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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

235 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 12

Railway Companies at War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 5

Papers by the last English mall, up to 18th May stated that the cordial understanding between Great Bri[?] and France has led to the inauguration of a…

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Railway Ambulance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

IT is anticipated (says the Goulburn Post) that the Triggs First Aid Cup at present held by Mr. A. Clarke…

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Opening of the Sydney Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

THE formal opening of the Central Railway Station for traffic took place on Saturday morning,when the Premier opened the ticket office with…

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[?] Road

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

Mr. G. Ryrie, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from Works Dept. Under Secretary:—Sydney, August 2, 1906—Sir,—…

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Bathurst-Sydney, Cycling Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 7

On Friday the handicapper of the League of Wheelmen declared the handicaps for the Wallace Continental road race, from Bathurst to Sydney, a…

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Railway Commissioners’ Bill

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

The Bill to dissolve the present Railway Commission passed through Committee in the Assembly last night. An amendment providing that none of the…

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France Plans a Conquest of the Air. Secret Agent Buys the Wright Aeroplane for The-french War Department

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 3

If the conquest of the air is not soon achieved it will not be the fault of the French aeronauts. As is shown by the following article which…

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Building a Motor Car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 3

Few people realise in viewing the finished product from the modern automobile factory the amount of labour, anxiety, unavoidable delays…

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An Illustrated Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 1

To help the excited traveller to find his or her own seat, which may have been temporarily vacated in a long and o[?]owded train, the Illustrated train has come into…

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Zanzibar’s Sultak. Motors Two Fast

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 5

The [?]ng Sultan of Zan[?]har who is on a visit to London, has so far graduated in the ways of Western civilisation as to [?]re incurred the…

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The Hoodoo. a Railway Sketch

The Age · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

Mr W. Pett Ridge writes in the "Daily Mail" of 26th May:— The men sauntered up and down near the door that was marked in…

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Bathurst to Sydney Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

The biggest event of the year of the kind in the State, the annual road race from Bathurst to Sydney, organised by the Continental Tyre Company and…

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Road Tenders

The Age · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 2

THE following are the lowest tenders for road work recently advertised in our columns:—Old Burra road to Michelago, W. Kelly, £49;…

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Fight Ok the Line. Fierce Struggle in Front of Approaching Train

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 6

A midnight fight on the railway between a guardsman and a policeman, in front of an advancing train, was described. at South-west London. The…

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Railway Commissioners Bill

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 2

The second reading of the Railway Commissioners Appointment Bill was debated in the Assembly, and the debate adjourned. A number of members…

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War Bambool to Melbourne Road Race

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

The anticipations of the Dunlop Rubber Co. of an enormous entry for [?] great annual Australasian road [?] to be field [?]…

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Motor-car Tragedy. Hospital Matron Killed. on a Lonely Road

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 3

A. fatal motor-car accident occurred at Ewhurst, near Hastings, about five o’clock yesterday afternoon, a car be longing to Messrs Skinner, of Hastings,…

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Local News. Queanbeyan-Gudgenby Road

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

Colonel Ryrie, M.L.A., has been notified by the Works Department that, with reference to the petition presented by him hearing the names of Messrs. W. Sullivan,…

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Cheap Railway Excursion

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

THE Railway Department advertises the running of an excursion train to Sydney and intermediate stations at the specially low fares of [?]½d per…

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Sees in a Railway Station. Terrified Porters

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 3

A swarm of angry bees caused a scene if wild commotion at Burgess Hill Railway station, in Sussex, the other morning…

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