INTERCOLONIAL. The Old Western Road
At the last meeting of the Historical Society in Sydney Mr. Frank Walker read an entertaining paper entitled "The Romance of the Western Road."…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
706 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 36
Victorian Railways
As announced in our last issue, holiday excursion tickets will be issued to and from all stations[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Last Wages Were Death a Melancholy Railway Tragedy. Death of a Father of Eight
A dreadful railway fatality occurred at Wedonga yesterday afternoon, which shocked even the railway men, who are used to "taking their lives in their hands."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Well Perfumed Motor-cars
The ultra-fashionable, wasteful woman of “society” is most particular just now about having a supply of flowers for her motor car. The idea…
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A woman, with a child in her arms, was only saved from frightful injury or death by the prompt action of the stationmaster at Ar[?]liffe yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transport of Troops by Motor
The highly successful experiment in motor [?] by which a battallonof cluards was transported from London to [?] distance of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Falls Off a Tramcar
Emily Barker, a girl of 11 years, residing with her [?] in Barkly-street, Ballarat East, was seriously injured last night through falling [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hours of Railway Empoyes. an Eleven-hour Day Fixed. London
E[?] acting as [?] between the Mulland Railway Company and its employes, who are agilating for higher wage, and [?] hours of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gatekeeper Out in Two. Railway Accident Epidemic. Geelong
A magisterial inquiry was held to-day into the circumstances of the death of John Boxall, a gate-keeper, who was killed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs in India. Another Train Aimed At. Four Natives Injured. London
Another bomb outrage has been perpetrated in India. Yesterday a dynamite bomb was thrown at a railway train while it was travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Geelong Railway Tragedy Two Men Committed for Trial Geelong
Mr. W. H. Brown, J.P. who held a [?] inquiry yesterday into the circumstances of the death of John Boxcll, who was run down by an engine at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Constructing Chinese Railways. Foreign Financiers Differ. London
Details of the differences between British and German financiers in relation to the construction of the Canton Hankow railway show that a period of acute tension was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bogs That Co On Tramp
For a full-fiedged bog to go on tramp, as it were, wandering up and down the country, is unforunately no uncommon experience of the inhabitants of certain districts in…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Railway Men's Day Lord Cromer Fixes Ii Hours. London April 3
The Earl of Cromer, who has been arbitrating in a dispute between the Midland Railway Company and its employees on the question of hours and wages, has given…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →English Railways Big Amalgamation Scheme
The projected amalgamation of the Great Northern and Great Central Railway Companies whose systems overlap to an extraordinary degree, was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Railways Proposed German Loan. London. April 5
An announcement was made a few weeks ago by Dr. Morrison, Paking correspondent of terms of an agreement made in 1905 with…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →World's Flying Recohd. Over Sixty-one Miles by Aeroplane. Wilber Wright's Remark Able Performance
"The Flying Man," the name by which Mr. Wilbur Wright has come to be known has just accomplished a last which completely [?]elipses all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway at 12,000 Feet. an English Tender Accepted. London
Further details are now available re[?]rding the contract for constructing the railway from the port of Arica in Pe[?] acres the Auden to [?] Paz, in Bolivia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Smash at Melbourne. Collision Between Two Engines. Two Drivers and Two Firemen Injured. Melbourne
An accident of a sensational character happened shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday at the Spencer-street station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunshine Railway Disaster Milburn and Kendal Both to Blame. Other Complaints Dismissed. Melbourne
The Departmental Board of Inquiry gave its decision in the Sunshine case yesterday afternoon. The Board of Inquiry was constituted of Messrs. L…
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