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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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The Early [?]ning Train

Robertson Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 2

The pre[?] alter the running of the early morning train from the southern tour[?] district is meeting with a good deal of [?] The Commissioners have been…

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The Early Morning Train

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

With its usual promptness in matters concerning the welfare of the town, the Moss Vale Progress and Tourist Association were not long in taking action with regard…

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Railway Concessions. To the Editor

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

SIR,—Whilst acknowledging the good work the Tourist Association has done in advertising Mittagong as an ideal place wherewith to spend a holiday, and at the…

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Killed on the Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

It same as a shock to Mosa Vale people to learn that Mrs. Esther Evant, wife of Mr. Henry Evens, district fire insurance agent, of Argyle street, Moss Vale, had been fatally…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Robertson Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

Mrs. Eather Eyans, wife of Mr. Henry Evans, district fire insurance agent, of Moss Vale, was fatally injured on the [?] line at Guildford on Saturday [?]…

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Shocking Tram Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 2

Shortly after 11 o'clock on Wednesday a shocking tram accident occurred at Randwick, resulting in the death of a young man named James Ambrose Hibberson…

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The Sunken Train. an American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 5

Further information falls to lessen the horror of the Atlantic City disaster, or materially to reduce the death list. At noon to-day fifty-one dead…

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Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 6

A minor named Robert Fenwick, aged aged about 33, was killed on the East Greta railway on Friday night at Heddon Greta. Fenwick, who was a…

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Flying Leap from a Train

Robertson Advocate · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 2

A young woman named Connors, a domes tic employed by Mr. H. C. Fowler Exeter, was the cause of considerable excitement at the Moss Vale and Exeter railway stations…

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Wombeyan Caves Road. Not a National Work

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1907 · page 2

The Nattai and Wingecarribee councils have been congratulating themselves that they had a camber of roads proclaimed national works in their respective shires…

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American Railway Disaster

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 February 1907 · page 2

An electric train of the New York Central Company's fell down an embankment in Bronx Park. The accident was apparently due to the high speed at which the train…

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Tourist Roads

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

Just now when the Nattai Shire Council is so greatly concerned about the Wombeyan Caves road the following message from Lithgow, which appeared in Saturday's…

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The Wombeyan Cares Road

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

The President (Councillor Halatead) took advantage of Mr. M'Court's presence at Friday's meeting of the Nattai Shire Council to refer to the Wombeyan Caves road,…

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Scene on a Railway Platform

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 6

A remarkable scene of excitement was witnessed on the Port Melbourne platform of the Flinders street railway station on Wednesday evening, in…

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Earth Trammels

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 6

When we look up at the glorious azure of the skies, now perhaps flecked with floating wisps of feathery cirrus suspended high in the upper regions of…

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Wombeyan Caves Road

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 2

The last meeting of the Mulware[?] Shire council had under consideration a letter from the Nathal Shire, which staled that arrangements had been made with the Hon…

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Amateur Motoring

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 2

It happened two or three days ago that a motor car was left at a local tradesman's shop for some slight repairs with instructions that when the…

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Fireman's Expedience. Fall From Express Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 5

A remarkable experience happened to the fireman of the up Great Western Company's mail train from Milford Haven to Paddington, which arrived at…

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Notes on the Road.—Goulburn to Bowral

Robertson Advocate · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 2

Goulburn at the present time appears to the visitors as a town to be classed with the "has beens." Its streets are dusty and deserted, and Private residents and trades…

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No National Roads

Robertson Advocate · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 3

Speaking at the conference of shire council presidents in Sydney, the other day, the Premier (Mr. Carruthers) said that requests had been made that certain works should be…

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