Railway Fatality
LONDON, Friday.—A Canadian intercolonial train has been wrecked near Halifax. The carriages, separating from the locomotive, fell down an…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
412 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 21
Railway Robbery
LONDON, Saturday.—The trial has concluded of the four Englishmen, Wilson, Mahon, Smith, and Howard, who were charged with being…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Russia is laying a railway across the ice on Lake Bulkal. This Siberian lake, which is on the…
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LONDON, Saturday.—A contract has been let for the extension of the Cape to Cairo railway to Broken Hill mine, a distance of 350 miles beyond Victoria…
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LONDON, Monday.—It is reported from Shanghai that a detachment of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Adelaide Letter. Adelaide, Feb, 5. the Tramways
The Jenkins Government has been afforded an opportunity of causing its name to be remembered by posterity with gratitude, and Mr. Jenkins, who has been…
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A deputation representing the Tramway Employees' Union, waited on Sir John See, the Premier, this afternoon, to urge that the Railway Commissioners should…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Intelligence has been received that the Japanese have destroyed one of the bridges on the Munchuria, railway, which…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Six members of an international gang of robbers boarded the express train from Brussels to Paris, and robbed a postal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Russo-japanese War. Two More Russian Cruisers Sunk. Capture of Russian Transports. Manchu[?]an Railway Bridge Blown Up. the Seat of War
Further Japanese successes. Russian losses at Port Arthur. Two Russian cruisers sunk off Korea. Russia transports captures. Japanese blow up a Manchurian railway bridge. Port Arthur troops becoming mutinous. Consternation in Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. Our Chance of Far Eastern Trade Owing to the War.—sir John See and the Tram-men.—a Challenge to Debate the Pros and Cons of King Alcohol.—where Some Money Might Have Been Made That Wasn't.—the Magistrates, the "Vagrants," and the "Other State."—a Clever Man's Great Ill-luck. Sydney
There is a good deal of discussion down here as to the prospects of the war improving the demand for Australian exports. So far as it relates to gaining trade…
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The other Federal matter noteworthy at the luncheon was that portion of Sir John Forrest's speech in which he alluded to the construction, or rather the…
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When the trains began to drive the coaches off the roads stage-coach names, customs, and traditions persisted. The now guard retained the old name…
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One of the questions that is looming in the near future is the conversion of the whole of the railways of the United Kingdom from steam to electric compulsion…
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The approaches to Carrington Bridge, both on Carrington and Newcastle sides, are in a bad state of repair, and in one or two places the holes are dangerous. The…
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The four miles of road from the Belmont post office to Swansea, formed several years ago, has worn well considering that there was but a five-inch layer of gravel…
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If the announcement made by the Treasurer of New South Wales at the recent conference in Melbourne regarding the Western Australian…
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A communication has been received by the council from Mr. F. M. Bakor, Super-intendent of roads, to the effect that tenders have been invited for the supply of…
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The annual conference of the Railway and Tramway Service Association was concluded at the Trades Hall this afternoon, when several of the association's…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—There is terrible confusion along the Siberian railway, and vast accumulations of munitions and provisions at the chief…
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