Private Railways in the State
From official returns it appears that the total mileage of private railways and tramways in New South Wales is 278 miles 47 chains. Railways carrying passengers and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
1,332 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 67
East Greta Railway
Dear Sir,—The Cessnock Progress Association has appointed three delegates, who, with other delegates from various progress assiciations, wil form a deputation to wait on the Minister for…
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A meeting of the United Church Committee appointed to provide for the religious and social needs of the people of the railway construction camps was held this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General. The Maitland Tramway
In consequence of the discontinuance of the bus traffic between East and West Maitland and the inconvenience caused to many people there by Mr. Frank Ward, secretary of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon. the Tram Strike
It is estimated that about 230 of the men who struck during the tram strike have not been reinstated. All are not drivers and conductors, but include a large number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Tramway Strike. What Might Have Been
The Secretary of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council has received the following telegram from Mr Cochrane, secretary of the Sydney Labour…
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James Garcia was a Mexican engine driver who was employed on the Rio Grande Railway. One day, a few months ago, Garcia was deriving a goods train to the Pilares…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reinstating Tram Employees
The Chief Railway Commissioner has had a busy time dealing with a number of special cases of reinstatement of tramway employees. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramways
Looking backward it seems scarcely credible that less than a week ago Sydney was afflicted by the stoppage of tramway communication, and threat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Concession to Race Clubs Reply From the Commissioners
Mr. J. Miller, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from the Secretary to the Railway Commissioners:— "Referring to the representations made by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Social Gossip an Idle Woman's Letter. Sydney, August 5, 1908. Few Trams—much Rain
Dear Madge,— We are only slowly recovering from the state of chaos that we were thown into last week. It seems hardly to be credited that an entire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Mishap
The 76-horse-power Mercedes motor car running at the rate of 110 miles an hour at Brooklands, left the track and shot the occupants 100 feet across the river Wey. Burke, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Railway Fatality. Man's Body Literally Torn to Pieces Singleton
Early this morning a gang of railway men came across the remains of a man on the Great Northern Line, a little over a quarter of a mile above the Gowrie railway gates, Singleton. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast Railway
In consequence of the continued showery weather, it has been found impossible to work on the North Coast Railway, and all hands are therefore idle. There has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East Greta Railway. Resumption Urged. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney
A deputation to-day interviewed the Minister of Works to urge the Government to resume the East Greta and Aberdare Railway. There were present, besides Messrs. Charlton, Graham,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Railway Coupling. a Invention
Messrs W. and A. Peters, of Rhyanna, near Goulburn, have invented a device which will permit of railway trucks being coupled and uncoupled from above,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Motor Accident. (By Cable). London
A motor car fell over an embankment at San Francisco, and three ladies, a boy, and a baby were killed. Burke, the mechanician of the motor was…
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The coroner concluded the inquiry at Orange on Thursday into the circumstances surrounding the death of a newly-born male child found near the Bloomfield railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway Men for the Railway
It is gleamed from a reliable source that the Railway Commissioners have practically decided in order to allay discontent amongst the dismissed tramway men to draft a fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railways Required. Connecting North and West
A deputation, representing the interests of the north-western districts, waited on Thursday upon the Minister of Works, to urge the construction of a railway from Wellington to Werris…
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