Motor Cycling
The Great Northern Motor-cycle Club has hold a hill-climbing contest near Newcastle. There were seventeen motor cyclist present, the winner being L. W…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1911
741 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 38
A Kitten and a Tram
An electric tramway car travelling between Tolworth and Surbiton recently was held up for some minutes the other day through a pretty sliver grey…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Train Derailed. Many Persons Injured. Valparaiso
A train, derailed on a bridge, was precipitated into a ravine near the Braden copper mines. Fifty were killed or injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mexican Train. Stuck Up and Robbed. Vancouver
The Mexican Central passenger train was stuck up and robbed in Texas yesterday. Four hundred rebels had previously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Train. Two Persons Killed. Halifax
A train was wrecked near the village of New Germany, in Nova Scotia. The cars took fire, and one man was burned to death. Another was fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Decentralisation
The proceedings of the Railway Decentralisation Commission show how deep-rooted is the prejudice in favour of a system the obvious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident. Two Men Killed. Brisbane
A serious accident occurred on Saturday morning on the Blackbutt railway extension. A ballast train struck a staging on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Railway Accident. Six Persons Injured. Melbourne
A serious railway accident occurred at the Flinders-street station to-night, when the Port Melbourne train ran into a light engine at ten minutes past nine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Stocks. Refusal to Increase Charges. London
The United States Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to permit an increase in freights greatly excited the London Stock Exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →United States Railways. Washington
The Interstate Commerce Commission has recommended that the tariff be lowered on nearly all merchandise by 18 per cent. in the East and 16 per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Russian Railway. Through Southern Siberia. St. Petersburg
The Russian Government is about to build a Southern Siberian railway. The route will be along the Ural Mountains to Ounburg, Akmolinsk,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Land and Water. Test of a Hydro-aeroplane. San Francisco
Mr. Glen Curtiss, an English aviator, flew six miles over San Diego Bay. He rose from the water and alighted on land, and then rose from the land and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opening Up the State. the Railway Commission. Chief Commissioner's Evidence Sydney
Mr. Johnson, the Chief Commissioner for Railways, gave evidence to-day before the Decentralisation Commission at the Works Department Mr. Oliver, C.M.G.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Roads
The Tarro shire Council has scarcely met to transact business on any occasion but that a volley of complaints have been made by ratepayers from all parts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Works to Be Pushed On. Sydney
At the end of last week Mr. Carmichael communicated with the Railway Commissioners, asking whether duplication works at Newcastle could be expedited, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strange Railway Accident
A very Bad and strange accident occurred on The Main Trunk Railway the other day, by which a young woman met her death in an extraordinary manner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall of an Aeroplane. a Woman Killed. Madrid
A French aviator's aeroplanes collapsed and fell amongst the spectators at the Hippodrome. One woman was killed and several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. Some Phases of Centralisation.—the Necessity for Relieving Sydney's Harbour.—cheaper Train Fares for Regular Travellers.—what Makes the Rent?—our New Rear-admiral.—the Soudan Contingent Reunion. Sydney
Observe the cut diamond. Change your position ever so slightly, and there is a fresh ray. Observe centralisation. Pick up anything extra about it, and there in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Railway Trouble. Another Accident. Paris
The Paris newspaper "Le Journal" states that the various French railway boards have decided to resign rather than reinstate the employees who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cycling and Motoring
It will surprise most of our readers to learn what inroads the motor car is making into horse traffic to London. Five years ago there were 500,000 horses in…
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