The March of the Motor
The passing of an Act of Parliament to regulate motor car driving indicates the rapid march of the motor. a record of the extension of the use of motor driven vehicles…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
1,317 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 66
Late News by Wire Sydney, Wednesday, afternoon. Fall From a Tram
James Martin, a barman, fell from a tram, severely injured his face, and is in a serious condition…
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The Minister of Works states that all possible expedition will bo used in pushing forward the completion of the North Coast Railway. The surveying party is able to…
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Considerable interest is being taken in the coming exhibition in Sydney of a Wilbur Wright fluing machine. The machine, which has been engaged to tour…
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On Monday next, an earlier morning train will be despatched from Sydney to Mainland. Under the now arrange ment, Newcastle can bo reached at 10.25…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General News. New Train Arrangements
Particulars of the new train arrangements to come into force on Sunday next will be found in this issue…
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The returns from the railways and tramways continue large. The railway revenue for the week which ended on the 16th instant amounted to £121,099, as against £112,336 for the…
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Preliminary preparations have been made both at Tam and Wingham for erecting the station buildings. The railway station at Taree will be built on a platform of wood, and will comprise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Very Latest Cables. New Zealand Railways. a Sensible Policy. London, Wednesday afternoon
The "Financial News" states that. the announcement made by the Government of New Zealand that in future they will not construct railways which are unlikely to pay, is an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall From a Tram. (By Telegraph). Sydney
James Martin, 23, a (barman, fell from the tram at Bridge-street, Drummoyne, this morning and was severely injured, about the head and face. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Tram Accident. (By Telegraph). Sydney
A little girl whoso name is at pre sent unknown, fell out of a moving tram on the Botany road this afternoon, and fractured her skull She died…
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A test has been made at the Portland Cement Co.'s works of an invention which, it is claimed by Mr A. R. Angus, of Sydney, will prevent railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full Speed Into a Wall. Two Ladies Killed in Motor Car Accident
A motor car catastrophe, resulting in the death of two ladies and serious injury to two gentlemen and a chauffeur, occurred yesterday at sundown between Wiesbaden…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplane Flight in Australia
Mr Colin De Freiss, under ougage ment to J. and N. Tait, as a passenger by the R.M.S. Orontes for Sydney, which has arrived at Fremantle, where he will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Naval Aeroplane. Inventors Moved to Laughter
A trial was made at Portsmouth on August 7 of another naval airship, again the product of the fertile brains of two officers of the Submarine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Train Arrangements
Several important alterations in the train arrangements for the Singleton and Newcastle and Sydney passenger services will come into force as from to-morrow…
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At Adelaide on Wednesday, Frederick Owst Atkinson, commercial traveller, claimed £250 damages from Alexander Moss, money-lender, for assaulting him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Carriage Window Broken
When the Moree mail was passing though from Newcastle to Maitland last night, a large piece of coal was thrown through the glass panel of the door of one of the carriages in which six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Express Train Derailed. London
Boys playing with a switch on the Canadian-Pacific railway caused a com plete derailment of an express train it North Bay, in Ontario, 364 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conquest of the Air the Aeroplane. Its Birth and Evolution
Everything must have a beginning; but in many cases that beginning is so "wrapt in mystery" as to preclude the possibility of discovering it (says the…
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