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Railways, roads & transport, 1906

8,602 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Glen Alice Shale Mines. Proposed Tramway Route. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 7

Mr. J. H. Cardew, C.E., has completed [?] preliminary survey of the proposed tramline between Clarence and Wolgan Valley. The estimated length of this line is about 28 miles…

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Railways and Settlement

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 74

At a public meeting of the residents and settlers of the Wagga district, held last week, at Jessie Park Bolero, Mr. A. G. Hamby being elected chairman, a resolution was unammously carried requesting the…

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St. George Club Air Motor Wins the 14-Foot Championship

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

The hard blow made things very lively in Rotany Bay, the local boat, sallwd by walter Halthes, had no difficulty in winning from the Sydney boat Esperanze,…

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Misconduct in a Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 10

F. Strickland Wigg was prosecutor, and Frederick Wenck, who described himself as foreman in a boot factory, was defendant in proceedings at the Paddington Court. Wenck was charged with using indecent…

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Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. Summer Wheel Race Carnival. to Open To-night

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 10

The Summer Wheel Race Carnival is to open to-night at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and all that scems to be necessary for a successful night's racing is favorable weather. The programme should provide exciting racing…

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A Doctor's View of Motoring

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 10

A German medical man, stales "The Motor, in practice at Tilsit, sends to a Berlin daily an account of his first motor tour, undertaken, by the way, against the advice of his friends, who prophesied nil sorts of…

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Motoring. Motor-cycle Race

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 10

Members of the Pioneer Motor-cycle Club and other motorists affiliated with the League of Wheelmen are reminded that entries are to close to- night with the secretary of the New South Wales League of Wheelmen for…

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Shipping of Wheat. New Railway Jetty at Pyrmont

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 8

A new jetty has been constructed by the Sydney Harbor Trust in Pyrmont Bay. In June last it became evident to the authorities that the wheat harvest of 1905-6 would show a very…

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MOTORING. Automobile Club Run. (See Illustration on page 24.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 24

The opening run of the Automobile Club of Australia for 1906 took place on Saturday. The cars assembled at Martin Place at 2 o'clook for a run to Pennant Hills, where about forty…

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Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. Fine Road Ride by Henderson

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 10

New Zealand produces some wonderfully fine road riders. H. Henderson, one of the team who came across to Australia recently for the Dunlop Road Races from Goulburn to Sydney, and Warrnambool to…

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Casualties. Fall From a Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 7

William Chick, aged 14 years, residing at Bond's street, Belmore, met with a serious accident at the Belmore railway station yesterday afternoon. Whilst attempting to alight…

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Killed by a Train. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 7

Harry Peddle, son of the postmaster at Frankston, was driving with his sister to-day between Tyabb and Hastings, and attempted to cross the railway line in front of a train,…

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Fell Beneath a Train. Accident at Belmore Station

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

In attempting to alight from a moving train at Belmore station, at about a quarter to 2 yesterday afternoon, a lad named William Chick, residing in Bond's-road, in that suburb, met with…

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Accident to a Boy. Run Over by a Train

The Australian Star · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 7

Late yesterday afternoon a little boy named Henry Chick, aged 14, the soil of Mr. Chick, a tailor, residing at Belmore, who works, for a shop in town, was run over by a train at…

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A Train on Fire. Quantity of Nitrate Burnt. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 6

When the 7 o'clock mixed train for Adelaide, via Petersburg, had proceeded a little over two miles on its journey from port Pirle this morning it was noticed that the…

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Railway Prosperity. "Rises" for the Working Staff

Evening News · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners have been approached from several directions for reductions of the rates, particularly in regard to the carriage of live stock, but at the present time it…

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Wolgan—glen Alice Shale Mines. the Proposed Tramway

Evening News · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 8

LITHGOW, Thursday.—Mr. J. H. Cardew, C.E., has just completed a preliminary survey of the proposed tramline between Clarence Sid­ing, at the lop of the Great Western Zigzag,…

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Victoria. Railway Carriage Lighting. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 7

The Railway Commissioners propose to introduce Pintsch incandescent gas lights into the railway carriages, beginning with the Sydney express train. The light is said to be…

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China's Railways. British Concession Withdrawn London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 7

With the object of conciliating those opposed to foreigners, China has Withdrawn the British concession for the construction of the Shanghai-Hangehau railway, which…

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Cycling and Motoring. a New Design of Motor Cycle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

An innovation in motor cycle construction has lately been placed on the English market. It is the mention of a Mr. Brown of Reading, mid the chief point about it is that the machine is constructed…

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