The Very Latest. Boors Train Wrecking. They Strike a Warm Place. [By Cable.] London
The Boers wrecked a train at Pan, near Middleburg, on the Pretoria railway line. Two hundred of them charged the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
646 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 33
The Boer War. Exciting Probability. French and Do Wet Converging. Colonials Admired. Boers Derail a Train. LONDON
General French is reported to be returning westward from Vryheid. There is an exciting possibility that he and Do Wet may meet at North…
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The loan to provide for the construction of the railway from Scoul, the capital of Corea, to Fusan, the port, has been covered many times over in Tokio…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Visit of the Railway Commissioners. Deputations at East Maitland and Morpeth
Yesterday the Railway Commissioners—Messrs. C. Oliver, W. M. Fohon, and D. Kirkcaldie—and party, visited East Maitland and Morpeth, where they were met by deputations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturday's Cheap Train. Departmental Bungling
IN November last, in anticipation of a further period of hot weather, the people of Singleton were anxious to secure a cheap train to Newcastle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Female Tram Guards
In Santiago end Valparaiso women are employed as conductors on tramways. They wear a dark-blue uniform with a will to apron tied with red ribbons, and large white…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident on the Zig-zag. a Train Runs Away. Sydney
Another accident is [?] the Zig-Zag. It appears that a mixed train from Penrith to Eskbank was proceeding over the top points, when it became unmanageable, through the…
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IT is notified in our business columns that the annual picnic of railway em[?] ployees on the section Singleton to Werris Creek will be held on Muswell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the Murder of Mr. De Kock. Guerilla Tactics. Shooting Women and Children. Boer Movements. Activity of General French. Kitchener's Plan. Cape Raiders Routed. Boer Train Wreckers in Natal. London, April 4
Lord Kitchener is erecting along the railway lines high Martello towers, so as to enable a minimum number of troops to protect the railways and the bridges. The towers will contain loopholes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old Road-books
Old road-books of the days when mall-coaches were in their sreatest perfection, and of the more remote era of postchaises and travelling on horseback by forgotten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident on the Zig-Zag. a Train Runs Away
Another accident is reported to have occurred on the Zig-Zig. It appears that a mixed train from Penrith to Eskbank was proceeding. over the top points, when it became unmangeable, through the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Proposed Railway to Cassilis. Progressive Reports
Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, M.P. for Rylstone, has received the following communication concerning the pro posed railway extension to Cas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employees' Picnic
THE annual picnic of railway em ployees on the section Singleton to Tamworth will be held on the Muswellbrook Show Ground to day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Rats Railway
The owner of the greatest number of welltrained rats is undoubtedly M. Dourof, a Russian, who has made it the business'of his life to carefully study the habits of these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Boers Train Horses. Cruel but Effective
AN Englishman who spent several years among the Boers in South Africa, was recently asked whether the Boers kept their horses in the trenches with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Employees' Picnic
THE annual picnic of railway employees on the section Singleton to Tamworth and Manilla was held on the local Show Ground, on Saturday last, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Alleged Breach of the Railways Act
Daniel O'Connor, M.L.A., appeared on summons before Mr. Edwards, S.M., at the Central Police Court, this morning, as defendant in two cases of alleged breaches of the Government Railways laws…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harden. a Fatal Casualty on the Railway
About six o'clock this morning a shunter found the body of Richard Walker lying between the rails of the line a short distance from the platform. Deceased, who is an engine driver, is supposed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. the Western Railway
SIR,—I see that a deputation has been waiting on the Railway Commissioner, and also on the Premier, to urge the duplication of the Western line on the ground that it is dangerous and expensive in its…
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