Shooking Railway Fatality. a Guard Decapitated
Samuel Spacey, 45, a railway guard, was killed near the Nowtown Station (Sydney) at about 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was engaged in shunting…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
969 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 49
Cablegrams. Railway Accident in Canada Train Rolls Down an Embankment. Fifteen Persons Killed. London
A shocking accident occurred yesterday to the transcontinental train running between Chaplean and Ontario half-way between Ottawa and Fort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chapleau Disaster Railway Passengers Penned in Burning Cars. Numerous Deeds of Heroism. London
Most of the victims of the terrible Chapleau railway accident were English immigrants, who were travelling to Western Canada under the auspices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Border Railway Rates
It is anticipated by the Victorian Railway Department that by the reduction of what is known as the junction rate, between Albury and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wahgunyah Railway Station. Who is the Face at the Window
Guard Walsh, a very popular member of the Wahgunyah railway staff, has received notice of removal, but his now station was not known at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. Melbourne. Tuesday. Birth in a Railway Train"
Last Monday evening a woman gave birth tola child while, travelling in the Mildura train between Hattah and Ouyen. There was nobody on board…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lockhart to Clear Hills Railway. Further Evidence at Urana
On Thursday last, the Parliamentary Public Works Committee paid a second visit to Urana, says the "Independent," for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Larrikinism in Railway Trains
The disgraceful behavior of youthful larrikins on late suburban trains has for a long time past been a source of continued and bitter complaint…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wahgunyah Train Service
It would appear that the request made to the Victorian Railway Commissioner for a continuation of the present railway service to Wahgunyah,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metalling Roads with Gold
On Thursday last Mr. F. Gill, roadsman to the Shire of Rutherglen, was engaged in spreading metal on the Brown's Plains and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian Train Wrecks Result of Broken Rail. London, April 12
Owing to a broken rail in the track a transcontinental train on the Canadian-Pacific railway was wrecked yesterday at Chapleau, in Ontario, 615 miles west of…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Half-Holiday Sports Club. Reorganisation of Football Trams for the Season
A meeting of the above club to reorganize its forces for the coming football season was held at [?] Federal Hotel on wednesday evening. about forty enthusiasts in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Signalman. Dies in His Box. Discovered by Delay
The "Daily Mail," of February 4th, reports:—A signalman has been found dead—apparently after being seized with a fit—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tocumwal Railway
The Victorian Railway department is losing no time in carrying out the extension of the Tocumwal line to the New South Wales side…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Complaint Against the Railways
The "Cootamundra Herald" reports that the president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association (Mr. J. Perry, M.L.A., Liverpool Plains), at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →An Up-to-date Train Service
Down in New Mexico there is a small town. There, as in other places in the cow country, the coming in of the train is the event or the day. At…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light Railways in India
The experimental light railways which have been under trial in India for some time have acquitted themselves so well that several millions sterling are about to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways in Winner
In countries where the railroad reaches high altitudes great trouble is experienced in keeping the track free from snow. In a very special degree this is true of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkable Motor Car Invention
A novel French touring map, the road being travelled is shown upon a band of paper, which is mounted o the splashboard of the motor car, and by automatic unrolling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Differential, Railway Rates
it is not probable that the question of differential railway rates will be discussed at the Premiers' Conference in Brisbane. The Hobart Conference…
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