A Motorist Monarch. Sued by a Widow
From Berlin on 6th January, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" While the King of Saxony and his suite were driving to a shooting party…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
969 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 49
The New Railway Commissioner
Mr. W. Johnson, who has been appointed Chief Commissioner for Railways in New South Wales, arrived at Fremantle by the R.M.S. Oroya. Mr. Johnson, on being…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Rest-houses for Railway Men
In order to meet the convenience and comfort of the running-staff, enginemen, and guards when away from home, the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners have…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Sensational Railway Mishap
A Wellington (N.Z.) telegram states:—Considerable excitement was caused at Lyttleton by the behaviour of the express from the south. Instead of pulling up…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Wonderful Escapes in Railway Accidents
When a heavy express, rushing along at nearly a mile a minute, leaves the rails, charges another train, or crashes through a bridge, the marvel is not that the death…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →A Novel Bridge
The Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company have recently completed a bridge of novel de-ign over the Mississippi. The bridge had be of such a height above low-water that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tocumwal Railway. Work of Construction
An early commencement will, in all probability, be made with the completion of the line from Strathmerton to Tocumwal. At present the railway stop at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Odds and Ends. in a Tramcar
A CLERGYMAN who has just returned from a tour narrates an amusing incident which occurred one day in a tramcar. ‘My complexion, as you know,’ he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Cables. Railway Robbers at Turin. Organisation of Railway Men. London
The police at Turin have discovered that there is in existence there an organisation of railway men whose, object is to rob passengers luggage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident
A fatal railway accident occurred near the Newtown Station, this morning, a guard named Samuel Spacey, aged 45, being decapitated by a train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Casualty
An inquest was held to-day into the railway fatality near the Newtown Station yesterday, in which a guard named Samuel Spacy was run over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Melbourne, Wednesday Railway Crossing Fa[?]
The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surround the [?]h of the little boy Hugh M[?]re, who was run down by a train at Clea [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensational Mishap to a Train
A despatch from Townsville gives a brief account of a rather sensational happening to a train running on the Ingham-Lucinda railway line. The telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Luxurious Train Wrecked. 73 Passengers Injured. New York, February 26
Another terrible railway wreck, the second within a week, occurred early yesterday morning. The "Pennsylvania Flyer," which is one of the two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rush to London. Tramps and Workless
Mr J. S. Fletcher's "By the Writers of Babylon," the pathetic story of a Yorkshire couple's calamitous migration to London to seek the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Race to Death. Motoring at Grenay
From Paris, the correspondent of the f London "Dally Telegraph" wrote on 10th January:-- Details are now to band concerning an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deadly Tram Rides. How Public Vehicles Cause Disease
If it were possible to tabulate statistics of the cases in which the cause of disease, and eventual death, may safely he attributed to riding. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Tramp Mourners
Tramps everywhere are wont to prize their boots above every other part of their wardrobe, says Josiah Flynt in "Tramping with Tramps." In St. Petersburg at…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →He Foreign Loans. Chinese Railway Policy. London, April 6
An announcement is made by Dr.Morrison, the Peking correspondent of "The Times," that the negotiations which have been proceeding for the flotation of an…
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