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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

210 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 11

Railway Strikes General

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

Railway strikes are general at Lodz, Saratoff, and in other districts…

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Motor Reliability Trial

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

Melbourne, Saturday Night—The Dunlop motor trial, Sydney to Melbourne, finished this afternoon, a great crowd being In the street to meet the…

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

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

Banjo Patterson, the well-known Australian writer, took more than a passing interest in the Dunlop Motor Contest. He was aboard Mr. J. N. Arnott’s 20 [?]…

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The Motor Car Contest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 2

There was extraordinary excitement along the route on Friday from Albury to Euroa streets of Wodonga, Chiltern, Benalla, and the small settlements were crowded, and the overlanders were…

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The Roads

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 3

The recent flood has left our roads in a very rough state. In places the gravel has been washed clean away, which…

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Road Tenders

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

NEARLY every tenderer for road work in this district is on THE LEADER's subscribers' list; and the Government Printer's refusal to…

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The Train Was Late Though

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

Mrs. Outskirts—I hear your husband indulges in racing. Mrs. Suburbs—Oh, yes ! “Did he ever win ?”…

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A New Motor-car

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

A motor-car has recently been shown in London which seems to be a distinct advance upon many of the vahicles of this sort which have previously been seen,…

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At a Railway Station

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 1

A railway booking clerk was taken down rather neatly the other day [?] handed as change to [?] a sixpence with a hole in [?]…

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That Railway Post Box

The Age · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 3

AT last night's Council meeting Alderman Knox was apparently prepared to take another step in the direction of securing for the residents at the railway station an…

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

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 3

The pioneer motor contest of Australasia was carried to a successful but inconclusive issue last week. The primary object of the competition has been…

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Brindabella. Road Improvements

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 1

LEE'S SPRINGS have undergone such a sudden change within these last few days that any one travelling over the mountain would wonder…

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The Baker's Lane Tramway. Promotion of T. Nolan, jun. a Complete Story

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 2

DOWN Baker's Lane the Consolidated Traction Company ran one tramcar a day, and the car a…

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The First Railway in China

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 4

It seems that a syndicate of merchants and others interested in developing the trade of China were moved to build a railway from…

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CYCLING & Motoring Notes. [?]lop Pneumatic Tyre Co. of Australia Melbourne.)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 2

The deciding competition to determine the winner of the recent Dunlop Reliability Motor Contest from Sydney to Melbourne, and which resulted in 7…

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Suicide on the Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 March 1905 · page 4

At the Wollongong railway station on Wednesday morning a man named William Sandford Miles jumped in front of the engine of the train arriving from Sydney at 10.40…

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A Motor-plough

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 1

Great things are anticipated of a new method of land culture by means of a motor-plough the invention of Mr Gatling, whoso inventive genins is hotter known to…

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At the Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 1

The scene was a railway station, and the excursion was due out five minuted. One carriage was labelled 'Engaged,' and in it sat a four-daced woman of about…

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Nervous Railway Engineers

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 1

A London police official gives an interesting reminiscence of the early days of railway management in Ireland. He was travelling over a new line in the western section of…

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How the Romans Built Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 1

An authority on road construction says that the Romans made their main roads to last for ever. They were composed of siliceous and calcareous materials, and were far…

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