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Railways, roads & transport, 1909

198 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 10

Heaviest Bridge Span

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1909 · page 7

The heaviest independent span of any bridge has just been completed over the River Wear at Sunderland. This bridge has two decks, the upper carrying the…

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The Railway the Country Wants. the Pioneer Light Line for Mountainous Country

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1909 · page 2

The 2[?]th gauge railway line running from Goondah station to the Barren Jack weir is an object lesson to engineers throughout Australia…

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Eden to Bega Proposed Railway

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1909 · page 4

MR HANNA, Under- Secretary in the Public Works Department, has given evidence before the Public Works Committee in reference to this line. He…

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Heaviest Bridge Span

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 3

The heaviest Independent span of any bridge has just been completed over the River Wear at Sunderland. This bridge has two decks, the upper carrying, the…

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Per Motor to see the Fight

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 1

A PARTY of local sports had arranged to proceed per motor car to see the Burns-Johnson disagreement. One of the party being…

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Controlling the Motor. Meeting at Mansion House

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon, writes the "Dally Telegraph" of October 28, the Lord Mayor presided at a conference of delegates from a large number of…

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Jervis Bay Tramway

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

The member for Allowrie, Mr. Mark Morton, has received the following letter from the secretary of the Parliamentary Public Works…

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Eden-Bega Railway

The Bega Budget · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 6

The Eden-Bega railway proposal was considered by the Public Works Committee on Wednesday…

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Jervis Bay Tramway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 6

The Public Works Committee on Tuesday last gave further consideration to the proposal to construct a line of tramway from Bomaderry to Jervis Bay…

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The Eden-Bega Railway

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 2

The members of the Public Works Committee will make a flying trip through the Bega and surrounding districts in the course…

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Eden to Bega Railway

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 2

The following itinerary of the Public Works Committee has been forwarded to the Budget by the Chief Secretary, the Hon. W. H…

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Road to Tourist Resort

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 4

The Jamberoo Council has written to Mr. Morton, M.P., asking him to use his influence to secure a further of £50 to complete the road to…

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Jervis Bay Tramway

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 6

The member for Allowri, Mr Mark Morton, has received the following, letter from the Secretary of the Parliamentary Public Works…

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Proposed Eden Bega Railway

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 4

At in reference to the estimates put forward by Messrs Hanna and Hutchison, two eminently positioned officials, and which were recently laid…

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An Elephant on the Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 10

The wild elephants in Siam occasionally do a considerable amount of damage, but rarely do they go to the length of stopping trains. Still, this has…

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Tramway to the Bay

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 4

At a meeting of the executive of the Bomaderry-Jervis Bay Tramway League in Nowra, presided over by Mr T. M. Thomson…

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Bega-Eden Railway. Public Works Committee on Tour

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 2

The Parliamentary Public Works Committee who are at present on a tour of inspection of the proposed route for the Bega to Eden railway, arrived in Bega…

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Eden-bega Railway Agitation

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1909 · page 4

Here we depict a likeness of those gentleman who advocatod a railway to the port of Twofold Bay ovor a quartor-of-a-century ago: Top Row: (Reading from left to right.)--R. SHARPE, general dealer, horse owner, etc. R. CURTIS, one time batcher in Bega, and pr viously, in…

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The Motor-car Crime. £11.000 Squandered

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 6

Considerable light was thrown, on November 18, on the double tragedy which look place in a mofor cab in Uper Montague street, Bloomsbury, on…

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From Tory to Aeroplane

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 6

" One day in 1878 our father brought home a toy called a helicoptere, made of bamboo, cork, and Paper ; two tiny propellers were…

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