Railway Benefit Club. Annual Gathering
The annual reunion of the Newcastle and District Government Railway Traffic and Permanent Way Employees' Benefit Club took place at the Hamilton Station…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
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Tramway Collision. Ten Persons Killed. Twenty Severely Injured. London
A collision resulting in great loss of life, has occurred between two electric trams at Chesterton, Indiana, in the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Railway. Tenders for Second Section. Sydney
Tenders for the construction of the second section of the North Coast rail-way from Dungog to Gloncester, were opened at the department of Public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Motor Motive Power. Substitute for Petrol. Cheaper and Less Offensive. London
The Earl of [?]hrewsbury and others are developing as a substitute for petrol a new English product named "homil," which is made from waste…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening Up Africa. Cape to Cairo Railway. Work Approaching Completion London
The Cape to Cairo railway is advancing 10 miles weekly, and has reached 47 miles south of Khartoum. The distance between Capetown and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employees' Conference. Brisbane
A conference of delegates, representing the New South Wales, Victorian, and Queensland branches of the Federated Railway Traffic Transport Association of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West American Railways. Agency in New Zealand. London
The Western American Railways are about to open an agency in Sydney. Mr. Sproul, late of the Oceanic Steamship Company, and well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Railways
The interesting railway statistics of the United States of America, which are published every year, are again to hand, this time for the year 1908. As before,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Train Service
Sir,—I wish to draw attention to the grievance of Maitland residents who travel daily by the Brisbane mail train to Newcastle. For some time past it has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Brisbane Letter. Brisbane, June 26. Strike on the Boyne Railway
Once again the men engaged in the construction of State railways under the Government have demonstrated their inability to understand the necessity of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mosquito and Dempsey Island Bridge
Mr. Ferry, engineer of the Tarro Shire Council, reported at a meeting of the council yesterday that he had interviewed Mr. Callen in reference to the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hamilton Roads
SIR,—Hamilton Council is now drawing a larger revenue than ever from the ratepayers living in the South Ward, but It would be hard to find any permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Car Disaster. Two Men Killed. London
A motor car disaster is reported from Russia. While M. Vetchinin, a St. Petersburg millionaire, was testing a car in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dealing with Tramps
Scientific treatment of vagrancy is not to be expected in the immediate future, but a, good beginning has been made. It is now suggested (says "American Medicine")…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor Car Taxation. Some Exemptions. London
Mr. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has promised to reduce the tax on petrol for doctors' motor cars to 1½d per gallon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The State Railways
In giving evidence before the Public Works Committee on the proposal to construct a railway line from Parkes to Peak Hill, Mr. Harper, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Stations Robbed. Adelaide
Three railway stations between Adelaide and Port Adelaide were attacked by robbers yesterday morning. They successively visited Croydon, Kilkenny, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed on the Railway. Man Decapitated
At about six o'clock yesterday morning the body of a man, will the head severed, was found on the railway line at Wickham, between the crossing and high-level…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Passenger Airships. Shelters on the Railways. Increasing Popularity. London
A difficulty with regard to commercial aerial navigation has been the necessity for the erection of special balloon halls at various stations as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Tramway. Proposal for Extension. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney
Aldermen Cracknell, the Mayor of West Maitland, and Alderman Thursby, and Messrs. T. Goodyer, A. Thomas, J. T. Russell, W. M'Lauchiln, and J. Enright, were…
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