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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

490 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 25

Railway Revenue

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 April 1905 · page 5

The quarterly returns of the Railway Department for the quarter ending March 31st, show an increase in the earnings of £7557, while the…

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The New Target. an English Railway Scene

The Inverell Times · Thursday 20 April 1905 · page 3

The clerks arrived crimson of tarn from extreme hurry entering the timekeepers box they dashed off a signature giving in the book an hour something…

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Country Shows. And the Railway Commissioners. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

A DEPUTATION representing Country Agricultural Societies waited on the Railway Commissioners to-day requesting that the reduced rates and fares in…

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Incandescent Railway Lighting

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 7

THE new system of railway lighting which is being tested on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway [?], is an incande[?] oil-gas…

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Railway Fares. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from the country agricultural societies waited on the Railway Commissioners asking that the reduction of the fares and rates in connection with shows…

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Land Railways

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

SPEAKING at the Agricultural Society's banquet at Casino the Minister for Works said if the people wanted land they must have it. At the same time, it must not be imagined that all large…

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Pat and the Motor

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

An automobile experience that is said to have befallen Miss Helen Gould was related in an after-dinner speech recently by Cresswell MacLaughlin, editor of the…

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District News. Walcha Road

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 2

Since my last report cricket has been the rage. On Saturday, the 8th inst., the Roadites met. Rocky Gully on the local wicket, and defeated them…

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Country Shows and Reduced railway Rates

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 5

A deputation representing country agricultural societies waitd on the Railwlay Commissioners to-day requestin that the reduced fares and rates…

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John Bridge & Co's Ltd. Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1905 · page 4

Fur Skins-- Business under this heading may be said to have commenced in earnest this week, when 49,925 opossum skins were submitted…

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Train to Mukden. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 5

THE first Japanese train has reached Mukden. It crossed the Hun river on a temporary bridge…

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Tram Fatality. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 5

JOSEPH BARLOW, 84, who had resided at the old pensioners' home in Bathurst, was on a visit to Sydney this week with a friend who lost sight of him last night, and reported…

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The March of the Motor Car

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 4

THE North Coast Co's General Manager, Mr. R. A. Bell, accompanied by Messrs. Shute and Alit, arrived in Grafton on Sunday evening, by motor car. Mr. Bell is on an extended business tour of…

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The Latest in Motor-car Engines. '

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 7

A moter-car, called the Adams-Farwell which has been constructed in America' has for its novel feature a remarkable 520 h p, horizontal' three-cylinder air cooled…

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War of the Ways. Motor-cars for Tramway Lines. Action by the London Country Council

The Inverell Times · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

The stirring of the municipal conscience on the subject of extravagant, tramway systems in view of the advent of the more approved and less costly…

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Railway Tickets that Tell Tales

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

All railway tickets that have been collected from the public are forwarded at once to the audit office of the company, where they are passed into the…

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Cycling and Motoring

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

The American cracks, Ivor Lawson and Floyd M'Farland, are leaving Australia for San Francisco by the "Sanoma" on May 8th. Lawson's…

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The New Target. an English Railway Scene

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

The clerks arrived crimson of face from extreme hurry: entering the timekeeper's box they dashed off a signature giving in the book an hour something…

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Road Tender

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

TENDERS for a number of road works were opened at the Inverell Road Office on Wednesday last. For contract No. 51, Inverell to Glen Innes, the lowest tender was that of…

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North Coast Railway. LISMORE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 5

SPEAKING at Lismore on Saturday, Mr. Carrot hers said he was strongly in favour of the North Coast railway in preference to the extension from…

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