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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 18
THE Silverton Tramway employees' picnic and sports at M'Culloch Park yesterday were attended with that gratifying success which has without a single exception been a feature…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barbara Mosely, aged 4, took fright at a cow in Moore Park and ran across the road. At that moment a tram was passing; the frightened little girl got under the wheals and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joseph Watson, a laborer, at Christchurch railway station, attemped to board a train in motion. He fell between the carriages, but retained his grasp of the iron guard. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richard Direen was [?]un over by a train at Oamaru yesterday and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leslie Watts, senior, a newspaper vendor, jumped on a moving tram lost evening and fell between the cars and was dragged live yards along the track. When extricated his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members for the district have been trying for the past fortnight to have the foundations of the new Broken Hill Technical College so ready that the Minister would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The employees of the. Midland Railway stopped work as threatened at Midland Jonction and Walkaway. A number of onginsdrivers and firemen also temporarily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The committee and officials of the Tramway Employees' sports and Picnic wound up their Easter turnout in style last night, when a Settling-up on an unusually extensive scale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON and after May 1 tha express train between Adelaide and Broken Hill will do the journey in about an hour and a half less than at present, owing to an accelerated speed on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS charge has been preferred against J. Orme, on engine-driver, and F. M'Mahon, a fireman, employed on a train running between Horsham and Natimuk, Victoria. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A mysterious attempt has been made to destroy the railway bridge at Komatie Pocrt, where the Delagoa Bay railway enters the Transvaal. The attempt has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning between Smithfield and Salisbury the Broken Hill express ran over and killed a swagman. The whole length of the train passed over the body, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Roberts reports to the War Office that the British forces under Lieutenant-General French, MajorGeneral len Hamilton, and Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The E[?]-in-C[?] of the Queensland railway has passed 35 miles of the Chillagoe railway. A P[?] [?] has been pegged to M[?] and has proved considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A laborer named Wallace, living at Grey, town, fell under a train returning from the races yesterday. One leg was severed from the body and the other bally mangled. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts, in a cable to the War Office, states that the Canadians, New South Walas, and New Zealand Rifles and the Queensland Mounted Infantry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. F. W. O'SULLIVAN, during his visit to Broken Hill, showed a proper sense of the importance of providing a railway communication for these far western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Roberts reports that the railway between Brandfort and Smaldeel has been seriously damaged by the Boers. The bridge over the Vet River, he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual general meeting of the Silverton Tramway Picnic and Sports Association was held last night at the goods station. Mr. W. G. Lewis presided over a good attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a number of visitor to the Brighton races were returning yesterday evening by Say well's steam tramway, running between Lady Robinson's Beach and the Rockdale…
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