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Railways, roads & transport, 1910

10,372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Nymagee-herhidale Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 4

The Public Works Committee, Mr. F. Flowers, M.L.C., presiding, gave further consideration yesterday afternoon to the expediency of constructing the proposed Nymagee-Hermldale…

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A Railway Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 6

An inter-State conference of railway traffic officials was opened at the Speneer-street offices, Melbourne. on Wednesday, and will be concluded to-day. The officers conferring are Mr…

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Motoring

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 10

Mr Charles Proctor, who has been associated with the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia for many years, leaves for the United States shortly to assume control of Dunlops in America…

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Fall From a Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 8

Late last night a man fell from a tram in George-street, city, and was severely injured. He was admitted to the Sydney Hospital is an unconscious condition,…

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Suffragettes in Motors. Follow the Prime Minister

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Mr. Asquith's motor-car at East Fife was chased by suffragettes in motor-cars so persistently as to compel police intervention…

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Aeroplane Beats Express

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 31

An aviator named Metrot raced an express train on a biplane, and beat it easily, at Al[?]ers. During a meeting at the Joinville Hippodrome, while Metrot was flying round the…

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A Prince's Aeroplane

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 17

A nice little story is told of the German Crown Princess. As everyone knows, the…

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New Pedal-driven Aeroplane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 16

What is charactered by many of the English motoring and cycling press as an extraordinary invention has just been placed on the British market. It is a new [?]-driven aeroplane of the monoplane type, and is…

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Another Train West

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 6

The Blacktown Shire Council has been informed that, in compliance with the council's request, the Railway Commissioners have decided to extends the 10.20…

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Cycling in the Air. Invention of a Man-propelled Aeroplane

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 18

A man-propelled aeroplane, ilustrated on this page, is the latest invention which has been brought to an accomplished fact by Messrs. C. G. Spencer and Sons, of London. A…

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Cattle Train Derailed. Great Damage Done. Bathurst

The Star · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 9

A truck containing cattle consigned from Homebush to Bathurst was being transferred from the main to a branch line, when it made off at a great pace, and crashed into the…

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New Conscription. Proposal to Train All Girls As Cooks

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 18

It is proposed in Germany to introduce a form of conscription to compel all girls to undergo a period of training as domestic servants. The idea was put forward at the conference…

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Tight-rope Train. British Triumph with the Mono-rail

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 5

To travel by train with greater safety than at present, although on a single rail and at a speed of 150 to 200 miles an hour, will…

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The Cootamundra Accident. Train Smash. Flood and Loss of Life

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 3

Up to the present the terrible floods in New South Wales hare not been responsible for serious accidents on the railways through washaways. But the authorities have had to…

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Eastern Suburbs Railway. Trams Hopelessly Inadequate. Meeting of Suburban Councils' Delegates

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 7

As the result of a motion carried in the Woollahra Council some few weeks ago, the first of a series of meetings of representatives of the Paddington, Woollahra, Waverley,…

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Eastern Suburbs Railway. Construction Urged. Tramways Shockingly Inadequate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 13

A public meeting was held last night at the Paddington Town Hall with the object of furthering the construction of an eastern suburbs railway…

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The First "National" Road. a Tourist Route and Government Responsibility

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 6

An important departure in local government policy was illustrated in the last "Government Gazette." Hitherto no road has been proclaimed a "national work"--as the statutory phrase is…

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Cleveland-street New Trams

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 16

Commencing Monday next a regular service of trains will be run via Cleveland street from the Intersection of George-street West and Newtown-road to Randwick-road Junction. The…

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Railway Traffic. Getting Trains Through Again

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 9

The Railway Department has succeeded in sufficiently repairing the damaged railways in the flooded districts, to restore the ordinary service from Werris Creek through to Moree…

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Railway Accident. Three Bullocks Killed

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 5

BATHURST, Saturday.—The derailment of a truck of cattle, resulting in three bullocks being killed, took place near Bathurst Saleyards. A local batcher named J. P. Ryan, sen.,…

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