Cycling and Motoring Notes
The One [?]le Australasian Championship was decided in Sydney last week and resulted in a win for P. Mutton (N.S.W.), with H. W…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
439 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 22
Railways in Private Houses
To have a railway in one’s private house is a luxury which few can afford, oven if they have the space which such a mechanical novelty requires. Nevertheless…
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Some of the huts occupying sites within railway boundaries in parts of the State and especially in the country districts, and used as homes for railway employees, hardly do credit…
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Bungendore, Wednesday.—Upon the approach of the mail train from Cooma on Monday night the stationmaster saw smoke and flames issuing from a truck next to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Amalgamation Declared Illegal. London, March 3
In the Court of King's Bench yesterday Mr. Justice Lawrance decided that the proposed joint scheme of the Great Northern and Great Central railways for the amalgamation of certain interests exceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Superannuation
Some months ago subscriptions wore taken up throughout the railway and tramway services for the purpose of employing an actuary- to prepare a suitable scheme of superannuation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Machine which Records Rough Roads
A machine which when carried on a locomotive or car records the rough places in the track ha enabled the Japanese narrow gauge railroads to…
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ON Thursday, Feb. 27, a deputation consisting of Mr. Nielsen, M.L.A., Mr. F. Flowers, M.L.C. Mr. S. H. Belcher (Reid's Flat), Messrs. J. and T.Prosser…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Thursday. Train Thief
Meddi, an expert train thief, has been identified as the assailant of Miss Low, murderously robbed in the Turin express on the 13th January, 1907…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident at the Goods Yard. a Railway Servant Crushed to Death
A WAVE of sorrow spread throughout our community on (Tuesday)yesterday having been provoked by the occurrence of another fatal accident in our midst, on that morning it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. a Railway Smash. Eleven Persons Injured. Sydney
Passengers by the north-western mail, making its way through the night towards Sydney, were just before 12 o'clock last night plunged without warning into all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Motor Record. London, March 9
At the Ormond motor races, on Florida Beach (US.A.), one competitor, Mr. Bernin, drove a 60-h.p. Renault car 100 miles in 72 minutes 56 seconds—a world's record…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Frogmore News. Railway Meeting
There was a most enthusiastic public meeting in connection with the Railway League held at the' Frogmore Hotel, on Wednesday, 4th inst., at 4…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cycling and Motoring. From the Dunlop Tyre Co. Motor Cycle Record
It now transpires that J. Doherty’s (N.S.W.) five miles figures given in last week’s notes as appropriating the Australasian Motor Cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Motor Cycle Championship
The 25 Miles Victorian Motor Cycle Championship was decided over an out and home course on the Sydney Road on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fatal Railway Accident
A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at the Court House on Wednesday last, by Mr. R. W. Collian. J .P., as to the cause of debits of Thomas Eric Nash, whose lamentable death was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass-queanbeyan Railway
At a meeting of the Yass Municipal Council held on Tuesday evening, a letter was read from Mr. Nielsen, M.L.A., in connection with the proposed construction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Sensation. London, March 16
A passenger train travelling at a high rate of speed on the Great Central line met with a remarkable accident at Wimbley Park. The engine, tender, and five carriages were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Motor Car at Jerusalem. London, March 14
The first automobile ever seen in Jerusalem arrived yesterday. The owner and driver is Mr. Charles Glidden, of Boston, Massachusetts, who has now motored…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Found Dead on the Crookwell Road
The body of an unknown man was found on the Crookwell Road on Tuesday by a ganger in the employ of the Mulwaree Shire Council. The matter was reported to the…
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