Fixing Railway Rates
The United States House of Representatives, by 346 votes to 7, has passed the Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill, which empowers the Interstate Commission to 6x a just…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
940 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 47
Died in a Train
The wife of L. A. Anderson, of Mount Druitt, died in the train between Wentworthville and Parramatta this morning. Mrs. Anderson consulted a doctor at St. Mary's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring Extraordinary
More than one car has demonstrated its ability to ascent the flight of stone steps in the Crystal Palace grounds, and a similar performance has been effected on the steps of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death in a Train Sydney
This morning, when the railway train was between Wentworthville and Parramatta, Mrs L. A. Anderson, of Mount Druitt, died in a carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Werris Creek. Mishap to a Train
The incoming mail train from Sydney, to Moree this morning had a narrow escape from being wrecked about a mile from the station platform, where a number of fettlers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge's Bungle. Maitlander's Mysterious Money. Sydney
Ebenezer Benjamin Bridge, aged 33, a labourer, well-known in Maitland and district, was charged at the police court to-day with having obtained the sums of £10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Wreck a Train Explosive Placed on the Rails
The mail train from Sydney to Moree had a narrow escape from being wreeked near Worris Creek on Tuesday morning. About a mile from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Employees Conference
The annual conference of the New South Wales Railway Traffic Employees Association was opened in Sydney Trades Hall this morning. Delegates from all parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Wreck a Mall Train. Explosive Placed on the Line
A dastardly attempt to wreek the mail train from Sydney to Moree was reported on Tuesday. It appears that when the train in question was within about a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smuggling by Motor-Car
An automobile played quite an unusual role on the French frontier our day recently. At about 10 o'clock at night, the customs officer at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Novel Railway Travelling on the Mildura Line
Many complaints are heard regarding the manner in which the railway arrangements are carried out on the Mildura line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a Third-class Railway Carriage
"Many people who are otherwise scrupulously honest" (writes a correspondent of a contemporary)," take a delight in committing petty frauds on railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Case of Ebenezer Bridge
A young man named Ebenezer Benjamin Bridge, well-kuown locally, was on Tuesday, at the Central Police Court, Sydney; sentenced to six months' hard labour for obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl's Secret Bridge Debts. Promises Never to Play Again
The painful stories revealed in a recent correspondence in the "Daily Mail" of gambling among the women and young girls who frequent some of the modern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'A' Railway Outing to Maitland
The members of the local Catholic body are thinking of arranging for the running of an excursion to Maitland on the 17th proximo, and due notice of which will be given in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne. a Terrible Railway Fatality
A woman named Laurn Liddle, aged 60, fell between a train and the platform at Surry Hill Station, Melbourne, this morning, the wheels of the carriages passing oven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening of G. N. Railway to Scone
The Government kept pushing on the work of extending the Great Northern Railway, and on April 17th, 1871, the formal opening of the line to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Competition
Working arrangements have been concluded between the Midland Railway Company and London and North-Western Railway Company, to prevent wasteful competition in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Railway Accident a Man Killed [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A fatal railway accident occurred near Newcastle to-day, when a young miner named Alfred Ogilvie was run over and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by a Train
A woman, whose identity is not yet known, was knocked down by a train near Eveleigh this morning, and conveyed to the hospital, where an examination showed that the…
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