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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 18
A fearful railway accident occurred near Bendigo yesterday, whereby John Langey (18) and Benjamin Bunton (18) were killed, and Blanche Hoskins (18), and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trans-Balkan section of the Siberian railway has been completed, and direct communication between St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, and the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maurice Fogarty and Eva Foote, two of the victims of the railway accident at Bendigo, on Monday, are both in a critical condition. Three of the victims have already…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Frankfort express, in Germany, collided with another train at Bischweiler. The last waggon on the goods train was laden with spirits. These…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Piesse, Minister for Works, in reply to a deputation, has forwarded, a statement to the Press, stating that for some time past it has been generally known that friction has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pursuant to the determination arrived at last night by the locomotive enginedriver and firemen, the men as a body ceased work to-day. Those who should have gone on at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the locomotive drivers and other workmen on strike Mr. Helmes, M.P., and the Rev. G. E. Wheitley, Methodist minister, were delegated to interview the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Methuen is making a railway along his front at Modder River in the face of desultory shell practice by the enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the Mercantiles won the tosson Saturday afternoon on the Oval and sent the Tramways into the field, the latter hardly expected to be kept thew the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE mind of Mr. Thomas, M.P., has been sorely exercised about the Railway Town post-office, whose erection has been so long deferred. Each delay, however, has only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE present hostilities in South Africa will give occasion for the exercise of great ingenuity on the part of the engineering corps, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report of the British Royal Commission on automatic railway couplings includes railway employees as men engaged in dangerous trades, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday two boys lay by the side of the railway at Geelong and went to sleep. Arthur Bridges, aged 12, got his foot on the line and a goods train parsed over it and cut…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of James Cruickshank was found on the raliway line at Oakleigh yesterday, dreadfully mangled. It is believed to be a case of suicide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Mayor recently wrote to the Department of Public Works asking that an officer be sent to report on the advisableness of constructing a tramway system in Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Norths continued the match against the Tramways under protest on the ground that the latter were late in putting in an appearance. The last wicket fell for 159, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. PERCY SCABR, district engineer in the Roads and Bridges Department at Goulbourn, is at present in Broken Hill in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Charters Towers states that a train conveying Day Dawn Block quartz collided yesterday with a string of empty trucks, which had been left on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON the Oval on Saturday afternoon the Tramways, batting with 10 men, made a miserable display against the Australs. They had no luck from the start. Jim Roberts was caught…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. HARRY GIBSON, a well-known railway official, ever takes an earnest if quiet interest in all that pertains to the welfare of state or individaul…
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