Excursion Train Derailed. Eight People Seriously Injured
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 4
Melbourne, Sunday.âA railway accident occurred at 1.25 this afternoon to an excursion train on the harrow gauge line from Ferntree Gully to Gembrook. The train consisted of eight covered trucks…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 4
Yass, Saturday.âA serious railway accident occurred at Yass Junction between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning. A train loaded with wheat and travelling to Sydney pulled into the…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2
Between 12 and 1 o’clock on Saturday morning last a rather serious railway [?] at Yass Junction [?] of trucks were smashed,…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 4
The Earl of Kromer, British Minister in Egypt, in the presence of many sheiks, yesterday opened the railway across the desert from Berber to Smuden, near Suakim, on the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 4
The Earl of Cromer, British Minister in Egypt, in the presence of many sheiks, yesterday opened the railway across the desert from Barbor to Smundon, near Sunkim, on the Red Sea…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 4
A summary of correspondence between Mr. Hollis, secretary of the Locomotive Engine-driver' Association, and the Railway Commissioners, which is published, indicates the…
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Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 5
Preaching lit Simla recently, the Bishop of Lahore chose for his subject the evils of card-playing for money, and severely attacked the gambling which…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2
A serious railway accident occurred at Yass Junction, between [?] and 2o'clock on Saturday morning last. A train loaded with wheat and travelling to Sydney…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 4
A DEPUTATION representing the Homebush selling agents waited upon the Railway Commissioners on Wednesday and asked that a free pass be granted to any drover in charge…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2
The railway men of Australia, it is known are now entitled by statute law to register their unions under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. This is a…
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The Young Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 3
These diagrams indicate the remarkable increase in the power and speed of racing cars that has taken place since 1894. At that date the average speed was only 12 miles per hour, while in the recent Paris-Madrid race it was 65, and the horse-power has risen in the same period from 4-h-p. to 90-h-p. Owing to the keen competition, manufactures have…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 February 1906 · page 4
A cry of fire during a children's service in a Vienna church caused a panic, and in the trampled to death, and 30 others were badly injured…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2
A REPORT from Harden states that owing to the shortage of water between Goulburn and Harden the trains have been arriving late at the latter station. One train yesterday is…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 3
Marriott, driving a steam automobile, in Florida, has covered a mile in twenty-eight seconds…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 2
The vacancy on the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into tile administration of tile Railway Commissioners has been filled by the appointment of Colonel Buns, of the firm of Burns, Philp, and Co.,…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 2
An exceptionally busy time is being experienced on the Goulburn division of the railways. A large number of temporary hands have been employed and at present there are upon the…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 4
THE vacancy on the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the administration of the Railway Commissioners has been filled by the appointment of Colonel Burns, of the firm…
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Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 2
It is not every tram-car passenger who casually leaves a bag containing nearly £1000 in notes and gold behind him on the seat when he leaps from…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 5
The United States House of Representatives by 346 votes to 7 has passed the Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill, which empowers the Interstate Commission to fix a just maximum rate, which…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 3
As the mail train from Sydney to Mores was passing near the latter station it encountered some obstruction placed on the line, including two packages of strong explosives, which…
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