Railway Fatality
Just as the 3.45 p.m. train from Sydney to Newcastle had started from Thornleigh station for Hornsby on Wednesday last, the guard heard someone in the rear call out…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
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Wool and Wheat on the Railway
The wool traffic on the railways for date the wool traffic on the railways for the current season is about 100,000 bales in excess of that for the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Round Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal (says a correspondent in the "Times") has hitherto made a very troublesome break in the continuancy of the great Siberian railway. This large sheet of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melville Bridge
On Friday last Mr W. Bennett, M L A., introduced a deputation consisting of Mr A. T. Lswrie (Chairman of the Port Steph[?]ns Pastures…
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Work in connection with the new bridge across the Bunter River, connecting Singleton with Duuolly, is progressing satisfactorily. The underground…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales. John Bridge & Co's Report
For our sixth sale of the season we brought forward on Monday a catalogue of 3328 bales, which compared with that previously submitted, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Terrors. Experience in America
Thanks to young William K. Vanderbilt, brother of the Duchess of Marlborough, america, has had the first of a series of international automobile road races, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Company's Texts
A Georgia railway company has posted in the passenger cars the following notices:— "Then shall not pass."—Numbers xx., 18. "None shall ever pass."—Isa, XXXIV., 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deviation of the Great Northern Road. (To the Editor of the Chronicle.)
DEAR SIR,—I wish, through your columns, to call the attention of our residents to the alterations made in the railway crossings at the northern end of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plague of Locusts. Railway Train Blocked
On Tuesday the arrival of the train at Bendigo (Vic.) was so far behind scheduled time that those awaiting it were afraid that something serious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plague of Locusts. Railway Train Blocked
On Tuesday the arrival of the train at Bendigo (Vic.) was so far behind scheduled time that those awaiting it were afraid that something serious…
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A case of importance to carriers and others was dealt with at the Glen Innes court, when the police proceeded against a teamster named E. Booth for negligently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Siberian Railway
Simple figures convoy to one's mind the best picture of this immense railroad. The total length of the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-Car Terrors. Experience in America
Thanks to young William K. Vanderbilt, brother of the Duchess of Marlborough, America, has had the first of a series of international automobile road races, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Competition with Railways
" There is something rotten in the State of Denmark," as far as our railway system is concerned. Traction engines and horse and bullock teams are being freely used, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cape to Cairo Railway
The extension of the Cape to Cairo railway 350 miles north of the Zambesi has been authorised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sketcher. Crack Goods Trains. The Fastest Luggage Carriers of English Railways
The Great Northern Railway Company is an easy first, both in regard to the speed and the number of its Merchandise expresses, for this company stands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners
THERE is a popular delusion that the Railway Commissioners are by law exempt from outside interference, short of the combined action of both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bridge Works
There is a full at present in the normal activity connected with the works of the Dunolly bridge. In lieu of the sound of hammers and the creak of winches and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock Killed in Railway Transit
A matter of importance, namely, the mortality amongst stock during transit on the railways, was brought under the notice of the railways Commissioners on the 23rd…
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