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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1912

103 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 6

Political Railway Control

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1912 · page 6

The State Treasurer (Mr Dacey), replying to a deputation of railway workers asking for a redress of grievances, said that as to payment for…

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Jumped from train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 2

William Gordon Logan, aged 9 years, lost his life under unusual circumstances on Sunday morning. It appears that deceased, who…

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Noted Tramp Steer Shot

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 February 1912 · page 4

The famous steer which escaped from Butcher Obert's pen, Lehighton, a year ago, and which had been shot at a hundred times, but escaped traps set…

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Moss Vale-Robertson Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 February 1912 · page 2

We notice in the "Ganmain-Matong Express " of recent date an article which appeals for an additional port in order to relieve the…

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Dutch Railways

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

The railways of Holland seem to have a pretty hardscrabble time of it. Water competition—that of the canals and of the Rhine—has always…

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Railway Disasters

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 February 1912 · page 6

There has been an epidemic of railway disasters in North America. Two freight trains collided at North Yarmouth, and the wreckage caught…

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Carriages, Buggies, and Motor Cars

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 4

The rapid growth of Messrs. Angus and Sons' trade in motor cars has led some people to suppose that this 50-year-old firm was paying only…

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Railway Crossing at Mittagong

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

As a result of a petition forwarded by residents of Mittagong, taking for action by the Railway Commissioners to improve the existing conditions at the Princess-street…

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Record Motor Ride. This Vanderbilt Cup

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 3

Ralph Mulford, by winning the Vanderbilt Cup motor race at Savannah at on average speed of 73.2 miles an hour, not only created a speed record…

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Carriages, Buggies, and Motor Cars

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 3

The rapid growth of Messrs. Angus and Sons' trade in motor cars has led some people to suppose that this 50-year-old firm was paying only…

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Unsatisfactory Train Service To the Editor

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

SIR,—I was pirated to notice in your last issue that attention wh drawn to the unsatisfactory train service in connection with the Moss Vale show, and…

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Motoring Elopements

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 4

One often bears nowadays of fail ladles eloping with their motormen, writes Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in the "Car," and the commonest…

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Song of the Road

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

Heel and toe, to the West I go. Apace to the redbreast's ditty; Siniess eyes on the smokeless skies, Three leagues away from the city!…

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Motors. Signalling Device

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 3

Motorists who travel at night realise to an acute degee the danger in passing a car which is travelling ahead in the same direction. The following car (says…

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Purdah and Motors. Women and the Durbar

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 3

Among the splendors of the camps that centred upon Kingsway and Coronation Road there might occasionally be seen a costly and high powered…

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Motor Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

A motoring fatality occurred between Bankstown and Liverpool on Sunday morning, Mr. John Sands, of Karoola, Bennett-street, Bondi,…

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Road Making Machinery

Robertson Advocate · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

Apropos of road making plants, this is what Councillor Maxwell, President of Dorrige Shire says:—"He had been asked about the…

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Railway Duplication Board

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 2

"If necessary the Government is prepared to bring oat a shipful of workmen," said the Minister for Works (Mr Griffith) in moving in the Legis…

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Seeing Sydney by Motor

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 3

DURING the coming Buster holidays residents from the country who visit Sydney should make a point of calling at the Immigration and Tourist Bureau…

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The Lighting at the Railway Station

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 2

At Tuesday night's meeting of the Moss Vale council, a minute by the mayor recommending that electricity be supplied to the Railway…

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