Over an Embankment. Express Train Falls. Only One Death
While running at the rate of a mile a minute an Erie Railroad train carrying 150 passengers, including many New York professional and and,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
324 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 4 of 17
Future of the Aeroplane
Mr. Orville Wright has left America for France, where ho will confer with Mr. Wilbur Wright on various matters connected with the aeroplane…
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Dr. Rene Quinton, of France, has offered a prize of 10,000 francs for an Aeroplane that will float for five minutes in the air unpropelled and with its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Disaster. on the Midland Railway. Expresses in Collision. Wreckage Ablaze. 7 Killed, 20 Injured. Terrible Scenes
Not since the Bullhouse accident, near Penistone, in 1884, when 24 persons were killed and 60 injured by the breaking of a crank-axle of a fast…
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Messrs. Thos. Williams and Geo, Walters, representatives of Messrs, Rhys', Jones, Carter & Co., have arrived in Wingham, and are making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Shunter Killed
Early on Thursday morning William John Wilson, shunter employed in the Darling Harbor railway yards, was knocked down by a truck and run…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shocking Railway Accident. London
While the Boston express was travelling at the rate of 40 miles an hour it clashed through a street window into the station at Montreal. The train…
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THE Herald's Adelaide correspondent on Wednesday last wired that Messrs. White and Custance arrived at 5.36 o'clock, having occupied 20 hours 6…
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Would that we might go Eastward, you and I, And stand again on Pera Bridge to see the world go by. At Pera all the nations meet;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A French Aeroplane That Has Flexible Wings
M. Max des Mouceaux de Gyvray, a noted French inventor, has been conducting remarkable experiments at Cannes with an aeroplane which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Railway Contract
The successful tenderer for the third section of the North Coast Railway, from Taree to Gloucester, was Messrs. Rhys Jones and Carter. The price…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News by Wire. SYDNEY, Thursday. Railway Accident
A coal train consisting of 26 trucks broke away at Newcastle Dyke and crashed into the dead end. Thirteen trucks were derailed and smashed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rieviera Train Robberies. Clever Gang at Work. Travellers Lose Jewels
In conversation to-day with the Commissary of Police at the Care du Lyon here, concerning the theft of £1280 in cash and jewels of which…
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The contractors of the North Coast railway are making splendid progress with the work. The main work in the construction of the line as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Railway Work
During the past month a large number of tip dray teams, have been passing through Gloucester en route for Taree, to work on the third section…
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SATISFACTORY progress continues to be made with the first section of the North Coast Railway extending from Maitland to Dungog. The number of…
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AN Adelaide telegram in the Telegraph states that the Melbourne Steamship Company's s.s. Monaro took on board 71 draught horses, 50 drays, and other…
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THE "S.M. Herald" in a leader on the North Coast, refers to the visit of Mr. Deakin and Mr. Wade, and says: "There is only one way to remove the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sarah an Incident in the Train
As [?] 3.15 express to the north came : o Rugby Station, the girl in the corner seat drew up her window-blind listlessly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rieviera Train Robberies. Clever Gang at Work. Travellers Lose Jewels
In conversation to-day with the Commissary of Police at the Gare du Lyon here, concerning the theft of £1280 in cash and jewels of which…
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