The Midland Railway Dispute. Auckland
This award of the arbitrator in the dispute between the Government and the Midland Railway Company is entirely against the company. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1896
371 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 19
A Mammoth Train
THE train which took the excursionists to Silverton to attend the Caledonian Sports yesterday was, it is believed, the largest train ever dispatched from a station in New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway in the Sea
THE Brighton (England) "railway in the sea" is described and illustrated in the Daily Graphic. The line is to be called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suicide on the Railway. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon
A man named William Proctor, a cook, employed at the Hawthorn Coffee Palace, was fonnd in a terribly mutilated condition on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suicide on the Railway. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon
A man named William Proctor, a cook, employed at the Hawthorn Coffee Palace, was found in a terribly mutilated condition on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Cable News. a Johannesburg Train Derailed. LONDON
A mail train running between Johannesburg and Durban, in Natal, became derailed at Dambausen. As a result 25 passengers were killed and 30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. The Transvaal Railway Disaster. LONDON
Further particulars concerning the derailing of the mail train between Johannesburg and Durban show that 32 persons were killed on the spot and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. the Wilcannia Bridge. Opened for Traffic. [By Tekegraph] Wilcannia
The new bridge ever the Dalling was opened far traffic to-day. The official opening has been postponed pending the visit of the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Runaway Tramcar
A SINGULAR accident recently happened to the electric tramcar at Genoa. The tram started on its first journey without passengers, and arrived safely at the bottom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interesting Facts About a Railway
WHICH is the greatest corportion on earth? According to Mr. W. J. Gordon in Pearson's Magazine, it is the London end North Western Railway. This company has a capital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wilcannia Bridge. Opened for Traffic. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia
The new bridge ever the Darling was opened for traffic to-day. The official opening has been postponed pending the visit of the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wilcannia Bridge. Now Open for Traffic
Mr. John Shearer, Resident Engineer for the Government, under whose supervision the bridge has been erected, took over the structure from the constructor on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Company Greed. to the Editor of the Barries Mines
SIR,âThe most flagrant case of injustice to a helpless woman by the Silverton Tramway Company that I have heard of for some time has just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrier Miner. Saturday, January 18. the Road to the River
MR. JOSIAH THOMAS, the scribe among the Parliamentary representatives of Broken Hill, is, with his colleagues, rightly resolved that the forthcoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Company Greed. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR,—A letter under the above heading appears in your issue of the 16th instant, above the signature of "Straight Wire," drawing attention to the fact of a poor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Management. The Barrier Trade
A MEETING of "representative business men" has been held at Port Pirie to consider railway matters in connection with the Barrier trade. The Register…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident in the Blue Mountains. a Train Derailed. [By Telegraph] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon
Owing to the extreme heat, there has been a great increase in the traffic to the Blue Mountains, and extra trains have been put on. A passenger train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident in the Blue Mountains. a Train Derailed. [By Telegraph] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon
Owing to the extreme heat, there has been a great increase in the traffic, to the Blue Mountains, and extra trains have been put on. A passenger train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Strange Affair in a Railway Carriage. Alleged Attempt to Chloroform a Girl. Was it " Woman's Fancy" Again? [By Telegraph.] Hobart
A girl of 19 years, named Jane Brown, daughter of a Launceston grocer, was travelling by the mail train from Hobart to Launceston in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicycle Road Race
THE following handicaps have been, declared by Mr. W. B. Temple, the [?]eague handicapper, for the Bicycle Road Race to Silverton on Saturday…
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