Railway Disasters. in England and America. London
The Chicago express train came into collision with a freight train on the Baltimore, Ohio, railway, owing to the mistake of a pointsman…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
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Fatal Railway Accident. Sydney
Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning a boy named Alfred Wallace Arnold, aged 16, who lived in Railway-parade, Kogarah, caught a train at the Kogarah…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—During a motor race at New York one of the competitors, while travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour lost control of his…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—During a fog the Orient express collided with the Nancy express at Bar-le-Duc, in France…
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The Otavi railway, in German South-west Africa, has, says "Engineering," the distinction of being the longest, narrow-gauge light railway in the world…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Seventy thousand employees on the Austrian railways have commenced a passive resistance strike, to secure increased…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—An electric tramcar in Birmingham was overturned through the failure of the brakes to act while on an incline…
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A serious accident occurred this morning near Moranding station, on the Kilmore-Heathcote line, when a goods train of twenty trucks ran off the line, and the…
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A deputation from the Cardiff Progress Association waited upon the Lake Macquarie Shire Council at Cardiff on Saturday afternoon to urge upon the council…
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Russian railway robbers made an attack on an express train near Kieff yesterday. The gang, which was composed of…
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The development of the mercantile marine and of the railway system of Japan have been two of the most important factors in the rapid industrial and…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that a crisis has occurred in the French motor-car industry in…
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LONDON, Saturday.—All the British railway companies have decided to consider a letter from Mr. Richard Bell, M.P., secretary of the…
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At a meeting of the Midland merchants and traders on Saturday resolutions were passed urging, as an effective remedy in the railway crisis,…
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In England the people seem to be for ever on the eve of some great catastrophe. Either it is, says "Engineering," the army that has fallen to pieces, or…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The railway signalmen at Glasgow have refused to strike…
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Speaking at Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Mr. G. A. Cox, one of the Senators for Ontario, and a director of the Grand Trunk and Canadian…
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Armed passengers travelling in a train between Dorpat and Walk, in Russia, tried to rob a banker who was carrying a large sum of money…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants at Middlesborough have unanimously supported the…
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Mr. Tait's report on electric railways, which has cost Victoria so much, can hardly be described as an exhaustive or satisfying document. It purports to give…
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