Train Held Up. Safes Exploded. San Francisco, September 2
Three robbers, one of whom was a negro, held up the Southern Pacific southbound express, 40 miles from the city of Redding, in California, last night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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Enginedriver Dies at Throttle. Train Runs on for Four Miles and Meets with Disaster. Erie (Pennsylvania)
A remarkable explanation has been found for the serious railway collision which occurred at the docks here on Monday. A passenger train collided with a freight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Motor Show and Gymkhana
The motor show and gymkhana, advertised elsewhere in this issue, promises to be both an attractive and a successful event. Run under the auspices of the…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Tapping the Upper Murray. Railway Extension Asked For. Germanton to Welaregang
At a mass meeting of the residents of the Upper Murray district when some 200 persons were present, a resolution was unanimously carried asking the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →The Railway Commission
At the sitting of the Railway Commission the locomotive men's witnesses declared that at a meeting of the whole of the locomotive men it was resolved not to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jerilderie Railway League
A meeting of the Jerilderie Railway League was held on Monday evening last in the Council Chambers. Mr. f. Brooks (Mayor) in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Novel Cable Suspension Bridge
A suspension bridge of curious novelty has lately been built over the Oder River Breslau, Germany It is a Highway suspension bridge of 415ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roads on Private Subdivisions. a Culcairn Shire Problem
"A very important matter," as the president (Cr. H. A. Paech) termed it, was the subject of a minute submitted by him at the meeting of the Culcairn Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Making in Culcairn Shire. Economy of New Machinery
In accordance with his predictions that the stone crusher would show far better results for the month of August, Mr. Geo. S. Milne, engineer of the Culcairn Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cold Weather Dam[?]es Railway Line
Thousands of railway travellers on the illawarra and Bankstown lines, who were travelling into the city yesterday morning, were seriously inconvenienced owing to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Port Arthur Railway. Value Placed at £8,500,000. St. Petersburg
Under the terms of the treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese war, Russia agreed to relinquish to Japan in return for a money payment, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Workers. Wages Before Dividends
A witness giving evidence before the Railway Commission on Friday, expressed the opinion that labor should be properly paid for before dividends were granted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swing Bridge Damaged
A steam [?] owned by the Pelaw Main Co. when going through the opened swing bridge at Gladesville early this morning trashed into the swing and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Road to Dark River. Melbourne
A grant of £1500 towards making a vehicular track from M'Mahon's Creek to the Dark River was asked to-day by Cr. Peter Sutherland, president of the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car on Fire
People in Puckle street, Moonee Ponds, about 8 o'clock last evening, had the unusual spectacle of a big blaze in the roadway. Mr. Arthur A. Leek, tea merchant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Collision. Several Persons Seriously Injured. Scarsdale
A railway collision occurred near here shortly after seven this morning, but, fortunately, was not attended by losS of life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Wrecked
Horace Widden, with several friends, was motoring near St. Mary's Blue Mountains, yesterday, when a collision occurred with another car. Widdon's car was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Dashes Into Crowd. Seven Persons Injured. London
An exciting incident occurred at a cycle meeting in Liverpool on Saturday. A motor cyclist Lad attained a speed of 50 miles an hour, when he lost control…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Boat Capsized. Seventeen Tourists Drowned. Rome
A sad drowning fatality occurred on Saturday on Lake Trasimeno, in Central Italy. A large motor boat with a party of…
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