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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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The Sket[?]her. Crack Goods Trains. The Fastest Luggage Carriers of English Railways

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 4

The Great Northern Railway Company is an easy first, both in regard to the speed and the number of its merchandise expresses, for this company stands…

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The Speed of Motor Cars

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

The speed at which many motor cars are driven in the thoroughfares of Sydney was strongly commented upon by the magistrate in the Summons…

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Hiring a Motor-car the London Practice

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

For the man who cannot afford the ownership of a car, and does not wish to buy one, there is the alternative of hiring. Hiring a car is quite a simple…

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A Spark from a Train

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

The meeting convened by Mr. Bowyer Smith on Thursday last to consider what action should be taken by sufferers from fires caused by the tourist train on 31st December met again on Saturday…

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A Motor Tragedy End of a Pleasure Party

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6

A large Panhard touring car, containing four men and five women, dashed over a railway embankment at the corner of Jerome avenue and 161st street…

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Railway Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 5

A goods train, when going down the hill from Mittagong towards Balmoral at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, ran off the line. The brakes failed to…

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Special Train Romances This Year's Railway Annals

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 5

In the days when the telephone was a toy and the motor-car an expensive hobby no one, save royalty, ever dreamt of chartering a special railway train. A…

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The Siberian Railway Its Present Condition

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 5

From accounts we have received from a traveller who within the last month passed over the whole of the Siberian railway from Mukden to European…

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Motor-car Dangers Blind Man Gets a License. Magistrate's Severe Comments

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 5

Evidence given in a motor car case heard on 27th October at the Westminster Police Court, will not serve to abate the apprehension with which many people…

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Terrible Railway Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 January 1905 · page 6

On Thursday the Glasgow to London express train, which was following the Leeds to London express, came into collision with the latter at Cudworth…

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Sudden Death in a Train

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 3

On Sunday morning Mr. Ernest William Brown, aged 35, a resident of Devonshire-street, Sydney, was found dead in the mail train at the Moss Vale station…

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Railway Commissicners Disclaim Liability

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 3

Mr. C. W. Bowyer-Smijth has received the following official communication with regaed to the recent bush fires:—" Office of the Railway Commissioners, Sydney, 26th…

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Selling Return Railway Tickets

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 2

At the Goulburn police court on Monday three cabmen were proceeded against for selling the return balves of railway tickets In one case it being a first…

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Selling Return Railway Tickets

Robertson Advocate · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court on Monday three cabmen were proceeded against for selling the return halves of railway tickets. In one case, it being…

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Our Unsatisfactory Railways

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 3

It is well known that the Railway Commissioners offer consignors the choice of two rates. Under one the Commissioners undertake no…

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The Spike an Amateur Tramp

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 6

The following is from a series of papers written in the London "Daily Mail" by Mr Bart Kennedy, entitled on the Road in Winter, or The Dairy of an Amateur…

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Maintenance of Public Roads

Robertson Advocate · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 2

The Full Court in Sydney on Wednesday laid down an important general principle in a case in which the Government was sued in respect of an…

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Motor and Cycle Contest

Robertson Advocate · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 2

The Dunlop Reliability motor and cycle contest, from Sydney to Melbourne, will lake place from the 21st to the 25 instant. The course will…

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Motor Omnibuses for Sydney

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 3

Another proposal for the carriage of passengers from Sidney to Pyrmont and Balmain by the direct route is now proposed, and baa received the approval…

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Motor Reliability Contest

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 2

The Danlop motor relibility contest from Sydney to Melbourne commenced yesterday. A good crowd had assembled at Mittagong to witness the unusual event…

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