General News. London, Thursday. It is announced that the railway workshon
[?] men who went on strike for a 10/ rise weekly have been granted a 5/ per week war bonus, which has also been granted to other railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1916
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Thornton-Aberdare Railway
The Public Works Committee has submitted to Pharliament its report on the proposed railway line from Thornton to Aberdare. The committee recommends that it is not expedient…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Friday, October 6. (Before Mr. W. J. M. Fincham, P.m.) a Railway Case
Harry Jones, 59, for being drunk on the West Maitland railway station last evening was fined 5/, in default 24 hours imprisonment. Constable Hill stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car and Cart Collide
A SENSATIONAL accident occurred at the eastern approach to Sydney-street railway crossing at about 12.40 p.m. on Monday, when a collision occurred…
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A meeting of the committee in connection with the above will be held in St. John's schoolroom on Tuesday evening next at 8.15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A British Siege Gun Which Travels by Train
Big siege guns of the type shown in the picture have proved very effective in the Somme offensive. These guns are known as the "railroad truck" siege guns. Our photo, shows one of the monsters being fired…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Railway Station Needed
A large number of the travelling public, besides business people and other residents of Cessnock are of opinion that the local railway station building have outlived their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast. Railway Commissioners' in Spection. Banana Cultivation
The Deputy Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. James Fraser, accompanied by Mr. E. Milne, Assistant Commissioner, and the principal heads of the Railway Department, have…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Employees. Increases in Wages
The Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association has secured an increase of 6d a day in the wages of traversers' labourers employed at the Eveleigh car and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Transcontinental Railway. Original Estimate Exceeded
Expenditure on the transcontinental railway up to 1st uly last has exceeded the original estimate of £4,045,646 by £704,040. Mr. Bell, the chief engineer, estimates that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Rains. Railway Traffic Delayed. Sydney
Rains continue practically throughout the State Exceptionally heavy falls have occurred in many places, and railway traffic has been delayed on many lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Traffic Restored
The Railway Department announces that railway traffic, which had been interfered with by floods in some places, has been restored on all lines. The services between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cycling
Jack Booth, the crack Victorian motor cyclist, made a successful attempt at Adelaide on Saturday to break the world's one mile cycle record. The trial took place on a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Market Report. John Bridge Co., Ltd. Report
Wool.—The rains are having the effect of delaying arrivals of wool, and also of putting off shearing for a time; a check in the offerings may be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Re Upper Hunter Dry Road. (To the Editor)
As will be seen from the report of the meeting held at Moonan on the 30th ult., the scheme has now resolved itself into a tangible form…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Timetable. Sydney and Maitland
Trains leave West Maitland for sydney at 2.13 a.m. (North-West Mail), 4.29 a.m. (Glen innes mail, Mondays excepted), 5.40 a.m., Brisbane mail 7.40 a.m., 8.14 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Important Judgment. Railway Refreshment Rooms
An Important judgment, affecting the position of railway refreshment rooms In the supply of liquor was delivered by Mr. Nesbitt, S.M., In the Adelaide Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grosford Motor Service
Messrs. Grey and Hancock intimate that they will run their motor lorry from Gresford every Wednesday for parcels and luggage, leaving Grosford at 7.15 a.m., and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Business Capacity. Dodge Bros. Motor Car. Growing Success
Dodge Brothers, Detroit, are the actual, active superintendents, engineers, managers and owners of the Dodge Brothers Motor Car business…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Happy Wounded. "HAIl, Smiling Morn" of the Ambulance Train
One of the nurses attached to an ambulance train in France writes:—We are having a very busy time in the trains, 'going backward and forward as hard…
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