Serious Railway Accident
The railway accident at Willesden Junction on Monday, which resufted in injurice to fifty passengers, of whom four have [?] was simple in general outline though…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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St. Gotthard Railway to Italy
The St. Gotthard Railway Company was founded at Lucerne, 1871, to meet the demand for a Swiss railway to [?] The Brenner and the [?] Cenis lines at that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →France's State Railway. Extensive Works in Progress. Paris. Jan. 11
The disorganisation of the Western State railway, owing to the suspension of the navigation of the Seine, due to floods has proved a serious detriment to trade. The…
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Henry Wilson Webb, 17 years of age, was charged at the North Sydney Police Court with having maliciously damaged a leather bag issued by the Tramway…
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Full particulars, which have now been received, of the fatul train accident at Catheart,, reveal the terrible sufferings of the injured and dying. As the train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Traction. Use on the Farm. an Interesting Paper
In a paper read at a conference or formers in Adelaide, Mr W. Hunt writes;—It is over 30 years since the traction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Australian Aeroplane. Successful Flight. Perth (W.a.)
Perth was startled this morning by the sight of a strange craft hovering around the city at an altitude of 12500 feet. The discovery of this strange aerial object, even…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lost in the Air. News Delivery by Aeroplane. Vancouver, Jan. 8
M. Didier Masson, a French aviator, in flying from town to town delivering newspapers. lost his way in the mountains at Pomona, California. He landed repaired his aeroplane, and resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway and Tramway Revenue
The revenue earned by the railways and tramways continues to show increases as compared with the takings last year. The returns for the week ended January 7…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Traction. Use on the Farm. an Interesting Paper
In a paper read at a conference of farmers in Adelaide, Mr W. Hunt writes:—It Is over 30 years since the traction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Railway Washaway
The heavy rain during the early hours of Thursday morning caused damage to a railway embankment on the Aberdare line, between Aberdare junction and North Kurri…
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The trains on the Canadian Union Pacific lines will in future carry a permanen armed guard, as a precaution against [?]bery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hawes Railway Disaster
The inquest on the victims of the disas-ter to the Scottish express near Hawes on Christmas Eve has concluded. The jury re-turned a verdict of accidental death, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Minimum Wage. Adopted on Railways
Mr. Carmichael. the Assistant Treasurer, was asked by a pressman if any further steps had been taken in the matter of fixing a minimum wage for Government employees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Boat in Samoa. Expediences and Adventures
The Rev. J. W. Sibree, of the L.M.S. Mission in German Samoa thus writes to "News from Afar." of his experiences and adventures with a motor boat in Samoa…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Cape Railway Disaster. Terrible Suffering. Capetown, Jan. 9
Full particulars. which have now been received, of the fatal train accident at Catheart reveal the terrible sufferings of the injured and dying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
In connection with the railway fatality half-way between Hawkesbury River and Woy Woy on Wednesday week when two telegraph line constructors, Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A New Aeroplane
Mr. de Havilland. who is attached to the staff of the A[?]my Balloon Works, carried passengers in steady flights on an acroplane from Farnborough to Lafian's plain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensational Escape of the Morpeth Tram
A Morpeth correspondent writes:— At 10.30 o'clock last night we were sitting in our balcony discussing the prospects of a flood (which, by the way. happened at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very Latest Cables. Portoguese Strikers. Railway Property Commandeered Lisbon. Jan. 14
The railway companies whose men are now on strike offer an increase of wages which will cost them £80,000. the inauguration of a nine hours'' day. and the granting of free passes…
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