Watering the Tram Lines. Remedy for the Dust Nuisance
The next deputation was one thoroughly representative of the whole district, the object being to secure the watering of the tram lines to allay the clouds…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
455 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 23
New Kind of Light Railway
A new kind of light railway has recently been treated by Prince Khillkoff, the well-known Russian Minister for Railways. The scheme consists of ordinary railway…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Asiatic Railways
LONDON, Saturday.—Reuter correspondent says that the Sultan of Turkey has approved of the railway line to Bagdad, in Asiatic Turkey, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carrington Tramway
The following communication from the Works Department has been handed to the Mayor by Mr. J. L. Fegan, M.P.:—"With reference to your personal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Construction
Notwithstanding that our finances are not in too flourishing a state, they are not an low as to prevent the Government proceeding with the construction of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident. Sydney
A shocking railway accident occurred at Mittagong last night, whereby the night railway gatekeeper, Edward Harold Nichols, aged 19, was run over by a mixed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Versus 'Bus
A Sydney 'bus proprietor has entered into competition with our Tramway Company with regard to one of the Northern suburbs. The fare originally was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electricity on Railways
Mr. W. Langdon, as the new President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in his inaugural address dwelt on the uses of electricity for railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrabri-walgett Railway. Sydney
Certain statements having been made to the effect that the work of constructing the Narrabri-Walgett-Collerandabri railway was not being pushed ahead as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Why Tramps Tramp
A University professor, during his summer holiday, has been travelling about England asking every tramp that he met why he didn't work. He interviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Mishap. Sydney
Considerable excitement was caused at Coolamon on Saturday evening, when it became known that a goods train from Narrandera had run off the line between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Council Merewether Beach Tramway. Stockton Steam Punt
At last night's meeting of the Newcastle Borough Council the Mayor (Alderman W. J. Ellis) presided, and there were also present: Aldermen Kidd,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hamilton. Tramway Company Entertainment
The Newcastle Tramway Musical and Dramatic Company, assisted by several other amateurs from the city, gave an excellent entertainment last night at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Trans-siberian Railway
When the Trans-Siberian Railway was laid, at the rate of a mile a day, all the world wondered. But this Trans-Manchurian branch has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Construction
The work on several railway lines passed it couple of sessions ago is proceeding apace: On the line towards the New South Wales border about 350…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Automatic Railways
The high speed traction experiments which have lately been carried on in Germany, and in which alternating-current transmission and polyphase…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Fatality. Sydney
A terrible railway fatality occurred on the Illawarra line at an early hour this morning to George Sackville Ridley, aged 34 years, a resident of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend. Road Matters
A communication has been received through Mr. Estell, M.P., intimating that the Minister for Works will be pleased to meet a deputation at his office this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend-cardiff Road. Sydney
This afternoon, Mr. Estell, M.P., introduced to Mr. O'Sullivan, the Minister for work, a deputation comprising Alderman T. R. Davis (Mayor of Wallsend), and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway and Tramway Association
The monthly general meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Railway and Tramway Association was held at Fry's Hall Newcastle West, about 100 members…
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