Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed by a Tram. SYDNEY
The man killed by a tram at Redfern yesterday has been identified as John Vardy, 70, a fruitgrower, from Field of Mars…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
444 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 23
Russia and the Other Powers. Control of the Railways. LONDON
Russis, negotiating with the rest of the Powers, claims possession of an important Shan-hai-kwan workshop and the retention of half the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail and Tram Traffic. SYDNEY
On Commonwealth Day the railways carried to Sydney 50,000 passengers, and during last week 3 200,000 passengers were carried over the trains and trams…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Tram Accident. SYDNEY
Arthur Ready, a visitor from Tamworth, was knocked down by an electric tram last night and sustained a fracture of the skull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Train Accident. [By Telegraph.] "Sydney, Thursday Afternoon
John Adam was travelling by train to Sydney to-day when he fell off and the wheels going over his legs smashed them to a pulp…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wentworth Railway. [By Telegraph.] Wentworth
A representative meeting of members of the Railway League and other resi[?]ents was held in the Mechhanics Institute Mr. Bowling, chairman of the league, presided…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The East. [Reuter's Message.] Russia and Mauchuria. Control of the Northen Railways. Successful Protest by Britain. LONDON
Several reports have been received that Russia has yielded to the protests of Lord Salisbury with regard to the control of the North China railway, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway From West Australia. Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta
ONE of the first matters likely to be brought before the Federal Government for consideration is the on traction of a transcontinental line to connect Western Australia with South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway-Steamer Combination. London
The Candian-Pacific Railway Company has purchased the CanadianPacific Steamship Navigation Company's fleet of steamers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experimenting with Electric Railways. LONDON, Monday Evening
The Emperor Willison has placed a military railway, Berlin and Zosaan, at the disposal of a company for the parpose of experimenting with electric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Street Trams
MR. T. W. SHAW, the constructing engineer la charge of the Broken Hill street tramways, arrived from Sydney, as already reported, yesterday morning. In ooo re nation with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transcontinental Railway. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Sir John Forrest, interviewed in Melbourne on the subject of the transcontinental railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, said the line must come aa part of the real federation:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transcontinental Railway. [By Teleograph.] Adelaide, Thursday Afternoon
With reference to the Kalgoorlie railway, Mr. Holder this morning, in an interview with Sir John Forrest, who arrived by the express, suggested that the line should go to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder in a Railway Train. LONDON
An ex-soldier named Hill shot at and killed Mr. Pearson, an elderly farmer, in a lavatory compartment on a Southwestern system train, near Surbiton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatal Collision with a Tramcar. ADELAIDE
Last evening Mr. H. Blatchford, inspector and chief clerk of the Bank of Adelaide, was killed instantaneously at Henley Beach. He was riding On a bicycle, and collided with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cobar-Wilcannia Railway
The Cobar-Wilcannia Railway catension, which was thrown out in the last session of Parliament through the crass ignorance and low mental capacity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Iron Monarch Railway. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Operations are being commenced in connection with the Iron Monarch railway. A large quantity of stores has been landed [?]t Little Hummock, and preparations are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Street Tramways
FORMAL intimation, dated January 15, is made by the Minister for Works, in connection with the Broken Hill tramway, that there is now open for inspection, at the Office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Town Suicide. The Inquest
AT, the courthouse this afternoon the coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.) held an inquest touching the death of James Ballantyne, [?] died in the Hospital this morning from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Railway
Sir John Forrest, our Federal Minister for Defence, when advocating the immediate construction of a trans-continental railway to [?] Port Augusta, S. A…
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