Attempt to Wreck Mail Train. Hobart
An attempt was made to wreck the Launcheston-Hobert mail train in a cutting by placing a stone weighing one hundredweight on the line. The…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
603 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 31
Railway Strike Ended. London
The railway strike at London has termin[?]…
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A public meeting convened by the Mayor, was held at Casino, on Tuesday night, to consider the appointment of delegates to represent the…
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Wanganui, Neve Zealand, boasts a well-equipped file brigade, end claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Bridge
She still site at bridge at midnight, As the clocks are striking the hour; No thought of her home or her family To move her have the power…
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WHAT is regarded by the police as a deliberate attempt to wreck the mail train from Launceston, Tasmania, took place shortly after 6 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rules of the Road for Airships
The Aero Club of France has prepared for the French Government a set of aviation rules of the road to be used as a basis for the formation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gilgai Road. (To the Editor TIMES)
Sir In your report of the last meeting of the Bannockburn Shire the following appears "From the Department of Works concerning letter from…
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Wanganui, New Zealand, boasts a well equipped fire brigade, and claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sensational Escape of the Morpeth Tram
A MURPETH correspondent writes to the Maitland "Mercury":—The other night we were sitting in our balcony discussing the prospects of a flood…
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Wanganui, New Zealand, boasts a well-equipped fire brigade, and claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon
Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed Bridge Over the Beardy River
On Wednesday Mr. W. Lee, district works officer, stationed at Armidale, paid Glen Innes a visit with respect to the proposal to construct a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leap from a Train. Young' Man's Death. SINGLETON
Mr. D. M'Dougall, district coroner, held an inquest this afternoon concerning the death of Joseph Milligan, which occurred in the Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Decentralisation. Tenterfield-casino Route. Sir Thomas Ewing's Views
THE Royal Commission on Railway Decentralisation sat in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, and took the supplementary evidence of Sir Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Richmond Railway Disaster. Melbourne
Several employees on the Victorian railways have been penatised on account of the Richmond railway [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collisions
A SLIGHT collision between two runaway engines (coupled together) and a train of empty carriages took place near the loco junction, Eveleigh, early…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Fatality
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Mr. Horatius M. Lyon, one of the best known citizens of Wellington, New Zealand, was killed while attempting to board a train leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor 'Bus Services
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. E, F. Boult, who has had experience of motor 'bus services in England, says that he sees many possibilities for the use of that vehicle in Sydney. "It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways and Settlement
CONSIDERABLY modified and varied from the hustings propositions, the recently announced land and railway policies of the new Government should…
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