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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

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Tramp's Good Story. a Romance of the Road

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1915 · page 4
Also in The Southern Mail

The gloomiest tramp I have ever come across wan a man I met Just outside Blshop's Stortford. I was mending a puncture by the side of…

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Train Fired on by Turks. Four Killed—seven Wounded

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 6

One of the longest and most crowded point trains that has ever left Broken Hill carried these who set out with light hearts on Friday morning to…

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Motor Car Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 January 1915 · page 2

On Monday evening whilst driving a Ford car, the property of Messrs. Kelgwin, Orme, and Co., Sydney, from Moss Vale to Sutton Forest,…

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Motor Car Accident

Robertson Advocate · Friday 8 January 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

On Monday evening last while driving a Ford car, the property of Messrs. Keigwin, Orne, and Co, Sydney, From Moss Vale to Sutton…

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Motorcycle in War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

For the first time in the history of the world the motor -cycle may be called upon to take no unimportant part in what may provo to be the greatest…

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Train Alterations

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2

It is probable that some slight alterations will be made in the passenger train traffic alter February 1. A proposal is now being considered…

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Train Alterations

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

It is probable that some slight alterations will be made in the passenger train traffic after February 1. A proposal is now being considered by the…

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A War Picture. on a Hospital Train. Relief From Horrors

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 3

The ambulances drive up from the direction of the thunderstorm that never ceases, thread their way through the letter and confusion of the marshalling yard at…

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The Dusty Road. Putting Tommy to Rest. Pen Picture of War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 3

"Funeral party here, sir." says the orderly, putting his head in at the door of the sunny orderly-room. You look out of the window and see that a company has been halted in…

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Railway Management

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 5

Bathurst, Sunday:—"No Government institution is so badly managed as the railway," said Mr. B. Cutler, in moving, at the farmers and…

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Motor in War. Triumph of Touring Car. Doing a Glorious Work

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 3

The Allies and the Germans live on their motor car service. So says John Prisieau in London Daily Mail. The chief point which strikes one about the…

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Motor Road Train. Novel Sight

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 6

Interest was caused in Hay on Monday by the appearance of a motor road train in the principal street, on the way from Droongla station to the…

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Heavier Rails for Railways

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

It is apparent that the rapidly increasing weights of both locomotives aud loaded cars of all descriptions in America will soon make a heavier rail…

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Railway Men and the Hospital

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

At the meeting of the committee of the Berrim District Hospital on Friday last, a Communication was received from the secretary to the Department of Public Health…

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Railway Fatality at Mittagong

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred on the railway line at Mittagong. near the main crossing gates at the melt works, on Friday night last, the victim being Thomas Starg[?],an…

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RAILWAY [?] at

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

A [?] Railway line at Mittagong [?] the main [?] gates at the melt works on Friday night last, the [?] bring Thomas [?]…

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