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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

210 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 11

Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Age · Friday 18 August 1905 · page 4

ROAD Riders who intend competing in either the Warrnambool-Melbourne or Go[?]lburn Sydney Road Contests should take note of the fact that entries for the big N. S. W…

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Cycling Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1905 · page 2

A bicycle road race, from Bathurst to Sydney, in winch a large number of cyclists from all states competed, came off on Saturday. The interest in the…

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Cycling & Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 2

George Farley, the Australian cycling champion, now on a racing trip to Europe in company with Ellegaard and Rutt, has made his first public…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Age · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 3

THE 24 hours world's motor track record established in America a few weeks back by the oldtime English crack G. G. Wridgway has not been allowed to stand long. No…

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The Railway Jubilee

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 2

TOWARDS the end of September the jubilee of the New South Wales railways, which is also that of the Australian railways, will be celebrated…

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Cycling & Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 2

The 24 hours world’s motor track record established in America a few, weeks back by the oldtime English racing crack C.G. Wrideway, has not been…

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Kaiser Races a Train

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 August 1905 · page 2

The Kaiser's recent journey from Hanover to Hamburg, a distance of about 120 . miler, was accomplished in about three and a half hoars. Owing to the rain the Emperor had intended to travel in…

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Strange Railway Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

Owing to the driver of an engine on a pleasure railway in the Isle of Man failing, a train was wrecked, twelve persons being badly injured…

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Fast Railway Runs. Chicago and New York

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 5

The racing trains between Chicago and New York are exciting much, interest. They make runs over very long distances averaging over a mile a…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Age · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 3

PAR[?]ICULARS are to hand of the opening day's racing at the World's Cycle Championship Meeting held in Antwerp (Holland) on Sunday July 16th. The racing which was…

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Cycling & Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2

Particulars are to hand of the opening day’s racing at the world’s cycle championship meeting held in Antwerp (Holland) on Sunday, July 16th. The…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Age · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 3

FURTHER particulars to hand gives the result of the concluding two days' racing at the World's Cycle Championship Meeting held at Antwerp in July. The Blue Riband…

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Cycling & Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 2

Some wonderful speeds were accomplished by motor cars and motor cycles at opening race meeting held on the new Straightaway automobile racing…

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Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated, Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Tuesday, September 12, 1905. Cheap Excursion Trains and Railway Fares

The Age · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 2

ON Friday night last, one of those cheap excursion trains to the Metropolis which, of late years, have come to be regarded as a necessary…

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Goulburn Road Race

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 15 September 1905 · page 2

The acceptances for the Goulburn to Sydney road race on Saturday include: Goulburn : T. Larcombe, J. Kingsland .J. Todkill, W.Larcombe, G. R. Tumbers,…

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The Marquis’s Hint. Motorists Shot At

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 September 1905 · page 3

It will be remembered (wrote “Lloyd’s Weekly” on July 16) that a short time ago the Marquis of Queensberry applied at one of the…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Age · Friday 15 September 1905 · page 4

THAT genial and ubiquitous motor tourist, Mr. Chas. J. Glidden writes to say that he proposes to leave Boston early in October for Egypt. After touring this country he…

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Goulburn to Sydney Road Race

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 2

THE annual cycling road nice from Goulburn to Sydney, promoted by the Dunlop Tyre Company, was held on Saturday. The weather was bitterly…

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Cycling & Motoring Notes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 2

That genial and ubiquitous motor-tourist, Mr. Chas. J. Glidden, writes to say that he proposes to leave Boston early in October for Egypt, After…

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Traveller. a Railway Story

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 4

There is a romantic story in several chapters being carried on near the main line of the Santa Fe Railway in the United States, between Topeka and Emporis, and…

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