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Railways, roads & transport, 1926

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Car and Train Collide Three Injured Mackay (Q.)

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 1

The Mackay (Q.), sugar train dashed into a car at a lovel crossing near here, and carried it fully [?] yards along the line. The car was…

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Motor Lorry Destroyed

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Williams, of Upper Tamora, had the misfortune to have one of his motor lorries destroyed on the Mirrool Road by fire. The driver,…

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Country Motorists Must Wait for Licenses. Absurd Centralisation. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 2

Considerable inconvenience is caused to country motorists, through their having to obtain renewals of drivers' licenses from the Traffic Office in…

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Boy Killed by Motor Bus

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 3

Robert William Hoysted, aged 10, of South Kensington, was fearfully injured when he was run over by a motor 'bus, yesterday. His skull, both thighs,…

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Motors Collide Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 1

A motor car and motor cycle and side car collided in Anzac Parade, Kensington, to-day. George Case driver of the motor cycle, suffered…

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Link with Early Days First Railway Recalled London, January 2

The Daily Express · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 1

Mrs. Reginald Dykes-Marshall, aged 83, died at Keswick. Her mother was an only daughter of the late Lord ' Fitzroy, an early Governor of…

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Euroley Bridge Project Narandera Not Opposed to Proposal "The 'Irrigator's' Vitriolic Attack. From the Narandera "Argus"

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

The article reprinted elsewhere from the "Murrumbidgee Irrigator," and the Information contained therein will come as n surprise to the…

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Motoring Obscure and Obvious Cooling System Defects

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 4

Although we have from time to time alluded in these notes to some of the faults which may crop up now and then in the cooling system of the…

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Motor Fatality Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day Mervin McCarthy, motor driver, was charged with having feloniously s[?] Thomas Brunton, also with having on…

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Items of News Motor Smash Victims

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

The condition ot Messrs. Eric Coleman and Henry Harris, who were seriously injured in the motor smash at North Wagga on January 26, has been…

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Suggested Railway to Argoon. a Iecemeal Parochial, Proposition. a Broad Scheme of National Development Should Be Substituted

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

The writer of the is cheaply cynical at our alleged want of geographical knowledge, but before we have done we hope to convinces him…

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Griffith Motor Track. a Bad Smash. Concussion of Brain

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 3

On a motor bike travelling at about 60 miles per hour—a cart rut —a smash—result Wilfred Collins in Grifflith district hospital…

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Diesel Motors

The Daily Express · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

The trade newspapers report that in order to make use of the Germania shipbuilding yards at Kiel, which have been lying idle practically since…

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Harbour Bridge Ganger Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

During Wasting operations at Messrs. Dorman Long & Coy's bridge works, at Milson's Point to-day, a large piece of rock, which had been blown up, fell on…

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Serious Mishap Car and Motor Train Collide MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

A motor car and rail motor-train collided at a level crossing on the Point Nepean road, near Frankston, this morning…

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Goods Train Derailed Brisbane

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 1

A message from Brisbane says that the Rockhampton bound goods train was derailed between Nambour and K[?]angoor this morning. One of the…

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Cloudburst at Junee Buildings, Fences, and Railways Wrecked Main Line Traffic Blocked at Harefield 220 Mail Train Passengers Return to Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

A cloudburst flooded the country between Junee and Harefield late yesterday afternoon. Junee residents state it was the most terrific storm ever experienced in the town…

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Trains Disorganised Through Flooded Line Albury Mail Train 10 Hours' Late

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

Heavy rains yesterday caused the Southern Line to be flooded both at Haref[?]ld and Marinna. The latter is between Illabo and Junee. The water…

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Torrential Rain Junee-harefield District Badly Inundated Train Services Held Up by Serious Washaways Storms in England and in Europe Are Unabated; Much Distress Reported

The Daily Express · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 1

A washaway near Harefield following upon a particularly heavy storm in the Junee and surrounding district, caused a serious…

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