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South Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

142 stories in South Coast's papers · page 5 of 8

The Motor Eye. Temporary Blindness

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 7

Dr. Mirovitch, of the French Academy, has been giving special attention to the eyes of automobilists and cyclists. He finds the curved position of the…

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Cyclist Killed. Collision with a Motor-car

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 7

The Portsmouth road at Esher was the scene of a sad accident on Saturday evening, 24th June, as the result of which Mrs. Amelia. Tesstingiey, aged thirty-nine,…

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Tramways Versus Trains

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 7

A Birmingham correspondent of tho London " Daily News " says there is a keen competition going on in the Black Country between trams and…

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Motor Omnibuses. the London Example

Southern Star · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 3

For the moment the proprietors of motor -omnibuyses should reaping a golden harvest. The takings of the latest types of these…

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Kaiser Races a Train. at Sixty Miles an Hour

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 2

The Kaiser's recent journey from Hangover to Hamburg, a distance of about 120 miles, was accomplished in about three and a half hours…

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Maxims for Motorists. Pedestrians Who Know Nothing

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 2

"I should like to see horses and even pedestrians carrying head and tail lights when using the roads at night time," said Mr Henry Sturmey, the veteran…

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The Marquis's Hint. Motorists Shot At

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 3

It will be remembered (wrote "Lloyd's Weekly" on July 16) that a short time ago the Marquis of Queensberry applied at one of the…

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A Useful Motorist. Acts As Postman

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 2

Capt. Hughes Morgan, of Pontwell hall, Breconshire, has performed a notable feat in rescuing the Royal Hail. The Great Western Railway Company recently…

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Railway Champagne

Southern Star · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 3

Upwards of L3240 worth of champague—the property of the Great Northern Railway Company—was sold at Christie's, the sale being presumably…

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Editorial Notes. North Coast Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 1

IN the Assembly, on Wednesday last, the Minister for Works submitted a resolution to the effect that it was expedient…

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Fast Railway Runs. Chicago New York

Southern Star · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 3

The racing trains between Chicago and New York am exciting much interest. They make runs over very long distances, averaging over a mile a…

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The North Coast Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 10

A Lismore meeting recently condemned the three members repersenting Tenterfield, Ballina, and Lismore, for having supported the North Coast railway, and a resolution…

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Mail Train Wrecked

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

A mail train has been wreaked at R[?]Don. Russia, 27 persons being killed and [?] injured…

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Buggy Smashed by a Train

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 4

A wire from Melbourne states that a terrible accident, resulting in the loss of three lives, occurred at 7.30 o'clock on Thursday evening…

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The North Coast Railway. Creasing the Fat Pig

Southern Star · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 4

MR. C. G. JOHNSON, a well-kown metropolitan journalist, writes as follows in the Daily Telegraph" of the 21st September:—…

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North Coast Railway

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 6

A Lismore meeting recently condemned the three members representing Tenterfield. Ballina and Lismore for having…

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Tramway-car’s Leap. Over a to Feet Cliff Passengers’ Marvellous Escapes

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 2

An accident occurred on the late of Thanet Tramways on August 9th. making the third of a serious nature on the line [?] it was opened…

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The Beginning of Bridge

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 7

In Sir Horace Rumbold's "Recollections of a Diplomatist" (1892) the author, describing society In St. Petersburg as it was a few years after the…

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Electric Train Disaster. Twenty Killed

Southern Star · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 4

A railway disaster, by which some twenty people lost their lives under the most dreadful circumstances occurred on the evening of July 24, on the electric…

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Spring Motor. New Device For Driving Household Sewing Machines

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 6

A new manufacturing concern recently organized at Montreal with a capital of $500,000, undertakes to manufacture a spring motor, as well as…

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