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Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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Coolamon-Currawarna Railway. League’s Work

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 7 February 1908 · page 4

The Secretary of the Coolamon Currawarna Railway League compiled the following information from the evidence forms…

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The Deadly Motor. a Woman Killed. Driver Attempts Suicide. Crowd Restrained by Soldiers

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 7 February 1908 · page 3

A fatal motor-car accident had an extraordinary sequel in the Riviera di Cheaia yesterday (wrote tho correspondent of the London “Daily…

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New Railway Office

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 2

A new office connected with the locomotive department of the railway will be established at Goulburn. Mr. E. A. Loughrey, district outdoor…

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Stanwall Park Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 2

In connection with the Stanwell Park railway accident, the jury found that it was due to a wheel slipping on an axle…

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Train Wrecker Gets Seven Years

The Worker · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 5

Seven years' imprisonment was the punishment allotted Walter Mackley at Horsham (V.) for placing timber on the railway line, "with the intention of doing…

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Serious Colliery Tramway Accident. a Driver Dies

The Worker · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 5

The South Bulli (N.S.W.) jetty was the scene of a serious accident last week, and following which a driver, Richard Osborne, 61. dropped dead. An unusually heavy load…

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Sir Henry Colville. Killed Hy a Motor. How It Happened

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1908 · page 4

We (the London "Times" of November 29th) regret to record the death, as the result of a motor-car accident at Frimley on Sunday, of Major-General Sir…

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New South Railway and Tramway Service. Annual Meeting

The Worker · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 19

The annual meeting of the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association was commenced at Sydney Trades Hall on Monday, Mr. M'Guire…

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Sequel to a Motor-car Fatality

The Worker · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 5

Mrs. Sarah Ellen Gillett, widow of Rev. J. W. Gillett, a Paddington (N.S.W.) clergyman, who was run over and killed by a motor-car in St. Kilda (V.), on June 9,…

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Ballarat Tramway Monopoly. Outrageous Working Conditions a Muzzled Press and Council

The Worker · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 8

The conditions under which the Ballarat tramway men work are deplorable. The lines are operated by the Electric Supply Co. of Victoria, a " whelp " of the British…

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Whitton to Ilillston Railway

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1908 · page 3

A project of considerable national importance will soon demand attention at the hands of the Public Works Department. The Minister…

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Motor-car Records

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 22 February 1908 · page 2

New motor-car records have been made at Brooklands in Surrey. For 50, 100, and 150 miles the car averaged 85 miles an hour…

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Railway and Tramway Association. Official Statement

The Worker · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 11

In view of the incorrect statements appearing in the Anti-Labor press as to the reasons for certain drastic action taken by the annual Conference of the Railway and…

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Items of News. Railway Picnic

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 2

Arrangements in connection with the annual railway picnic, to be held on the Wagga Show Grounds on Monday next, are well advanced, and…

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Transcontinental Railway

The Worker · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 5

In their report the engineers who met in Conference to advise the Deakin Government on the survey to bo carried out for the railway route between Port Augusta and…

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Whitton to Hillston Railway

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 2

A project of considerable national importance will soon demand attontion at the hands of the Public Works Department (says the Narandera…

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Mr Stewart and the Railway Deputation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 2

SIR,—After a fortnight's ominous silence Mr Stewart opens fire in reply to my letter of the 31st January. Coming from the uncrowned King of…

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English Railway Travelling. Privately Owned Lines. a List of Grievances

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 3

Alfred Fellows writes in the “Daily Mail” of 24th December an article which shows how, to an ever greater extent than here, the want of…

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Proposed [?] gation Railway

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 6

A largely attended public meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the Council Chambers for the purpose of considering a project…

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Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 2

An engine and sixteen trucks left the line between High Camp and Pyalong yesterday, but nobody was injured…

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