Attempted Train-wrecking. On the Queensland Railway
An attempt was made on Tuesday to wreek the Maryborough-Kilkivan train, between Tiaro and Kilkivan Junction. It appears a dog spike was securely…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
1,332 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 67
The Maitland Tramway
Owing to the want of sufficient ballast, operations in connection with the construction of the Mailand Tramway have been hampered somewhat during the past few days, but Mr. Champion, the…
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That the holiday was closely observed yesterday and large numbers of people, as has become the custom on New Year's Day, made their way to Newcastle and its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Express Train Robbed. Daring Chime. Shots in a Guard's Van. Case-boxes Stolen
A telegram published in the "Daily Mail," dated Paris, Friday, November 22, states:—Three robbers made a most daring attack on a French mail train-near Paris this morning…
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At the Maitland Motor Garage there are in stock De Dion's 8 h.p. single cylinder, 10 and 12 h.p. double, and 14 h.p. four-cylinder machines, Continental tyres and…
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Tryon, driving a 60-horse-power Napier motor car on the Brooklands course, at the rate of 85 miles an hour, burst a tyre. The motor jumped the embankment, and Tryon was…
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One thousand motor 'busmen struck, owing to the employers offering to pay pay number of journeys instead of by the day…
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A receiver han boon appointed in connection with the Seaboard Air Line, the third most important railway company of the Eastern American railway system, with a…
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Early in the session the Federal Parliament passed the Transcontinental Railway Bill, authorising an expenditure of £20,000 in the survey of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Doctor's Motor Car. (By Telegraph). Sydney
The driver of a doctor's motor car was to-day find £5 for exceeding the limit of eight miles an hour in Williamstreet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Very Latest Cables. London, Sunday afternoon. Railway Arbitration Scheme
Mr. Richard Bell, secretory of the Railway Servants' Association, on behalf of the railway men, complains that the London and North-Western Railway Company, are taking a ballot…
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Nine hundred motor 'busreen who care on like because the owners propose to pay them [?] cerding to the number of trips run instead [?] according to the number of hours worked,…
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The laying of the tramway line from East to West Maitland, has been further extended towards High-street Railway gates, and it is expected, that a start. will be mode in High-street shortly. For…
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Operations in connection with the construction of the Maitland tramway, which were interfered with by the Christmas and New Year holidays, and considerably…
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Some short time since representations were made to the Railway Commissioners of the necessity of having station accommodation provided at Hilldale and Martin's Creek, instead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Across Africa in a Motor Car. Dynamiting Through Mountains. Thrilling Adventures
Lieutenant Paul Graetz, of the German Army, telegraphs to the London "Daily Mail" a vivid narrative of his progress in a 45-h.p. motor-car across Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Killed by a Tram
The body of a man run over by a train at Balmain last night, has been identified as that of a carter named Augustus Oldfield. It is not known how decased came to be lying across the line…
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Eight hundred 'busmen in London were dismissed on refusing to resume duty, because they objected to be paid by the number of trips run instead of by the hour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road at Luskintyre
Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Works Department in regard to a letter presented by himself and Mr. W. Brown, M.L.A., from Mr. H. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train-wrecker's Confession. Wanted to See What It Would Do."
Walters Macleay, who is charged with having attempted to wreek the Adelaide express early on the morning of December 14, appeared before the…
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