The Fastest Train
ENGLAND does not, as is popularly supposed, run the fastest train in the world. True, that the London and North Western Railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1892
113 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 6
The Editor's Column. (Whilegiring insertion to Correspondents letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) The Kookabookra Road
SIR,--Report says that we are to have a new road to Kookabookra from Glen Innes. This proposed road is to leave the old road about four or five mile's from the township of Kookabookra,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WALCHA & District. Walcha, Monday. Railway to Walcha
IT is now about two months since Mr. Jones was here inspecting the proposed route of the branch railway to the town of Walcha, and no doubt his report has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Rates for Produce
THE Railway Commissioners are arranging for the low rates on the carriage of grain, flour, and other produce, which at present apply on the up journey to Sydney or Newcastle for nine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Long Trailing Skirts. the Train Absurdity
IT is a most extraordinary thing that the platform ladies and their friends who go in for female suffrage have never a word to say…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Tramcar Driven by Ammonia
AMMONIA, as a motive power is certainly a novelty; but this, though strange, is true; and the invention, as a matter of course, hails from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What Railway Accidents Cost
IT was a bad day for railway companies when Lord Campbell's "Act for compensating the Families of persons Hilled by Accidents" was passed. Just imagine,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bridge's Career
THE statement that Bridge, who burned down the Burketown courthouse and lockup and so escaped from custody a few days ago, had been before a jury 22 times, is probably an exaggeration. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident on the Moonbi. [By Telegraph.] a Sensational Fourteen Minutes. Uralla
ON Saturday night as the goods train to Arinidale was ascending the Monbi ranges in the deep cutting near M'Donald Roiver the -engine ran into a slip that had occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glen Innes-Inverell Railway
PURSUANT to advertisement, a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Inverell, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of appointing delegates to proceed to Sydney to urge the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grafton-Lismore Railway
THE S. M. Herald, in an article arising out of the resolution passed by the Public Works Committee in relation to the Grafton-Lismore railway, remarks--"From the report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enormous Land Slip. the Railway Line Blocked
THE late heavy rains, which have fallen during the last month, hare been attended with various injuries to the railway line, and the section of the permanent way…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Peculiar Railway Accident
AT Wilkesbarre (Pennsylvania) an extraordinary railway accident, the result of a boyish freak, and forming part of one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Sixsmith. the First Train Out of Sydney
ALL railway men are familiar with the name of William Sixsmith, the ma n who drove the first train out of Redfern. Although Mr. Sixsmith is not often seen now,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Animal Tramp
Mark Twain made the coyote famous--or notorious, if you please. In Roughing it the poor animal is described as the sneak thief cf the plains, a tramp of the desert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Reductions
IT is a most regrettable circumstance that the scheme of retrenchment which has been forced on the Railway Commissioners, should, have the effect of reducing the earnings of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Railways
A SYDNEY correspondent writes A return just laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly gives, the stupendous total of four millions, one hundred thousand pounds as the amount expended…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Pic-nic at Guyra
ON Saturday last the annual pic-nic of the railway employees' on the Moonbi to Jennings section was held at Guyra, and proved to be one of the most successful gatherings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glen Innes Inverell Railway
ON Thursday the Public Works Committee proceeded with the consideration of the proposed railway from Glen Innes to Inverell Mr. J. Barling, Under Secretary for Public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Bridge
What is the cost of London's toilette? No statistician has yet attempted to estimate it, and, indeed, the whole subject has been neglected…
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