Railway Sleepers
A Narrabri telegram says :—Sleeper getters recently asked the Government for an increase of 2d each for round-baok sleepers, exclusive of royalty. In consequence of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
374 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 19
The Railway Bars and Local Option
In regard to the Railway Commissioners' proposal to establish a bar at the railway station for the sale of liquors, the East Orange Council has decided to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A Popular Railway Official
Mr. H. L. Boucher, late assistant stationmaster at Wodonga, was on Wednesday evening presented with a purse of sovereigns prior to his departure for Newmarket…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Original Correspondence. Clear Hills Savernake Railway League. To the Editor
SIR,--In your issue of the 6th, your Clear Hills correspondent makes a most unwarrantable attack upon our railway league. He speaks of it as "dead," etc…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Car
The motor-cars of today may be divided into three classes, according to the means used for their propulsion--oil, steam[?] and electrical. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Rates for Riverina Wool
A few months ago the people of Wodonga protested against the policy of the Victorian Railway Department in giving Albury preference over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Bridge
The new bridge to be erected over the River Murray at Koondrook will be a splendid structure. It will be built on the swing principle, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Romances of the Road. [All Right Reserved.] the Real Dick Turpin
Probably there never was a man more unlike the Dick Turpin of romance, the dashing highwayman in his fine laced coat and long boots, than the real malefactor of that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caught in Railway Points. a Distressing Accident
A young man named James Convey, wag admitted to the Kyneton Hospital (Vic.) on Tuesday morning suffering from the effects of a distressing accident. He is a shunter at the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Railway Across the Australian Continent
Mr. Oscar de Satge, writing to the Times from Elysee, Folkestone, discusses the advantages to be afforded by a through railway connection from Sydney northwards across…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Abolition of Railway Passes
The Queensland Minister of Railways informed a deputation which desired free passes for persons attending technical colleges that he had decided to abolish the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Victorian Railways Committee
Mr. At W. Craven, member for Benambra, has been appointed chairman of the Railways Standing Committee, in succession to Mr. Cameron Members of his…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Tumut Railway
A short time back (says the Cootamundra Herald) attention was drawn in the press to the delay in completing the Gundagai to Tumut railway. From a report which…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Longest Railway Journey in the World
Most people imagine that the five days run of the famous Western express from New York to Sun Francisco is the longest railway journey in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Dog That Saved a Train
It has long been a problem whether the palm should be awarded to the horse or dog as the first friend of man among the brutes, and without any desire to decide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Germanton Railway
Considerable dissatisfaction in expressed at what is held to be unnecessary. delay in the opening of the Germanton railway for traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Named for Heroine Large Viaduct in Iowa Called the Kate Shelley Bridge. Spot Where a Brave Girl Saved a Passenger Train, from Destruction. —An Immense Engineering Work
Four miles west of Boone, Ia., is nearing completion what is said to be the highest double track railroad bridge in the world, says the New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed Railway From Wagga to Humula. Visit of the Public Works Committee
The members of the Public Works Committee will, in connection with the inquiry into the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Wagga to Humula, leave Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Have a Press Gang. Novel Procedure for Getting Needed Harvest Hands in Nebraska. Farmers Seize Tramps from the Freight Trains anil Compel Them
Owing to the large crops the farmers in Nebraska and Kansas have to use all sorts of ingenious schemes to get harvest hands. Enterprise in this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Heroes
Patrick MeTamany was a switchman at one of the Pennsylvania Railroad crossings in Jersey City, where there is an intricate network of tracks over which…
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