Heavy Train Traffic. Prosperous Holiday Season
New Year's Day has come to be regarded as the principal holiday of the year, though it is being pressed closely by Wight Hour Day, which is yearly becoming more…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
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Train Wrecked. Six Killed, Thirteen Injured. Sharon (North Dakota). Dec. 30
A Great Northern holiday train has been wrecked here, as a result of a broken rail Six of the passengers were, killed, and 13 injured…
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A meeting of the local branch of the Muswellbrook-Maryvale Railway League will be held at the School of Arts at 8 o'clock to-night (Saturday), to elect a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Costly Railway Work
The works now being carried on to relieve the congested railway traffice through the "bottle neck" at Sydney means a large outlay. The Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Smash at Moore Park. Rev. E F Waddy Injured
A collision occurred on the Randwiekroad. Moore Park, outside the Zoo gates, on Tuesday afternoon, between a motor cycle and a motor car, and the Rev. E. F. Waddy…
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A deputation representing the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association, waited on Mr. Daccy, the State Treasurer, and brought under his notice several matters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daring Railway Robbery. Oregon Express. Redding (California)
Two unmasked men robbed the north bound Oregon express of the Southern Pacific Company. The men forced an entrance near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Accident. Driver's Serious Injuries
A serious motor accident occurred Friday at Barratta. 28 miles west of [?]liquin. A car owned and driven by Dean, of Balranald, left early with…
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In connection with the fatality on Tuesday morning, no neir Moonbi, a coroner's inquiry was commenced at Moonbi. The position of the [?]…
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London, Wednesday.-British, French, and Russian syndicates are subscribing £1OO,OOO to finally survey the route of a railway to connect RuSsia and India,…
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Suburban trains at Bondy came into collision, with the result that nine persons were killed and seventeen injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Smash. Machine Collides with Post
The Australian aviator, Mr W. E. Hart, had his first smash on Saturday, while carrying a passenger, Major C. Rosenthal, officer commanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMMERCIAL. John Bridge and Co.'s, Ltd., Report
Hides.—We submitted a large and uttractive catalogue, and found the market firm and unchanged, have rates being readily forthcoming. Calfskins were…
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The Government has decided to make Important concessions in the lower grades of the railway and tramway service. They include the recognition of an eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Christmas Railway Strike. Union Secretary Prevents. London, Monday afternoon
Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, speaking at Cardiff, stated that he freely accepted the responsibility of…
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The masters have accepted, but the railway men have rejected, the offered intervention of the Minister of the Interior. A widespread strike for increased pay and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Singleton Argus TUESDAY,JANUARY 9th. Political Railway Control
The public are accustomed to hear all sorts of charges made against the railway management of this State, that most of the objections to the system under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Present Railway Administration. Mr Dacey Tired
Mr. Dacey, the State Treasurer, is tired on the existing administration of the Railway Department, ami declared, in answer to a deputation, that it was a…
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Twenty persons were killed, and 40 injured, in the wreck of a passenger train at Bondy, near Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Train Wrecked. St. Joseph (Missouri), Jan. 9
The Rock Island passenger train was wrecked at Platt River through a collision with a freight train. The death roll is at present unknown…
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