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Railways, roads & transport, 1923

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Motor Bus Mishaps Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 2

A fully loaded motor has and a motor car collided in Parramatta Road this morning and one of the one passengers was slightly injured…

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Rebels Active Big Raid at Sligo Serious Railway Destruction

The Daily Express · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 1

Armed rebels set fire to S[?] railway station, which they completely destroyed. Engines were run towards the Deep-water berth…

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Wagga Motor Ambulance

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 2

Under the scheme Instituted by the present Minister for Health (the Hon. C. W. Oakes) the Government is to give financial support to a movement for the…

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Muttama Beats Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 4

Yesterday an all day match was played at Muttama, with a Railway team from Cootamundra, when Muttama got the victory by 105 to 51…

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Motor and Milk-cart a Man Killed Melbourne

The Daily Express · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 1

Henry Phillip Millman, aged 64, a widower, of Dandenong Road, Oakleigh, was driving a milk waggon near the intersection of Dandenong…

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Motor and Jinker Young Girl Badly Hurt Melbourne

The Daily Express · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 1

Ellen Craig, a 9-year-old girl, living in Clive Street, Hawthorn; was driving a jinker containing two other girls, along Toronga Road yesterday…

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Suggested Train Alteration

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

The Leeton Progress Association is endeavoring to bring about a change in the service. At present the mails and passengers for Leeton travel from…

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Ireland. Train-wreckings Again Conditions in the South London, January 15

The Daily Express · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 1

The rebels continue their relentless firing and wrecking campaign against the railways. A passenger train from Sligo to…

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Motor Car Overturns. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 1

Eight persons were hurt, one seriously, when a motor overturned on the Heddon Greta rood on Saturday. Arthur Wells, assistant clerk of the Cessnock…

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Motor Ambulance Service. Initial Steps at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

last night the Mayor of Wagga (Ald. H. Oates) occupied the chair at meeting held for discussion of the matter of establishing a motor…

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Motor Ambulance

The Daily Express · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

There was only a small attendance at the public meeting last night to discuss the proposal to establish a motor ambulance in Wagga. Mr…

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Train and Sulky. Accident at Milbrulong. Lockhart

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 2

This morning a peculiar accident occurred at Milbrulong. As the train was entering the railway station Misses Grace and Joan Rawson, of Riverhall…

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Ireland. Rebels Very Active Train Wrecking Continues London January 15

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 1

Four executions wore carried our at Roscrea and one at Carlow, the condemned men having been convicted of possessing arms…

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Women Rebels. Riot in Mount Joy Prison. Great Destruction on Railways. LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 2

The "Daily Mall's" Dublin correspondent states the authorities have decided to put women Republications on the same footing as men, withdrawing their…

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Disaster Feared Train in Flood Waters January 17

The Daily Express · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 2

It is feared that a grave disaster has overtaken the mall train on the run to Colombo from Jaffna. A section of the northern area is seriously…

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Ireland. Railway Ruined. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 2

The rebels wiped out the whole of the West Clare railway, 27 miles long. There were concerted attacks on stations and whole sections of the lines…

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Railway Returns Wagga’s Traffic Increasing

The Daily Express · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 2

The returns for Wagga Railway Station last month show a substantial increase over those for the corresponding period of 1921…

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Miraculous Escape. Bridge Dynamited. But Train Jumps Chasm. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 1

How a Dublin mail train, with 200 passengers, leapt a yawning chasm and miraculously escaped destruction, has just come to light…

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Suggested Train Alteration

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

The Leeten Progress Association [?] endeavoring to bring about a [?] in the noon service. At present the [?] passengers for…

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