Who's Who and Why ? LONDON, April 12. a Railway Magnate
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, K.C.V.O., who is again visiting London, is President of the greatest railway in the world, the Canadian-Pacific. He has been connected…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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Aviation Fatality. French Minister Killed. by a Falling Aeroplane. Paris
Twenty aviators started in a race from Paris to Madrid, which commenced to-day. Nine military officers also started,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motors As Auxiliary
Often the suggestion has been made that by the adoption of heavy oil engines many of the large four-masted sailing ships now trading around the world…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Fatality. Mr. Arthur Bearby Killed
Mr. Arthur Bearby, of Mary-street, Smedmore, met his death in a shockingly sadden manner, at about a quarter past seven o'clock on Saturday night…
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The engineer reported at a meeting of the Tarro Council yesterday that he had prepared a plan of the portion of the road Buchanan to Buttai, between Warren's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aeroplane Disaster. Condition of M. Monis. Only One Serious Feature. Paris
M. Monis, the French Premier, who was struck by the aeroplane in the [?] on Saturday, is suffering from complicated fractures of the legs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Convicts. Escape From a Train. St. Petersburg
Twenty-nine convicts, proceeding by train from Perm to Siberia, attacked the warders and endeavoured to escape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway Fatality. Mr. A. A. Bearby's Death
Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of Mr. Arthur Alfred Bearby, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Railways. Loan of Ten Millions. Pekin
Representatives of British, French, German, and American banks have signed a contract with the Chinese Government for a loan of £10,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Tramways. Loss on Workmen's Fares. London
Twelve millions sterling has been spent upon the London tramways. A loss of £70,000 per annum is reported on all-night cars and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electric Railways. the Boston Project
The question of the electrification of all steam railroads entering the city of Boston has been the subject of consideration by a joint board of sixteen…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →State Railways. Commission's Report. Newcastle Unsuitable. Port Stephens Preferred. Sydney
The report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the question of decentralisation in railway transit was made available this evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Speers' Point Tramway. Progress of the Work
The construction of the tramway from Miller's Wharf, Young Wallsend, to Speers' Point is well forward, notwithstanding that the work was not begun in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Brisbane Letter. Railway Improvements. Brisbane, May 21
The trucking yards and goods sheds at the Roma-street railway station, the principal assembling centre for farm and dairy produce from the Darling Downs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Trams
Ten years hence the local authorities in the metropolitan area will have the right to take over the electric tramways at a valuation, and work them in the interests…
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Mr. Peter A. Brown Widener, who has bought Lord Lansdowne's famous Rembrandt, "The Mill," for £100,000, is a Philadelphia man, who, as may be imagined,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Aeroplane Disaster. Aviator Acquitted. Paris
The magistrate appointed to inquire into the disaster at Issy, when M. Berteaux, the Minister for War, was killed, and M. Monis, the Premier,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Motor Derailed
The motor of the tram which left Newcastle for West Wallsend at half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon was thrown from the rails shortly before…
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Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., has received the following letter from Mr. S. W. Conyers, secretary and member of the tramway proposal committee:—"I am directed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Coast Railway. Details of the Route. Sydney
The following detailed information of those sections of the North Coast railway, which Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Works, recently announced he intended…
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