A Train Mishap. HOBART
Sandy Nore, while endeavoring to jump no a leaded truck, traveling at great speed on the Henley line, near Launceston, missed his hold, and his right foot slipped between the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 18
Wrecking the Railway Line. London
The latest definite news received in London via Cape Town regarding Mafeking was that the Boers were wrecking the railway line south of…
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MR. DAVID KI[?]KCALDIE, one of the Commissioners of Railway of New South Wales, and Mr. John Harper, Chief Traffic Manager, arrived in Broken Hill yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Wreck a Train. The Engine Derailed. [By Telegraph.] Auckland
As an excursion train was returning to Invercargill from DuneDin after the departure of the fourth contingent for South Africa the engine became derailed approaching the…
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When Lieutenant-General Gatacre was advancing on Betbulie from Burghersdorp, the Boers destroyed the railway bridge across the Orange River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rains in South Africa. a Troop Train Overturned. Ninety-nine Soldiers Injured. London, Tuesday Afternoon
Heavy rains have fallen throughout South Africa, and many of the military camps are now swamps. During a storm a troop train was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Natal Railways. London
Ninety thousand railway sleepers intended for the D[?]ndee-Vryheid line of railway in Natal have been transferred to the Dundee-Transvaal railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. the Advance on Pretoria. Heavy Rains in South Africa. a Troop Train Overturned. Total Boer Losses Estimated at 15,000. Commandant Olivier's Plight. [Reuter's Messages.] the Advance on Pretoria. Cause of Roberts' Delay. Lord Methuens' Preparations. London
It is announced that the assured loyalty and surrender of the Free Staters and the absolute security of the British rear are the first requisites for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Menindie Railway. Reasons for and Against. Critical Attitude of Commissioner Kirkcaldie
YESTERDAY afternoon Mr. Kirkealdie (Commils[?]oner of Railways) and Mr. Herper (Chief Trafle Manager) met the Citizens at the Town Hall for the purpose of hearing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in a Railway Tunnel. Five Persons Killed. Twenty-two Injured. [Reuter's Message.] London
A terrible railway accident has occurred at Glasgow. A workmen's train, following another train, came into Collision with it in a tunnel, and the…
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AT the last Council meeting the Mayor brought forward the quarter of the want of water provision on the Cobar Road. we have written to this matter time after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. London, March 29
A terrible railway accident has occurred at Glasgow. Two trains collided in a tunnel, many persons being killed and injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in yesterday's Third Edition:— the Proposed Menindie Railway. a Sydney Criticism. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon
The Australian Stir, in a leaderette this evening, says: "It is difficult to understand what takes Railway Commissioner Kirkca'dle and Mr. Harper to Broken Hill just…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] The Delagoa Bay Railway. LONDON
The Arbitration Tribunal sitting at Berne, which for several years has been investigating the claims of Great Britain and America, on behalf of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road Into Rhodesia. by Permission of Portugal Troops Landed at Beira. London
The Daily Mail this morning announces that the British war authorities have received permission from the Portuguese Government to send men…
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" WITH regard to the Merrindie railway connection to Broken Hill," the S. M. Herald says, in an article dealing with railway proposals in the Far West, " at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Delagos Bay Railway. LONDON
The Portuguese Government has announced that it will retain the Delagoa Bay Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in Saturday's Second Edition:— the War. the Affair at Wepener. Attempt to Wreck a Train. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Friday Afternoon
The English newspapers discredit the Boers' assertion that they captured, at Doorn Sprnit, any of the British plans for the invasion of the South African…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Smash. Upsetting a Sheep Train. [By Telegraph.] Wellington
A serious railway accident has occurred at Rimutaka. The guard of the train, Hicks, was seriously injured. It is supposed that he was buried for two hours underneath the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Employees' Sports
The annual picnic and sports of the Silverton Tramway Employees will be held at M'Culloch Park on Monday, These sports have always proved most enjoyable, and the…
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