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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

114 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 6 of 6

Train Fatality at Rockdale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 2

The Rockdale railway station was the scene of a fatal accident on Thursday evening, the victim being Fredk, Henry Brawn, 55 years of age. The…

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Russian Cleanliness. Tramps Beauty Bath

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 6

Although a large city, Kazan to-day has probably fewer tramps within its boundaries than any town of like size in the world…

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Plucky Woman Motorist

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 6

Thirty-two automobiles started this morning in the White Mountains contest for the LOO trophy offered by Mr C. J. Glidden…

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The Descent of the Rhone a Road That Marches

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 6

French waterways—those chemins qui merchent, as Michelet calls them—are of infinite charm and diversity. The rapids of the Tarn, with their…

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Tramping Notes. Winchester to Southampton

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 4

Winchester is an easy, old-world place, where the people realise to the full that every day possesses twenty-four good, long hours. There is neither hurry nor…

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Overland Motor Reliability Race

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 2

The competitors in the above text will pass through Bowral this morning en route to Sydney. The contestants finished the fourth stage of the journey at Goulburn last evening. The race has caused…

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Two Tramps. an English Sketch

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 5

It was on the Fosse-Way. Mile after mile the old Roman road stretches across the country from Lindcoln into Devon as straight as the flight…

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The Motor Contest

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1905 · page 2

The Melbourne to Sydney reliability motor contest, which started on Tuesday, was finished on Saturday afternoon, at the gymkhana on the Agricultural Ground,…

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Motor Reliability Contest

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 November 1905 · page 2

The Melbourne to Sydney reliability motor contest, which started on [?]day, was finished on Saturday afternoon at the gymkhana on the Agricultural…

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Motor Cars and Public Safety

Robertson Advocate · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday the Premier, in reply to Mr. Dacey, said it was stated in the press reports of the recent motor car reliability contest from Melbourne…

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The Railway Commissioners

Robertson Advocate · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 2

The relations between the Commissioners have become even more strained than recently over the circumstances connected with the gra[?]ting of a contract to the…

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Railway Excursion to Sydney

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 3

The Railway Department announces in this issue particulars of Special Cheap Excursion train to Sydney on Friday, December 15. The fares will be at the cheap…

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Motor Reliability Contest

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 3

The question as to whether a still farther attempt should be made to decide the individual winner of the Dunlop motor reliability contest from…

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Sandy Creek Bridge

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

At last there seems a probability of the Sandy Creek bridge becoming an established fact. For years it has been agitated for by the residents of Wanganderry, backed up…

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