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Railways, roads & transport, 1902

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Big Bush Fire. Greht Destruction. Homes Burned Out. Stock Grizzled to Death. Haystacks, Crops and Machinery Destroyed. a Race for Life. a School and a Bridge Burned Down. 300,000 Acres of Grass and Miles of Fencing Gone

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2

WHAT has proved to be the most destructive bash fire ever known in these parts raged on Friday and Saturday just between wantabadgery and…

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Border Railway Proposals

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2

At a well attended meeting of tho local Farmers' Union, held on Saturday night, it was resolved to write to the Berrigan Fanners' Union and ask it to support the…

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A Darling Maiden. Leaps From a Train. to Meet Her Soldier Lover

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 6

That she might not be separated from her soldier sweetheart. Eugenia Montejo, a pretty girl of 17 years, jumped from a car window of the Los Angelos…

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Railway Employment

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4

A number of the railway men apparently are not in sympathy with the recent agitation for a reduction of hours. It is known to the Commissioners that many of the…

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Killed on a Railway Engine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 4

At Orange on Wednesday.—An inquest was held before the Coroner and a jury on the body of William Bone, fuelman, who was yesterday afternoon crushed between a…

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Wyalong-hillston Railway

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 14

The following is the full text of the debate on the Wyalons-Hillston Railway in the Assembly on the 18th December:—…

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The Pope's Railway Carriage

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 16

There is a gilded private car with a brief but interesting history laid up at Civita Vecchia, Italy, and the chances are that it will never be used again…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Serious Railway Accident. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 2

Charles Emmett, aged 34, residing at St. Elmo, was thrown off the step of a breakvan at Darling Harbor this morning. His right hand was terribly crushed,…

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A Bridge Wanted

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 2

A Tooma correspondent calls attention to the sad necessity for a bridge over the Murray at Towong Crossing. He says:— " It is sadly needed; four or five people…

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Big Bush Fire. Great Destruction. Homes Burnt Out. Stock Grizzled to Death. Haystacks, Crops, and Machinery Destroyed. a Race for Life. a School and Bridge

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 3

What has proved to be the most destructive bush live ever known in these parts raged on December 27 and 28 between Wantabadgery and…

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Uranquinty. Railway Station Assistant

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 3

A well-attended meeting was held at Ford's Hotel on Saturday evening last, the business being to urgs on the Railway Commissioners the necessity of providing…

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A Burglar's Tragic End. Sensational Incident at a Railway Station. Youth Shot Dead by the Stationmaster. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 2

Early yesterday morning a sensational and tragic incident ocourred at the Guild-ford railway station, 16 miles south of Sydney, a young man who had forcibly…

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Trying to Save His Wife a Man Killed at a Railway Crossing. True Woman Escapes Uninjured. Katoomba

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 9 January 1902 · page 2

A very old resident, Mr. Robert Mulholland was killed to-night by the fish train arriving here about 8 o'clock. His wife had carelessly walked on to the…

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Steel Railway Trucks. Supersede Wooden Ones

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1902 · page 4

ONE of the new ideas in raliway equipment which the English railway officials who have recently been touring America will take back with them to England…

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A Girl’s Adventure with a Motor

Coolamon Echo · Friday 10 January 1902 · page 5

At last can look Kirby Whitehouse in the face, for fate has made things even, and he is now the party at fault. You remember my writing you about…

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A Girl's Adventure with a Motor

The Junee Democrat · Friday 10 January 1902 · page 4

At last. I can look Kirby"Whitehouse in the face for fate has made things oven, and he is now the party at fault. You remember My Weining you abon…

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Railway Holocaust. Over 80 Persons Burned to Death. Scenes of Horror

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 6

Over 80 persons were killen and 125 injured in a terrible accident which occurred at 7.30 on the 27th November [?] the Wabash railway at Seneca,…

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Railway Holecaust. Eighty Persons Burnt to Death

The Temora Star · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from New York to the London papess on November 28 said.: -- Over eighty persona were killed and 125 injured in a terrible accident…

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Venezuela and Germany Railway Difficulty Settled. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 January 1902 · page 2

Advices from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, state that the incident affecting Germany's relations with the republic has been settled…

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The Transcontinental Railway

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 January 1902 · page 4

Speaking at the opening of the new road from Claremont (W.A.) to the sea, Sir John Forrest said that he would do his best to have the transcontinental…

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