Wireless Message to a Moving Train
Signals were recently exchanged, between a station and a train which was running at the rate of 50 miles, an hour. No attempt was made to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1904
158 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 8
A Railway Clerk's Income
My husband is a railway booking clerk whose avenge wage with Sunday pay, is £1 16s per week. Herewith I enclose table of weekly expenditure:—Husband's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Queen Almost Run Over by a Tram-car
Queen Olgo of Greece, the sister-in-law of Queen Alexandra, was recently very nearly run over by a tram-car in Attune. Her Majesty left the Palace with Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a Third-class Railway Carriage
The following amusing dialogue took place a short time back, which might be a warning to outspoken people. Just as a train was about to start out of Manchester…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Express Electric Tramway
We must go to Detroit to find the fastest tram in the world, which traverses a journey of 40 miles, including stoppages, in two hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That Tramway Accident
At the inquest on the body of William Snelling, the victim of the recent tram smash at Randwick, the jury returned a verdict of manulaughter against the Pointsmand Denis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improvement of Mitchell's Island Road. Public Works Department, Sydney, 11th April, 1904
SIR,--With reference to your letter of 28th ultimo, urging the improvement of the road from Mitchell's Island road to P. Wall's, I have the honor to inform you the Minister has approved of an expenditure of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official Correspondence. Improvement of Road at Stewart's River. Public Works Department, Sydney, 1th April, 1904
SIR,--With reference to your letter of 5th instant, urging improvements (erection of box culvert, forming, etc.), on the road leading from Stewart's River Camden Haven road to McGovern's, I have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor Dog
'L;Illustration,' a Paris journal, publishes the portrait of an apparently new animal, a kind of dog, with eyes literally as big as saucers, and an extra cuticle,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improvement to Glenthorne Road. Public Works Department. Sydney. 15th April. 1904
SIR,--With reference to your letter of 8th inst., urging improvements to the road leading from Taree ferry-Glenthorne wharf to Cubba Creek and "Come" well." I have the honor to inform you that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipalities and Road Rollers
A CASE of considerable importance to municipalities, that of Blair v. the Borough of Woollahra, was decided in the District Court last week, before Judge Bogars. Plaintiff claimed £200 damages for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Tenders
THE following were the lowest tenders opened by Mr. G. S. Mullen, Road Superintendent, at the Court House, Taree, yesterday--Friday:-- 55:03-4-- Stewart's River to Upper Camden Haven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train to Travel 300 Miles an Hour
Dr. Albertson, a Distinguished electrical engineer of the Royal University of Denmark, has finished an invention as the outcome of which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Romance and Tragedy of Railway Making
The romance of railways is a thing which the poets are very properly trying to make the people perceive. The romance of lions and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Adventure in a Motor Car
In an interesting article in "Pearson's Magazine," Mr. B. Fletcher Robinson writes of the dangers and the delights of motor-racing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Resumption of Land for Road. Department of of Lands, Sydney. 11th May. 1904
SIR.--I am directed by the Minister for Lands to invite year attention to a notice in the Government Gazette, of 7th May, 1904, relating to the resumption of land and dedication thereof as a public road under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Ride in a Motor Car
General 'Theodore Brump, of Coronado Beach, California, who is a confirmed motorist, complains of the projudice against motor-cars exhibited by the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dirty Railway Carriage
A great many people have travelled in trains during the past fortnight and many mutt have noticed the duty state of the seats in not a few of the carriages,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mono Railway
It was intended to work the mono-rail line between Manchester and Liverpool by electricity at speeds as high as 110 mites an hour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roads and Bridges Members
THE following letter from Mr. G, S. Briner, M.P., appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph:--As in the opening speeches at the Local…
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