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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
444 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 23
Another batch of 1335 Boer prisoners has been landed at St. Helena. The Times correspondent at Bloemfontein, in describing the mourning in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The last quarter's earnings of the New South Wales railways and tramways was a record for Australia. The revenue was: Railways, £1,053,[?]99; tramways, £1[?]4,835. The gross…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If the rapidly alternating excitements of public mourning and public rejoicing will permit a reference to so prosaic a subject as railway traffic, we would like to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders have been invited for the construction of the first section (27 miles) of the Gladstone to Rockhampton railway. Tenders for the second section will not be invited for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two second-class passengers boarded the Western mail train at Archer Park, on the Central line, and as the train left the station they fought. One, named Stock or Pitstock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Sydney to Melbourne the distance is 530 miles (says a correspondent to the Honolulu "Republican," of December 19,) sad the journey can be made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A terrible railway accident has occurred on the New York, Chicago, and Lake Erie railway. One of the fastest trains on the service was derailed through a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boers in southern Cape Colony "held up" and looted the Greyling[?]tadVlaklaagte train. Six civilians were wounded in the attack. The Boers also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. G. W. Nutt has been appointed chief engineer of the Queensland Government railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dunedin tramway sheds have been destroyed by fire and a dozen cars barned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful railway accident occurred yester day evening on the Illawarra raliway line, between Sydney and [?]tville. The train timed to leave the Redf[?]rn seation at 5.55…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible railway accident has occur[?] at Tempe, 6 1/2 miles south of Sydney, [?] Cook's River. Fourteen people, [?] killed, and thirteen injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cecilla Agnes Duggan, a pa[?]se[?]ger for North Fremantle by a train that did not stop at that station, as the train was patsing opened the carriage door and jumped on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Spencer, 26, tailor, living at Carlton, and Frederick Jacket, 42, a widower, injured in the railway accident at Sydenham on Friday evening, have expired in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Despatches from South Africa chronicle a nnmber of small skirmishes. A force of 100 Boers, while engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The remains of Messers. Jacke[?] and Maderson, two of the victims of the Sydenham railway disaster, were in[?]erred at Sutherland yesterday. The coffins were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russo-Chinese Bank has undertaken to construct for China a railway from Lake Baekal to Port Arthur and work it for 30 years. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a letter to the "S.M. Herald," Mr W. H. Morrison, of Wilcannia, draws attention to several drawbacks directly affecting Cobar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Particulars of the railway accident to hand show that the train left Redfern at 5.55 p.m. on Friday filled with passengers, and left the track when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works met the other day and proceeded to further consider the question of the expediency of constructing a line…
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