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Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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Railway Appeal Board

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 2

The board for hearing appeals in the Railway and Tramway Service for those employees who consider themselves in any way aggrieved by the decision of their superior…

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Improvements at Albury Railway Station. Facilitating Shunting Operations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 4

An important improvement is about to be made at the Albury railway station yard which is des'ined to greatly facilitate shunting operations. Under present…

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Railway Station Improvements. Albury

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 2

Extensive and costly work is to be undertaken at the Albury station yard to facilitate the shunting of the passenger trains of both. States. Surveys are now being made for the…

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Telegraphic New South Wales. Tram Fatalities. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 May 1901 · page 2

A couple of tramway fatalities happened last evening. Peter John Rice. aged 64, employed as head proof reader at the Government Printing Office, was swept up by a…

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Telegrams the Late Railway Disaster. Sydney

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 2

The jury have ascribed the derailment of the train at Sydenham to the high rate of speed and defective characteristics of the engine. They added…

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Our Telegrams Sydney, Tuesday. Late Railway Disaster

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1901 · page 2

At the inquest on Herbert Darnley, one of the killed in the late Sydenham railway disaster, the jury returned a verdict of death from accidental "injuries…

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Fatal Railway Accident. a Woman Crushed

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1901 · page 4

Mrs. Alice Blunden, aged 41, was killed in a horrible manner on Monday evening at South Preston while on her way home from Melbourne. She had been in town all…

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Junee [?] Road

Coolamon Echo · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 2

FOR some years the “Democrat” has been directing at ention to the state of this road, and on the occasion of Mr Barnes’ recent visit we again urged the matter…

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Royal Train from Junee to. Coonong

The Junee Democrat · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 2

WE understand that on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Canon's the royal train will be driven from Junee…

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Ways of Living. TRAMPS

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 3

WHETHER it is the consciousness that I possess cowardly eyes ever on the outlook that I don't run against persons I take to be…

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New Road

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

The land described hereunder has been declared, by "Gazette" notice, a public road:—The land uneven in width, covered by the proved extension of Trail-street, from…

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Opened and Dedicated As Public Roads. Young Land District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 6

Part of road from Wallendbeen to Wambat, pariah Wambat, county Harden. Road from Wagga-Wambat Road to Wallendbeen-Wambat Road, pariah…

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A Sal Affair. a Youth Throws Himself in Front of a Train and Is Instantly Killed

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

TOWNS[?] were shocked on Tuesday afternoon, when the rumor ran round town that a youth named George Powell, recently employed as a carter at the…

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The Rock Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

The Bullenbong bridge on The Rock to Lockhart railway line has been completed, and the train will pass over it for the first time to-day. The line is rapidly…

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Hillston Railway. A Large and Important Meeting

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 19

THE meeting convened by the Mayor for the purpose of considering the best means to bring about the construction, of a railway to Hillston…

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Ways of Living. TRAMPS

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 16

WHETHER it is the consciousness that I possess cowardly eyes ever on the outlook that I don't run against persons I take to be…

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Roads Opened and Dedicated As Public Roads. Young Land District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 4

Part of road from Wallendbeen to Wambat, pariah Wainbat, county Harden, Road from Wagga-Wambat Road to Wallendbeen Wambat Road, parish…

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Troops by Train. Experiments Under Service Conditions

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 2

An interesting experiment was undertaken at the Albury railway station on Sunday, on the occasion of all the Queensland, New Zealand, and Now South Wales…

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New South Wales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Sunday. Railway to Hillston

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 2

An important public meeting, attended by most of the landowners and influential persons in the district, was held at Hillston to consider the best means of facilitating…

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The King's New Motor. a Rapid Traveller

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 4

The new motor car now being made at Paris for his Majesty will be a 7 h.p. Gardnor-Serpollet double phacton, light and elegant, and capable should the King be in…

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