Brigade Motors
Wanganui, New Zealand, boasts a well-equipped fire brigade, and claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
1,611 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 81
Serious Railway Accident
The railway accident at Willesden Junetion on Monday, which resulted in injurice to fifty passengers, of whom four have succumised was simple in general outline though…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Oldest Railway Servant Fifty-six Years Among Trains
Mr William Farquahar, who will shortly retire from the railway service, can claim to be not only the oldest employee in the New South Wales railways, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disasters in America. In Mine and on Railways. Vancouver
A powder magazine in the Keating mine Raderburg, Montana, has exploded. Six people were killed, and two others were injured. The force of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Fatality
Among the visitors to the Clare, South Australia, races on Wednesday, were a party comprising Mr B. May, of Gawler, his wife, and sister-in?law, and a niece,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Motor Breaks Down
A few days age Mr. J. Enright junior went to the Gloucester district in his motor but coming down a steep pinch at Ward's River, the steering gear broke, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Strike at Johannesburg. Obnoxious Inspector Withdrawn. Johannesburg
The conductors and motor men at Johannesburg demanded the dismissal of an obnoxious inspector, and their request being refused struck. All the trams were stopped, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collisions. Engines Crash into Standing Train
A slight collision between two runaway engines (coupled together) and a train of empty carriages took place near the loce, innction. Eveleigh, early on…
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M. Weyman, the aviator, journeyed in an aeroplane, from Paris to Chalons, a distance of 26 1/2 miles, carrying three passengers. The 26 1/2 miles were covered in 27 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Long Way Round. An Aeroplane Wanted
A remarkable practical example of the saying, "so near and yet so far," was brought to notice in Cooma on Friday us the result of a public school teacher's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Coilision in Wales. Ghastly Scenes. London, Jan. 23
A serious railway disaster has occurred in Wales, and it is feared that, many lives have been lost. A passenger train collided with a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Singleton Letter. Victim to Railway Accident
The young man, Joseph Milligan, who was injured on the railway line at Branxton on Thursday night last, died in the Dangar Cottage Hospital yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vagaries of our Railway Timetable. (To the Editor of the Chronicle)
Dear Sir,—Being at Quirindi last Friday, I desired to leave by the northwast mail to enable me to arrive at Muswellbrook in time to catch the…
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Paris, Monday.—M. Weyman, the aviator, journeyed in an aeroplane from Paris to Chalons a distance of 26½ miles, carrying three passengers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Smash at Adamstown. Coal Waggons Telescoped
An accident having a remarkable resemblance to that which occurred at the eCutral Railway Station, Sydney, on Saturday morning, took place on Monday…
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London, Monday.— A serious railway disaster has occurred in Wales, and it is feared that many lives have been lost. A passenger train collided with a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Driver Committed
Some time ago a cab proprietor named William Wright, aged 63, was killed in a collision with a train in Pitt-street, Sydney, when the train crashed into him,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Railway Accident
At Lithgow this morning Frank Bogg, aged 58, a resident of Sydney, and employed on the railway, fell beneath an engine. When he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scotch Railway Engines. Wanted in France. Paris
The French Government has ordered for its railways seventy large locomotives from Glasgow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision in Wales. Ghastly Scenes. London, Jan. 23
A SERIOUS railway disaster has occurred in Wales, and it is feared that many lives have been lost. A passenger train collided with a…
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