Local and General News Cheap Train to Melbourne
THE Railway Department announces the issue of cheap tickets to Melbourne by train leaving Parkes at 3.57 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1906
349 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 18
The North Coast Railway
The Minister for Works speaking at West Maitland, declared that the Government would carry out the North Coast Railway or else would go out of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Didn't Miss the Train
Some time since two merry sons from the land of the shamrock were walking down a railroad track of one of the suburban lines, and so interested were they in an animated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrors of Ocean Roads Fighting Fog and Fire
The recent wreck of the Hilda off the coast of St. Malo, and the consequent loss of 128 lives, is a reminder that man is as far from conquering the dangers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway sleepers for China
A leading Chinese merchant in Sydney vouchsafes the information that there is a splendid market for Australian [?] sleepers in China just now, where there is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some Veterans of the Iron Road
Among the most interesting relies that one dan wish to gaze on are the primitive locomotives which still linger here and there in railway stations and museums…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Freights and Fares
Thus the Bathurst Advocate :--The agitation recently raised by Mr W. W. Young, M.L.A., and the National Advocate against the excessive freights…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commission
PEOPLE are growing tired of the Railway Commission and its sorry details of bickering and bouncing, and are asking themselves if the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bogan Gate-Trundle Railway
For the completion of the unfinished portion of the contract for the construction of the railway from Bogan Gate to Trundle, five tenders were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Railway System
SEVERAL of our Western contemporaries have taken up the question and have shown that back country people suffer disability in every…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Bridge That Failed. a Board-ship Sketch. Hearts Not Trumps
Everyone on board the R.M.S. Orontes. outward bound, agreed that young Cyprinn Travers was rapidly falling a victim to the charms of Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Freights and Fares
Thus the Batchurst "Advocate":—The agitation recently raised by Mr W. H. Young, M.L A., "and the "National Advocate" against the excessive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Sydney Letter the North Coast Railway
It is a remarkable fact that nearly every public man who visits the districts on the north coast becomes an enthusiastic advocate of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cowra-Canowindra Railway
Additional interest has been aroused in the proposal to connect Cowra and Canowindra by rail in consequence of the action of the Government is having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Didn't Miss the Train
Some time since two merry sons from the lard of the shamrock were walking down a railroad track of one of the suburban lines, and so interested were they in an animated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peak Hiil-Baldery Road
THE Works Department hare approved of a grant of £25 being made available for repairs to the Balderodgery-Peak Hill road, which, for a long time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fugitive Notes. North Coast Railway
Mr Carruthers advises the people on the Northern rivers to educate the people of Sydney upon the advantages of the proposed North Coast railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pebilous Train Packing. Serious Side of Strap-hanging Method
The dangerous overcrowding on the District Railway since its electrification is to be brought before the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Runaway Tramway. Eighteen Passengers Hurt
The Paris correspondent of the London "Express" wrote on 9th January:— Eighteen passengers were injured by jumping from a runaway tramcar on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Tragedy. Heiress Killed and Millionaire Injured
A terrible motor accident occurred in Long Island on 19th November, in which Mrs Frances Burton Harrison, daughter-in-law of the authoress,…
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