The Tram Proposal
Sir,- Just a few lines in your paper to express my wonder what tho people of Maitland and surrounding districts are doing to stand idly by and not interest themselves in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
586 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 30
The Tramway Employees
The Tramway Employees Union is not satisfied with the concession of eight hour and now intend to demand that all overtime be payed for at the rate of tima and a half and Sunday labour at tho rate of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motor Race
Marcel Renauet is declared the winner of the motor race from Paris to Vienna, and five Frenchmen next. British and German competitors are disgusted with the officials unfairness and declared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Railway Fatality. Ganger Mutilated and Killed
A FATAL railway accident occurred at Katoomba on Tuesday afternoon. John Cliff, sen., who has been ganger on that section for 2S years, left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train Gone Wrong
A train in India was derailed and wrecked by a cyclone. Thirteen persons were killed and fifteen injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Contract
An American firm him obtained the railway contract for the electric Manchester to Liverpool line, the amount being four millions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[All Rights Reserved.] Romances of the Road. a Duel on Wimbledon
The name of Thomas James Brudenol, sixth Earl of Cardigan, and the last of his line, will recall to most readers of history the plains of Balaclava and the charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Office of the Railway Commissioners, Sydney, July 1st, 1902
Sir,—With reference to your call urging that the Muswellbrook railway station might be lit with gas from the municipal gas works, I am directed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Aberdare Railway
The construction of the branch line of railway to connect the A.A. Company's and Aberdare Coal Company's' new collieries with the Stanford-Merthyr line, a mile and a quarter above…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Tram Proposal
SIR,—Just a few lines in your paper to express my wonder what the people of Maitland and surrounding districts are doing to stand idly by and not interest themselves in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →East India Railway
The East India Railway Company has ordered thirty-two locomotives, from a German firm, whoso price was 20 per cent. lower, and whoso time for delivery was 25 per cent., sooner than the nearest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Tramway Accident. London, July 6
A terrible accident occurred on the electric tramway line at Gloversville, New York, on Saturday. An electric car, with 70 excursionists aboard, while descending a mountain along a gradient of 1000ft. in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Tramway Accident. An Electric Car Runs Away. LONDON
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the electric tramway line at Gloversvills, New York, on Saturday. An electric ear, with 50 excursionists aboard,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident
While a train was proceeding from London to Bognor, a watering place in Sussex, it derailed , and 10 passengers were injured, nine of them seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Big Bridge
One of the Sydney morning papers has taken a statesmanlike view of the proposal to spend at this unhappy crisis in State affairs, an unprofitable million…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North Shore Bridge Proposal
The S.M. Herald, of July 2, discussing the opening of the tenders for the North Share bridge pertinently says:-" Are we now in a position to enter upon the work of constructing a bridge of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatality During a Sham Fight. Explosion on an "Armored Train."
DURING the progress of a fireworks display and sports carnival on the Armidale Showgronnd on Tuesday two accidents happened, one of which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →England's First Passenger Train. Its First Trip Described by the Man Who Held the Throttle
It will surprise most people to learn that one of the men who stood on the footplate of George Stephenson's famour Rocket when it drew the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight Hours for the Railway Men
A disturbance of the friendly relations that have hitherto existed between the Employees of the Railway Department and the…
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