{{Short description|Former newspaper in Midland Junction, Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Swan Express | school = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | image = The Swan Express.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = | format = | owner = | founder = Frederick Davis | publisher = | president = | editor = | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1900 | political_position = | language = English | ceased_publication = 1979 | relaunched = | headquarters = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = | publishing_country = Australia | publishing_city = Midland Junction }}
'''''The Swan Express''''' was a weekly English language newspaper published in Midland, Western Australia.
== History == ''The Swan Express'' was published from 1 December 1900 until 8 November 1979. It was printed by William Heller at 184 Barrack St, Perth, and published at The Crescent, Midland Junction.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1753221~S7#.Vl0FCnYrIdU|title = The Swan Express|date = |accessdate = 1 December 2015|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>
It was established by Frederick Davis, who had previously worked as the second in charge at ''The Sunday Chronicle''.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Cyclopedia of Western Australia Vol. 1|last = Battye|first = James Sykes|publisher = Hesperian Press|year = 1985|isbn = 0859050734|location = Carlisle|pages = 326}}</ref> Davis owned and edited the newspaper for 8 and a half years before he sold the business to Herbert James Lambert, who took control on Monday 3 April 1909.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204777541 |title=OURSELVES. |newspaper=The Swan Express |location=Midland Junction, WA |date=3 April 1909 |accessdate=30 November 2015 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Lambert was an experienced journalist and had previously worked as sub-editor at the ''Morning Herald''.<ref name=":1" />
During World War I, Lambert ran the soldiers' camp newspaper, ''Camp Chronicle: the soldier's paper'', and he later went on to become editor of ''The West Australian''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76189621 |title=Pertinent Paragraphs. |newspaper=The Mirror |location=Perth |date=10 August 1929 |accessdate=30 November 2015 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
''Camp Chronicle'' was published at Blackboy Hill army camp, recording the day-to-day events of the camp. The newspaper contained personal paragraphs, anecdotes and matters pertaining to the life of a soldier.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37760204 |title=The "Camp Chronicle.". |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Perth |date=4 August 1932 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The weekly newspaper served the eastern suburbs of Perth, including Midland (then known as Midland Junction), which in 1900 was a major railway junction.
== Availability == Issues of ''The Swan Express'' (1900–1954) and the ''Camp Chronicle'' (1915–1918) have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|title = Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program|date = |accessdate = 1 December 2015|website = National Library of Australia|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of Western Australia.
Microfilm and hard copies of ''The Swan Express''<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2812903~S7#.Vl0RQnYrIdU|title = The Swan Express [microform]|date = |accessdate = 1 December 2015|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> and the ''Camp Chronicle''<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2813196~S7#.Vl0RsHYrIdU|title = Camp Chronicle [microform]|date = |accessdate = 1 December 2015|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1744068~S7#.Vl0R8nYrIdU|title = Camp Chronicle: the soldier's paper|date = |accessdate = 1 December 2015|website = State Library of Western Australia catalogue|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.
== See also == * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in Western Australia
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
== External links == * {{Trove newspaper|981|The Swan Express|Midland Junction, WA: 1900 - 1954}} * {{Trove newspaper|844|Camp Chronicle|Midland Junction, WA: 1915 - 1918}}
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