A Train Derailed
An accident resulting in the derallment of the East Greta No. 8 locomotive and four D trucks being deralled, occurred in the West Maitland railway yard on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1906
451 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 23
A Tramways Purchase
The Price Government are contemplating several big administrative Acts during recess, and the first has been forced on them. For years Adelaide has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecking a Train. London
Being incensed at the refusal of troops from Manchuria, who are returning to Russia to revolt, the rebels at Vilelsk adopted a murderous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Red Sea Railway
The fourteenth of October will ever be remembered in the Soudan as the opening of a new era (says the "Soudan Times"). The desert, which in former days was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strife in Poland. Shooting Train-drivers. London
The revolutionaries in Warsaw are shooting the drivers of Polish trains. Three bridges have been blown up, and the insurgents have destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anarchy in Siberia. Railway Stations Pillaged. London
Anarchy prevails all along the Siberian railway, and all stations have been pillaged. Military trains follow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sudden Death in a Tram
Shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning, while the inward tram from Wallsend was passing through Broadmeadow, an old woman, named Catherine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Differential Railway Rates. Reply to the Commissioners
At the meeting of the council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce on Friday last a letter was road from Mr. Corkhill, acting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moree to Mungindi Railway. Sydney
A deputation waited on Mr. Leo, the Minister for Works, to-day, to urge that the matter of the construction of a railway from Moree to Mungindi be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thornton Railway Fatality. Inquest Resumed
The inquest on the engine-driver, James Pead, who died as the result of scalds received on an engine on the 4th December, near Thornton, was resumed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Boiler Explosion
The State Premier, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, is deserving of commendation for the action he has taken in appointing a special expert to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Railway Strike. Revolution Active. London
The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the London "Daily Mail" states that a strike has taken place on eleven provincial railways…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Macadam of the Roads
On September 21, in 1756, was born John London MacAdam, whose name has for nearly a century been associated with the process of road-making, which he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Returns
The railway returns of the passenger traffic during the Christmas holidays have been issued. The returns for 1905-6 show a general increase in the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Omnibuses. Sydney
The Railway Commissioners state that the motor omnibuses which at present are running on trial in Sydney are not giving very great satisfaction, the experience…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend. Brookstown Bridge
The work of constructing the approach to the Brookstown bridge on the Sandgate side will be commenced next week, the line of route having now been pegged out by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-farming Gains Ground
Farming is rapidly entering upon a new era it has in fact entered it, The motor-plough; harrow-cultivator, etc., are an existing fact, and a motor farm-waggon has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carrington Tramway
The member of the deputation from the Carrington Council were the Mayor, Alderman Doran, and Aldermen M'Cann, Garrett, Light, and M'Gregor. A stop was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder in Geneva. in a Train Tunnel. London
A murder has been committed in a train in Geneva, in Switzerland, the object of the perpetrators being robbery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. a Little Constitutional Point.—something More of the Telephone.—critics in the Tram.—does Poetry Pay?—no!—the Yellow Flag in Man-'o-war Bay.—the Waverley Council and Surf Swimming. Sydney
There will be a good deal of discussion, perhaps, over Lord Northcote's refusal to transmit a petition to England in antagonism to a resolution which he sent…
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