Horse Teams V. Railways. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
Two horse teams left Goondiwindi, to-day, for Brisbane, a distance of 270 miles, as an experiment in opposition to the railway rates…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1895
185 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 10
Run Over by a Train. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
[?] was killed at Strathfield Railway Station yesterday. Just when he had finished collecting tickets he slipped and fell across the…
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IN regard to the efforts our member (Mr. F. A. Wright) is making to induce the Minister to sanction an improved survey of a certain portion of the railway route between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Goods Tariff. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE Railway Commissioners hare revised the goods classification, and in the rate of carnage of merchandise carried on the New South Wales lines reductions of a material…
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[?] has long had a standing against the Railway Com[?] Finding vain all attempts [?]tain a satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Poet on the Tramp
WILLIAM Alexander and Walter Fisher were accustomed to borrowing a barrel organ from a Tottenham. Eng., greengrocer. One day he declined to give it; therefore…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Railway Rates. Further Particulars. Important Reductions
IN our issue of Wednesday we were able to inform our readers that New England was to be relieved on the 1st of March of the major portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide. Killed by a Train
Mr. Burton, a well-known local school-master, was killed on the railway, at Gawler, on Saturday. His companion, G. Warren, being seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Fatality. [By Telegraph.] South Australia
MR. Burton, a well-known local schoolmaster, was killed on the railway at Gawler on Saturday, his companion, G. Warner, being seriously injured…
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WE have received the following communication from our member, a copy of which he has addressed to the Minister for Works, Mr. J. H. Young :-- "Sydney, 19th February, 1895. Sir,--As the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Logic
A strong opposition is being worked up in the New South Walrs Assembly against the reappointment of Railwny Commissioner Eddy at a salary of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Local Government and Railways. Local Government
When the Government appointed a District Court Judge and other high officials to carve the country up into suitable portions for shires end…
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A train has been thrown over an embankment, and nine porsoni billed, at Jubbulpore, India, a rail baring been purposely displaced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Waggish Tramp and the Innocent Cop
HE was a tramp, and he was sitting in the pack, but his attire was not quite so disreputable as to warrant the policeman in driving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How the Queen Travels by Railway
THE importance of the Queen's life to the nation renders it necessary that every precaution should be takwi to avert any possibility of a collision when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Robbers. [By Cable.] London
An attempt has been made to bail-up a train at Greenwood in Kentucky, America. The men on the train opened fire on the robbers, which the latter returned, two of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegraphic News. [Through Our Special Agents.] Narrabri to Moree Railway. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
IN the Legislative Council the Narrabri to Moree Railway Bill passed the second reading, and went through committee after a clause being added preventing the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduction in Tram Fares
The Railway Commissioners have decided to reduce the tram fares on the railway trams from twopence to three halfpence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unprofitable Railways
THE Public Works Committee was ushered into existence amid a flourish of trumpets as the institution to save the country from the construction of unprofitable and log-rolling railways. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane.. Reduction in Railway Freight
The Queensland Railway Commissioners intend to reduce by one half the freight on wheat and maize carried on lines for export beyond the colony…
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