Ourimbah Train Service
The Secretary of the Ourimbah Progress Association (Mr. C. J. Duffy) has received a notification from the Railway Commissioners…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
29 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Miscellaneous. Wooden Railways
THERE are still several wooden railways in existence in Canada and the United States. Ono of them is in the province of Quebec, and is 30 miles long. The rails are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Motor Device for Propelling Small Boats
An interesting device in the way of applying a motor to a Email craft has been brought out by G. Trouche and Company and constructed at their Buchet works near Paris…
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An Italian inventor, named Dobelli, has thought of a very ingenious method of saving a large percentage of power in petrol motors which up to now is lost with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Roy[?]l Bridge
The Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company have recently completed a bridge of novel deign over the Mississippi. The bridge had to bo of such a height above low-water that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Odds and Ends. in a Tramcar
A CLERGYMAN who has just returned from a tour narrates an amusing incident which occurred one day in a tramcar. 'My complexion, as you know,' he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways in Winter
In countries where the railroad reaches high altitudes great trouble is experienced in keeping the track free from snow. In a very special degree this ia true of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Railways in India
The experimental light railways which have been under trial in India for some time have acquitted themselves so well that several millions sterling are about to be…
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A novel French touring map, the road being travelled is shown upon a band of paper, which is mounted on the splashboard of the motor-car, and by automatic unrolling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Science and Invention Concrete Railway Sleepers
RE-INFORCED concrete is much in evidence at the present moment, and one of its latest applications is to the construction of railway sleepers. The concrete,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Odds and Ends. a Tramp Who Asked for a Bath
THE village grocer (die only one, happy man!) in the sleep little community, stood at his shop door one morning, when a wonderfully ragged and dirty…
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The following official communication just received will no doubt be of interest to the Wyong Progress Association us well as to those who have occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miscellaneous. the World's Railways
AT the end of 1903 there were in the world about 516,000 miles of railways, which seem to have increased at the rate of about 12,000 miles a year. The amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wamberal-Tuggerah Road. (To the Editor.)
SIR,—If the Government officials survey national roads over minature mountains and through holey-ground swamps, they must expect to spend…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miscellaneous. an Ice Motor-car
THE development of the [?]amship, the locomotive, and the motor-car, would seem to have exhausted the field of novel means of transportation on land or water…
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Mr Walter Wellman, who has a scheme on foot for reaching the North Pole by means of an air-skip, is utilising all the resources of modern invention and science…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a Crowded Railway Carriage
It was her first holiday excursion, and she entered the compartment of a railway carriage with much trepidation, and sat down rather gingerly in one of the corner seats…
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The Clerk of the Gosford Municipal Council and the Secretary of the Brisbane Water Progress Association are in receipt of communications from the…
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Ever since man first sought to render useful the various forces of Nature, the question of how to use the wonderful power in the waves of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners
The Railway Commissioners, on a tour of inspection, visited Wyong on Friday afternoon last and were met by several of the members of the…
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