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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

144 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 7 of 8

News and Notes the Early Morning Train

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 2

The question of securing the running of an early morning train to Sydney from the southern districts has not yet died out, nor should it be allowed to do so,…

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Moss Vale Council and the Early Train

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 2

At the Moss Vale council meeting on Monday' night Aldernian Leighton-Jones said, in reference to the early morning train, that the progress and tourist…

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Railway Catastrophe

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 October 1904 · page 2

American files received by the R,M.S. Sonoma furnish the following particulars of the great railway accident on September 24 :— . _…

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The Mono Railway

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 26 October 1904 · page 4

It is intended to work the mono-rail line between Manchester and Liverpool by electricity at speeds as high as 110 miles an hour. The engineers have declared that a…

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The Gib-road

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 2

The Mittagodg council at its last meeting received an anonymous postcard from Bowral in reference to a dangerous portion of the Gib Hill. It was decided to attend to the matter, notwithstanding that the…

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Revivalism by Motor General Booth's Tour

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 6

At midnight on August 8th General Booth, the founder and leader of the Salvation Army, left Paddington for Penzance, where he will start on a…

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Motor and Cycle Club

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 2 November 1904 · page 2

A meeting to Gi[?]enss the advisability of forming a district [?] and cycle club will be held at the Grand Hotel, Bowral, next Fridy evening…

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Tragedy In a Train. Man Pound Shot

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 2

What appears to have been a very determined suicide was reported to the Goulburn police on Thursday morning shortly after the arrival of the mail…

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Proposed Motor and Cycle Club

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 2

Only four or five intending members attended the meeting on Friday night last at the Grand Hotel, called for the purpose of forming a motor and cycle club, and it was adjourned until Friday, the 18th…

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The Burragorang Road

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 1

The above road again provided the principal topic for discussion at the usual monthly meeting of the Mittagong Farmers' and Settlers' Association last week…

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Unjust Railway Charges

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 2

"Traveller" writing in the "S.M. Herald " of Monday last brings under notice the great inequality of the charges for the carriage of milk or…

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Killed on the Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 2

The district coroner, Mr. W. J. Board, held a magisterial inquiry on Saturday at Rydal concerning the death of Harry Cooper, aged 24,…

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Railway Collision. Several Passengers Injured

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 2

A railway accident which might have been attended with very serious consequences occurred at Tarago station at 4 o'clock on Wednesday…

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Kangaloon Road Deviation

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 23 November 1904 · page 2

The following official communication in reference to the above has been received by the Hon. W. McGourt from the Public Works Department:—Sir,—With…

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Proposed Motor & Cycle Club

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 23 November 1904 · page 2

A third attempt is being made on Friday night next to [?]y and form a Motor and Cycle [?]ub. The meeting is [?] be held at the Grand Hotel, Bowral, at 7.30 sharp,…

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A Motor-car for £70 Prospects of a Cheap "Run-about"

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 6

The "man of moderate means" will be sorry to bear that for him the prospect of possessing a reliable motor-car is as yet a very faint one…

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Railway Disaster Swiss Tourists Trains. Four Killed; 39 Injured

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 6

The correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" writes from Parts on the 7th September:—Four persons have been killed and…

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B. D. Motor and Cycle Club

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 30 November 1904 · page 2

A meeting for the purpose of forming a district motor and cycle club was held at the Grand Hotel, Bowral, on Friday evening last. There was a fair attendance,…

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Examination of Railway Juniors

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 December 1904 · page 2

some moths age Mr. District Impector Miline of Goulburn to the Railway Institute that something should be done to make a more carnest members of the staff to…

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Larceny in a Railway Carriage

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 3

John O'Brien wag charged at the Goulburn Polios Court on Tuesday with stealing the sum of £15 or thereabouts from the person of James Cole…

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