Underground Electric Trams
A mammoth scheme is now being carried out in Greater New York. The scheme is to cost £7,000,000, and the work…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
309 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 16
Attempted Train Wrecking. a Wonderful Escape
Detective Armstrong returned to Ballarat on Saturday after completing his inquiries in reference to the recent attempt to wreck the 6.25 p.m. passenger train from Mary borough…
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A shacking railway accident, which resulted in tho death of two boys, cocurred shortly before 6 p.m. on Sunday on the line near Hurstville station. John Henty…
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In the Legislative Assembly on the 19th inst., with reference to the motion of the Minister for Works in favour of submitting to the Public Works Committee the question…
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Some years ago (says the Free Press) the project of a railway from Coonong S[?]ding, through Urana, to Corowa, received considerable support in public opinion. Like a…
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A shocking railway fatality happened at Hurstvllie on Sunday afternoon, two little boys being cut to pieces. Their names were John Henry Sparkes, aged five years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Original Correspondence. Discourtesy in the Railways. To the Editor
SIR,--This afternoon I was a passenger by the 2.55 train from Wahgunyah to Rutherglen. These was a goodly number of people on the Wahgunyah…
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At Quirindi on Wednesday afternoon, while the goods train from the north was ascending Black Hill, under charge of Driver Solomon Reuben…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Railway Accident. Two Trains in Collision. Eighty Passengers Killed. London. November 28
A terrible railway accident has occurred in the United States. A westward-bound immigrant train came into collision with an eastward-bound passenger train at Seneca…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Mildura Railway
The engineer in chief (says the Argus) returned to Melbourne on Saturday after an absence of a little over a week. Mr. Rennick visited Mildura…
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In the Victorian Legislative Assembly, on Wednesday Mr Trenwith, in moving that the question of connecting Tocumwal by means of a railway with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Railway Fatality. Two Boys Killed Near Bendigo
A shocking accident occurred on Saturday night on the railway line, about a quartet of a mile south of the Golden Square railway station, Bendigo. whereby two lads named…
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The railway authorities anticipate a busy time in dealing with the approaching wheat harvest. Reports of the country state that harvesting operations have already started in…
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A recent visitor to Sydney from America, Me Frank Ilse, representing the firm of Swilt and Co., packers and exporters of beef, &c., one of the largest of the kind in the States…
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A terrible railway accident has occurred in British Columbia, on the Canadian-Pacific Railway, which crosses Canada from Winnipeg to Vancouver. The railway at…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Intercolonial Items. the Wilgannia Railway
The Hon. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister for Public Works, introduced in the Legislative Assembly a bill to sanction the construction of a railway from Cobar to Wilcannia. It also…
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[?] was having hard time of it, and when the fact occurred to him, as it did many times a day, ho grew sentimental and self-pitiful…
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Tenders were opened on Friday for various works, the lowest tenderer and particulars being as follows :— No. 19, Germanton to Cookardinia road…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →A Train on Fire. a Startling Occurrence
A fire occurred on Saturday evening in the luggage and mail van of the Broken Hill to Adelaide express, which resulted in the par* tial destruction of the mail and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →The State Railways
In a letter sent by tho general secretary of the Australian Natives' Association to the Secretary for Railways the following passage occurs:—"The board are of opinion that the…
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