Victorian Railways. MELBOURNE
A REDUCTION is being made in the staff of the railway works at Newport (Vic.). A number of the employees have been asked to take an extended leave or accept…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
390 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 20
Special Train to Moree
Visitors from Moree will be pleased to learn that a special train is to leave Inverell for Moree and intermediate stations at mid-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General News. Road Race
OWING to the inclemeney of the weather on Wednesday afternoon, the youths' three mile race was postponed until next Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident. GOSFORD, Thursday Night
A COLLISION took place at Gosford to-day between a goods train and a stock train for Flemington while the former was shunting. No person was injured, but several waggons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Destroyed. LONDON
THE STANDARD'S correspondent at Seoul says that 70 miles of railway and some important bridges between Harbin and Vladivostok have been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Suspension Bridge
The Municipal Council has been advised through Mr. Jones, M.P., that the Minister has approved of 12 new punt cables being supplied…
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LAST week a goods train was derailed near Warialda. The recent rain is assigned as the cause of the accident and as there bad not been a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Military Railway. LONDON
IN accordance with the stipulations of her alliance with Korea, Japan proposes to build a railway for military purposes from Seoul to Wiju…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
AN accident occurred on the railway line near Woy Woy tunnel this morning. Two men named Michael Prendergast and Alfred Gardiner were riding on a tricycle in…
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A shocking tram fatality occurred in Oxford street, Sydney near the Cambridge Club Hotel. on Saturday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Time Table
The mail train for Sydney leaves Tenterfield at 6.40 p.m. daily, Saturdays excepted, and for Brisbane a 10.30 a.m. taily, Sundays excepted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Robbery
We mentioned last issue that a female passenger by train had been robbed at Wallangarra. The SUNDAY TIMES says:--A case of distress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Conversion of Steamers into Cruisers
The British mail steamers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, have been ordered to prepare for conversion into cruisers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murwillumbah-tweed Heads Railway
The expediency of constructing a railway from Murwillumbal to Tweed Heads was further consideral by the Public Works Committee yesterday who by four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Railway Rejected. SYDNEY
THE Public Works Committee, by a majority of one, rejected the proposal to construct a railway from Murwillumbah to Tweed Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Bridge of Coffins
When the British "forces were marching to Pekin in 1860, after the capture of the Taku forts, one of the rivers became so swollen with the heavy rains that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Prisoner Escapes. Jumps From a Moving Tram
On Tuesday evening a prisoner named Laurence John Evans, while being taken to Darlinghurst Gaol in a tram, escaped from custody. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traveller. Luxury on the Railway Lines
THE unaccustomed voyager is always somewhat puzzled when he finds that the means of the sumptuous meals served on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Roads. (To the Editor of the Inverell TIMES)
Sir,--I think Mr. G. A. Jones, M.L.A., is to be congratulated on having caused the Department to inquire into the condition of the roads of the district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident. a Girl's Foot Severed
In attempting to board a moving tram at Ashfield railway station, a domestic servant named Elsie Bucton fell between the platform and…
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