Dublin Express Train Derailed
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1903 · page 3
Two bogie wheels and a piece of truck, which were placed on the line, derailed the Dublin night express at Ballymoe. A carriage telescoped. One passenger was killed, and eight others were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Tram Accident
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1903 · page 3
A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the inquest on the body of the old man, John Hunter, who died from the effects of injuries sustained through endeavouring to alight from a moving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Baghdad Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1903 · page 3
The Standard states that an agreement has been concluded between Great Britain, France, and Germany to participate equally in controlling the proposed Baghdad railway. The Turkish Customs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Tramp Abroad."
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 April 1903 · page 2
Not the literary tramp, a la "Mark Twain," but the übiquitous Australian tramp, caused by the exigencies of hard times to enter upon a nomadic course of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bishop's Bridge Progress Commute. Annual Meeting
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 6
The second annual meeting of the Bishop's Bridge Progress Committee was held at Mrs. O'Brien's on Wednesday evening last. The President (Mr. T. O'Counell) occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Baghdad Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 3
The Imperial Ottoman Balghdad Railway has been [?]tuted at Constantinople with a capital of 15,000,000fr. (£600,000). Herr Arthur Gwinner, one of the managers of the Deutsche Bank, Berlin, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Necessary Branch Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 2
THE short line of railway from Miller's Forest to Tarro which Mr. O'Sullivan has promised to submit at the carliest opportunity to his colleagues has a better warrant than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Accidents in Sydney. an M.L.A. INJURED Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 3
As the Leichhardt tram, bound for the Circular Quay, was proceeding along the Parramatta Road this morning it collided with a cart, and the vehicle was badly smashed, and Mr. R. Davidson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Baghdad Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 3
Its German Emperor has sent a German official, [?] formerly studying the possibilities of the [?] Baghdad railway, to investigate American [?] of colonising the land along the great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway from Tarro to Miller's Forest
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2
Representatives from the Miller's Forest Railway Committee, together with residents of Tarro, Raymond Terrace, and Nelson's Plains, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Accident
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2
Mr R. Davidson, M.L.A., was badly injured to day in a tram collision on the Parramatta road. His right leg was broken, and he was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicyclist Beats a Train
Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 3
A BICYCLIST missed the Maryborough main at closes (Vic.) on Monday, but mounting his machine he sped, away towards Creswick, in tie hope of there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident at Redfern Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 3
A verdict of occidental death was returned at the inquest on tho body of John Connell, who was fatally injured yesterday during shunting operations at Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Accidents in Sydney. AN M.L.A. INJURED. Sydney
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 3
As the Leichhardt tram, bound for the Circular Quay, was proceeding along the Parramatta Road this morning it collided with a cart, and the vehicle was badly smashed, and Mr. R. Davidson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Baghdad Railway. London, April 13
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 2
Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that all questions relating to the Baghdad railway were still under consideration on the basis that British capital and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tarro to Miller's Forest Railway
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 10
On Tuesday a deputation representing the Miller's Forest Railway Committee and the residents of Tarro interviewed the Hen. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister of Works, in Sydney, and urged upon him the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Something Like a Railway
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 9
A central terminal station for London has often been talked of, but New York is talking of building one. It will be the railway hub of America,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Baghdad Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 3
The Times tentatively suggests the inquiry if British capital is invested in the Baghdad railway whether it ought not to be expended at the Koweyt end, and the extension of the railway thence inland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collapse in a Train. a Sad Spectacle
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 4
A SAD and distrossing sight was witnessed at the Church-street railway station, West Maitlannd, on Friday afternoon, on the arrival of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Plea for the Tramway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2
MR. O'SULLIVAN, replying to the deputation which urged upon the Government the construction of a branch railway from Miller's Forest to Tarro, took occasion to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →