Attempted Train-wreckage
Stones were wilfully jammed in the railway switch at Jindaloo, between Cootmundra and Wallandbeen, on Friady last. There is no club to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
547 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 28
Railway Fatality
William Pickering, a railway guard, was run down and killed by a pilot engine at Euchaca, yesterday, the body being frightfully matilated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Disasters. (To the Editor of the CHRONICLE)
Sir,—No other subject than the above fills the minds of the community at the present time. Our people are rejoicing at the marvellous…
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Twnety-eight pilgrims have been killed by a railway collision in Mexico…
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Sines the Murrurundi calamity and the Braybrook holocaust, several minor mishaps on the railways of both this and the adjoining State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Road to the Coast. (To the Editor, Guyra Argus)
Sir, It has occurred to me that the Guyra people are not taking the interest they ought to over the communication to the Coast. I notice that…
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The chance of being killed while travelling by train 13 only one in twenty-one million journeys—a very small chance indeed, when compared…
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AN influential deputation, representing the Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. and the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Stuck Up
Masked robbers held up a train hear Pittaburg American and stele £10,000 that was being conveyed to the hanks at St. Louis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bicycle Road Race
ON Saturday afternoon five-mile read race was run off for a sweepstake the following being the competitors:—J. Doyle scr. W. Flett scr. J. H. Grace 35sec. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Year in a Train
FROM Salzburg (writes the Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph") comes a story of mi extraordinary bet made by a commercial traveller,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kyogle-Acacia Creek Railway Extension. Visit of Railway Commission
THE long looked visit of the N.S. Wales Parliamentary Railway Commission to Acacia Creek and district took place on Wednesday and Thursday last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Railway Mishap. SYDNEY, Monday 3 p.m
ANOTHER derailment occurred at Redfern this morning. The engine of the Illawarra train crashed into the brick wall near the tunnel, blocking the line for a…
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THE frequency with which accident occur suggests that the management of our railways must be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Muster
The muster of motor cars at the Melbourne Carnival on Saturday was the largest ever brought together in Australia The value of the cars is estimated at fully…
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THE editor of the "Newsletter" (Sydney) expresses himself in the following trenchant manner in respect to the mismanagement of our railways:—The scene at Sydney station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Humours of Motoring
THE motor car has provided the humourous artist with a new outlet for his humour. In the February Pearson's Magazine is a collection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Carnival. Melbourne
THE muster of motor cars at the Melbourne carnival, on Saturday, was the largest ever brought together in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Railway Mishap. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
ANOTHER railway derailment occurred this morning. An engine and tender jumped the points near Redfern tunnel, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensational Railway Episodes in America. London, Sunday Night
MASKED robbers held up a train near Pittsburg, America, and stole £16,000, which was being conveyed to banks at St. Louis…
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