committee on November 29 last year. After enquiry the…

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Road Race

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1901 · page 2

The Braid wood Bicycle Club held a road race on Saturday over a course extending from the Albion corner to the 3-mile post on the Araluen roads and returning. There…

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Dynamiting a Train

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1901 · page 4

The northbound overland express train on the Southern Pacific wan held up by two masked men 15 miles south of Eugene at 3 o'clock on the morning of October 23 (a wire…

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The Clyde Road Traffic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

THERE is a amount of traffic on the Clyde road at the present time, (says the Dispatch). which is caused by the number of teams from the Braidwood, Queenbeyan…

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Railway Mishap

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

ON Saturday night the train left Queanbeyan at the usual hour, but after a run of a fow miles returned to the station, owing to 'something going wrong with the engine…

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Road Race

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1901 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon another road race was run off under the auspices of the local Bicycle Club, the course being from the Albion corner to the 3-mile post on the…

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Train Wrecking by the Boers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 December 1901 · page 4

Corporal McGrath, of the Royal Australian Artillery, who recently returned from South Africa, had a thrilling experience of the wrecking of a train by the Boers on June…

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Short Story a Train Adventure

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 December 1901 · page 5

RAGLAN was having a hard time of it, and when the fact occurred to him, as it did many times a day, be grew sentimental and self-pitiful…

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