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Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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Expensive Motor Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

A motor car driver who knocked a lady down in Oxford-street was to-day ordered by the Court to pay her £200 for injuries she sustained…

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Railway Matters

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 3

Members of the local Progress Association and other public bodies availed themselves of the opportunity to represent local requirements to the railway…

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Cable News. Railway Caatstrophe. 33 Casualties. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 5

The Chicago and New York express, while travelling at a speed of 70 miles an hour, struck an open switch at Menton, Ohio, and was derailed. Thirteen…

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Junee to Hay Train Service

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 June 1905 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners paid a Hying visit to Hay. During their brief stay the commissioners were waited upon by the Mayor and aldermen, and Mr. G…

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Railway Smash a Terrible Disaster. Passengers Scalded to Death. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 June 1905 · page 1

A terrible railway disaster occurred yesterday at Mentor, a station on the line, via Lake Shore, between Chicago and New York…

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Proposed Closing of Roads

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 4

The Minister for Lands being of opinion that it is expendient to close the following roads, persons interested are invited to set forth in writing, within one month from…

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The Show Train Service

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 June 1905 · page 2

Some time ago Mr. A. F. D. White, the secretary of the M.P. and A.A., wrote to the Railway Commissioners, [?]ing a complaint which had been…

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Wagga Show Railway Arrangements

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1905 · page 2

The secretary of the M. P. and A. Association (Mr. A. F. D. White) has received a letter from the Acting Secretary for Railway (Mr. J. S…

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A New Road—making Machine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 5

Several Improvements in road machinery are embodied in the new Ohio reversible road machine, built by the Shuart Grader Co., Oberlin, Ohio. They…

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Darlington Point Bridge. the Opening Ceremony. Darlington Point

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

The opening of the magnificent [?]dl [?] bridge over the Murrambidgee at Darlington Point was celebra an on Wednesday in cloud but fine weather…

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Treatment of Tramps in France

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 5

The French peasant has the deepest respect for proprietorship. Against the vagabond, the tramp, the wanderer on the high road his hatred, instinctive, malevolent,…

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Proposed Closing of Roads

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 4

The Minster for Lands being of opinion that it is expedient to close the following roads, persons interested are invited to set forth in writing. within one month from…

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Cycle Road Race

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 2

At an enthusiastic meeting of the Wagga Cycling Club Committee, held in the Commercial Hotel last evening, the date of the forthcoming great road race…

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Railways and Towns

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 2

Requests which the Railway Commissioners could not see their way to grant to Cootamundra, because of their cost and uselessness, they appear to have…

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Darlington Point Bridge the Opening Ceremony

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 4

The opening of the magnificent steel bascule bridge over the Murrumbidgee at Darlington Point was celebrated on Wednesday in cloudy but fine weather…

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Wagga Railway Station

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 2

Many complaints have been made with respect to the inconveniences and discomforts, experienced by railway travellers at the Wagga Railway…

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Proposed Closing of Roads

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 4

The Minister for Lands being of opinion that it is expedient to close the following roads, persons interested are invited to set forth in writing, within one month from…

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Altering a Road

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 4

It is notified that, under the provisions of the 23rd section of the Public Roads Act, the position of part of the reserved road, 150 links wide, within F. H. Dangar and C. F…

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Applications for the Closing and Purchase of Roads

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 4

Application has been made by John Mac-Donald, under the Public Roads Act of 1902, for the closing and purchase of the following roads, and it is intended to close such…

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Killed by a Train. Man Dragged Eighty Yards

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 July 1905 · page 4

A man named John Ryan, aged 55 years, was run over by the evening's train within about three hundred yards of Warracknabeal (Vic.) on Thursday…

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