Holiday Train Traffic
The unfavourable weather conditions which interfered with the intentions of many prospective pleasure-seekers yesterday were, of course, reflected in the train traffic, which…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1918
905 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 46
Sydney and Suburban Trams
During the past four days sydney and suburban trams carried ever 2,000,000 passengers without a solitary accident having been reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Holiday Traffic Rail and Tram Decrease. Loyalists Rewarded. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
During the four principal days of the Xmas and New Year holidays the railways and tramways in the metropolitan area carried 2,300,000 passengers, being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Free Refreshments Aboard. Y.M.C.A. on Train with Australian Soldiers
One of the latest phases of the work of the Y.M.C.A. for Australian soldiers in France is for a red triangle truck to be included in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extracts From Letters of Miss McADAM. of Aberdeen. A.I.F. War Chest Club, Horseferry Road, London
My letter to day will be full of air raids and the awful times we have had in London this harvest moon. Never before has this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Takes Fire
Amsterdam, Wednesday.—A telegram from Vienna gives accounts of a disaster in Austria. A passenger train at Sambor, in Galicia. caught fire while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mexican Massacre. a Train Held Up. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.)
Portland (O.), Thursday Night. Mexico City reports that a train was held up at Pitahaya and 107 persons massacred…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Struck by a Motor Car
Emanuel Salter (15) was hanging on the back of a South Melbourne tram when the conductor warned him and others off. Salter jumped and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Astounding Motor Tyre Figures
Some idea of the vast scale on which the rubber industry is conducted in Akron, United States of America (the rubber capital of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Railways. Passenger Trains Withdrawn. Washington
Hundreds of passenger trains on the railroads west of the Missisisppi are to be withdrawn from service soon. It is announced by Director McAdoo that many offices in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Railways. State Control. Vancouver
Wall Street was in a ferment this morning when it was announced that the Government is taking over the railways which have been regarded as the investment now…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Accidents
Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent reports that trains came into collision at Spornlak, Posen. All the carriages were destroyed. Thirteen persons were killed, and 70 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Shipbuilding. Motor-car Ford's Idea. Washington
In order to relieve the congested shipyards, Mr. Ford proposes the establishment of new mammoth shipyards on the southern coast, where standardised ships can…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dash for Freedom. Airman's Long Tramp From Germany
Lieut. Lawrence A. Wingfield, R.F.C., who escaped from the Germans at Stroken, has arrived in London, looking very fit, after a most thrilling experience…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Boating Disaster. Motor Launch Capsizes. Sydney
As the result of being caught by the southerly in Botany Bay, off Doughboy, on Monday afternoon, a motor launch was capsized and its occupants—three men—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robberies From Railways. Whisky and Wearing Apparel
A number of robberies from the railways, especially on the south coast line, have been worrying the police a good deal of late. It was believed that the goods were stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Canadian Train Wrecked. Montreal
Seven Canadian soldiers, several of whom were returning from overseas, and all bound for Vanconver, were killed in a train wreck on the Canadian-Pacific railway here last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Overturns. Whole Family Injured
A serious accident occurred in Glebe Point-road, Sydney, on Saturday night; whon a whole family was injured as a result of their car overturning. Mrs. Ada…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Upper Hunter Dry Road Scheme
From Mr. Mac Abbott, M.L.A., acknowledging receipt of Council's letter re Upper Hunter dry road scheme, and stating that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early Morning Smash. at Central, Railway Station
As a result of a collision at the Central Railway Station early this morning between a number of railway carriages, a twin timed to leave at 2.30 with newspapers and…
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