Fatal Railway Accident. SYDNEY
Charles Ocklan, an elderly widower with two children, has been cut to pieces on a suburban railway. Ocklan was a carpenter by trade…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
279 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 14
Collision Between Tram and Van. A Picnic Party Upset. MELBOURNE
There was a serious accident last night on the St. Kilda-road. A van, driven by Robert M'Guinness and containing a picnic party consisting of ten adults and nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The St. Kilda Road Accident. MELBOURNE
Miss Ellen Ardley, who was injured by the shaft of a van while she was seated on a dummy tramcar on the St. Kilda line, on New Year's night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trucks and Train in Collision. Narrow Escape from a Fearful Accident. MELBOURNE
Last night a train of tracks at the Newport sheds, while being shunted, crashed into a passenger train that was coming in from Geelong laden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Traffic Returns
A GOOD idea of the extent of the passenger traffic over the Silverton Tramway Company's lines is procurable from the returns of the holiday season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Broken Hill Traffic. The Tram Company's Charges
THE South Australian Railway Department, whose revenue so mush depends, especially in a season like the present, on the traffic to and from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Remarkable Discovery. Found Dead Under a House. A Railway Town Mystery
A QUEER and rather ghastly discovery was made last night by a carpenter named Alfred Lamphee, residing in Gaffney-street, Railway Town. On December 21 Lamphee, with his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrier Miner. Saturday, January 9, 1897. Broken Hill and the S. A. RAILWAYS
THE dispatch of the first parcel of sulphide concentrates from the Central mine to the new works at Cackle Creek, near Newcastle, celebrated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Municipal Elections. Noisy Meeting at Railway Town. Old and New Candidates
THE second meeting of the Labor party in connection with the elections was held at the Gasworks Hotel, Railway Town, last night. A crowded room assembled to hear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Town Mystery. a Queer Story. The Effects of Syphilophobia
AN inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the Hillside Hotel on the body of the man found underneath a house in Gaffney-street, Railway Town, on Thursday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South African Railways. LONDON
Mr. Cecil Rhodes has been granted by the Government of Cape Colony the option of building a railway in Rhodesia within seven years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cape Railways. Proposed Extension Into the Transvaal. London, Jan. 9
President Kruger has consented to the Cape railway lines being extended to the Rand Goldfields and also to Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Railway Extension. LONDON
The Russian budget for 1897 sets apart 129,000,000 roubles for building railways in the Russian empire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mangled by a Train. HOBABT, Sonday Evening
The train from Zeehan to Strahan ran into a middle-aged man named Edward Fisher, who was crossing the line, crashing him terribly. His arm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Barrier Railway
THE deviations and alterations in the route and grade of the Port Pirie and Cockburn line, authorised last session by Parliament, are, the Advertiser says, expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Novel Electric Railway
THE Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was opened on November 28. It runs not along the roadside, but over the water, the rails being laid in front of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overtaken by a Train. SYDNEY
Michael Caffrey, a foreman ganger, went down to Wollongong to fish on Saturday afternoon. He was returning home on a tricycle at night on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sudden Death in a Train. SYDNEY
An unknown man, apparently about 50 years of age, entered the train for Sydney at Armcliffe last night, and suddenly fell back in a seat and died…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder at the Semaphore. Caused by a Quarrel in a Train. Arrest of the Murderer. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Tuesday Afternoon
Early this morning a man named Andrew Drummond war arrested at a house in the Semaphore on a charge of murdering James King, a clerk in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways and the Rinderpest. LONDON
President Kruger says it is necessary to encourage the construction of railways in the Transvaal, as the rinderpest is destroying the means of…
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