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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

147 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 8

Goulburn-braidwood Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1904 · page 2

A cyclists’ road race over a distance of 100 miles, from Goulburn to Braid Wood and back will be run on Tuesday, 18th October under the rules of the…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. (Dialup Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australian Melbourne)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1904 · page 4

A motor cycle road race was recently held in South Africa From Pretoria to Johannesburg, a distance of about 45 miles over very rough and hilly roads…

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Accepted Road Tenders

The Age · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 2

THE following are the results of the tenders for road work in the Queanbeyan district which closed at noon yesterday at the Court House:—Queanbeyan to Upper Gundaroo,…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. (Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia, Melbourne)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 4

It is now certain that the bright particular start of the coming eyling racing season in Australasia will be Ellegaard the flying Dane. The liberal offers first…

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Masked Robbers Plunder a Train

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 September 1904 · page 4

America is the home of lawlessness in many forms. But probably the most daring train robbery ever perpetrated in that go-ahead country was the sticking up of an up" the passengers. Several of the latter resisted, but were quickly beaten into submission by the robbers, who used the blunt ends of hatchets as bludgeons…

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Accident on the Braidwood Road

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 September 1904 · page 2

Mr. W. Stafford, 52 years of age, son of Mr. Stalford, of Mundy-street, met with a painful accident on Tuesday evening while lifting [?] from the…

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The Passing of the Roads and Bridges Member

The Age · Friday 30 September 1904 · page 2

SPEAKING at a function, at Hurstville on Monday night, Mr. Carruthers sounded what might be taken as a key to the reform policy. He said that a time had been reached in the…

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CYCLING [?] Motoring Notes (D[?] Tyre Go. of Australia[?] Melbourne)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 4

It appears that Ellegaard, the star of the imported riders for the coming Australian season, could not accept the first offers made [?] by the Summer…

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Goulburn to Braid Wood Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 October 1904 · page 2

Following are the nominations-for the road race to be run from Goulburn to Braidwood and back on October 18 under the auspices of the Western District…

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A Curious Underground Railway

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 October 1904 · page 5

A novel type of electric underground railway for handling postal matter, parcels, and goods has been put in operation in Chicago, U.S.A. A few years ago a…

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The Government and the Road Vote

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 October 1904 · page 2

THE Premier has treated the influential deputation which has this week appealed to him to make better provision for repairing and making roads…

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Motor Racing

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1904 · page 2

A great motor race for the Vanderbilt Cup was held at New York yesterday, Heath an American, representing the Automobile Club of France was the…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1904 · page 4

The long distance motor car undertaken by Messrs. T. Rand, H. C. Bagot and H. B. James from Melbourne to Sydney and back terminated last…

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Goulburn to Braidwood Road Race

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 October 1904 · page 2

Arrangements are now almost completed for the holding of this event on Tuesday, October 18. The secretary reports having been over the course. He found the road in good order, and made all…

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Goulburn- Braid Wood Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 2

There are thirty three acceptances for the bicycle road race on Tuesday next from Goulburn to Braidwood and back. The following are the local men…

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The Railway Commissioners and Farm Produce

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 2

THOUGH giving the N.S.W. Department of Railways every credit for the many concessions they have made in their tariff of charges for the haulage…

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To-day’s Goulburn-Braidwood Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 3

Race from Goulburn to Braidwood and back should excite a good deal of interest. The limit men will be despatched from the Olympic Ground at…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia, Melbourne)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 4

With a view of fostering motoring, and of attracting public attention throughout Australasia to the reliability of the autom[?]ile, and its possibilities…

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Goulburn-Braidwood Road Race

The Age · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 2

THE road-race from Goulburn to Braidwood and back—a distance of about 100 miles—was run on Tuesday. The day was fine, though warm for such a lengthy ride. Twenty nine riders…

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Odds and Ends. No Last Train

The Age · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 1

PORTER (at country railway station, in a weary voice): 'The halt-past nine o'clock train won't start to-night till ten o'clock, and there'll be no last train.'…

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