Electric Tramway Progress
Engineering points out that in the United Kingdom we are now constructing on an average annually 166 miles of electric tramway, whereas Germany has…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
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Late Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] a New London Railway. LONDON, Thursday [?]noon
The Prince of Wales has opened the new Central London Underground Electric Railway from Shepherd's Bush to the Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tram Collision. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon
A steam and an electric tram came into collision at the Newtown-road junction to-day, Three of the passengers were slightly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Insolence of Railway Officials. Ordered to Leave the Transvaal. London
Owing to their insolence and treachery, Lord Roberts has ordered certain officials of the Netherlands Railway Company to leave the Transvaal within three days…
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THE Cobar-Wilcannia Railway is now before the House, she Minister for Public Works having gives notice that he will introduce the necessary Bill during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Electric Tram Accident
THE Chief Justice and a jury of four were engaged in the Banco Court on Thursday in healing a case brought by Louisa Lawson, lately propriutres and editress of Dawa…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Adelaide Tram System. Opposition to Private Companies. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
At a meeing of about 100 citizens, held last night, a resolution was carried strongly opposing the tramway rights of the city and suburb being handed over to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain, Gales, and Floods. Heavy Weather on the Coast. Goulburn Inundated. Railways Damaged. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon
The Sydney pestal authorities notify that telegraphic business with Victoria, Tasmania, West Australia, South Australia, and Queensland is being and will be subjected to serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Railway Rates
IN the South Australian Assembly debate on Wednesday evening Mr. Catt moved, according to notice,—"That an address be presented to the Governor praying that so much of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner. Saturday, July 7, 1900. Barrier Railway Rates
THE speech of Mr. Catt in which he invited the South Australian Parliament to annul that portion of a recent railway bylaw increasing the ore freights from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on the Railway. PERTH
Gus Simms, a railway employee at Perth, had his head and leg cut off yesterday by a shunting engine. He was caught by the foot in a switch, and after his death it took 40…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Political. [By Telegraph.] Queensland Government Policy. A Railway Programme. BRISBANE
Speaking last night at the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Association, the Premier (Mr. [?]hilp) said that the war in South Africa was now nearly over, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY
At the Oakey Park colliery, a man named Christianven, employed at the ovens bagging coke, is supposed to have been j[?]mmed by a truck against the retaining wall near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nationalisation of Tramways. [By Telegraph] Adelaide, Tuesday Afternoon
In connection with the tramways purchase question, a meeting of the various suburban councils is to be held on Friday to discuss the matter of municipalisation versus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Adelaide Tramways. Action by Suburban Councils. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
The special committee who was recently appointed by the suburban municipal bodies to consider the tramway question and the action of the City Council in consenting to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Siding at the North
ABOUT three months ago an agitation was started at the North to secure a raliway siding between the two breweries. After a public meeting bad been held, the mattor was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Bethlehem Captured. The Bushmen in Action. The Johannesburg-Pretoria Railway Threatened. A Boer Commandant Killed. London, July 11
Generals Clements and Paget captured Bethlehem after two day's heavy fighting, and recovered one of the guns lost at Stormberg. The British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By [?]. Shocking Train Accident. A Father and Two Children the Victims. SYDNEY
A peculiarly-shocking accident occurred at Newtown lost night, the victims belog Charles Nesbitt and his two children, who were alighting from a tra n co[?]ning from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY
John Connell, a railway porter, together with the bead porter, stationmaster, and two other men, was engaged pushing a number of empty trucks into a station dock. Connell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Accident. a Kadi[?] Train off the Li[?]e. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
News was received last night from Port Wakefield and P[?]skieville, stating that a serious accident had happened to a goods train about three miles from Paskeville. The train…
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