Tube Railway Mishap. Current Short-circuits. London
Owing to the short-circuiting of the electric current in the Piccadilly tube railway line the passengers became greatly alarmed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1913
715 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 36
Tramway Employees. Adelaide Rates. Adelaide
The Municipal Tramway Trust has fixed separate rates of wages for motormen, and conductors, because it has been advised that the award of Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By Train and Tram. Big Holiday Traffic
Although the inward train traffic to Newcastle on New year's Day constituted a record for Newcastle the actual figures were not available as to the total number…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silent Motor-cycles
Silent motor-cycles! It sounds almost too good to be true. But the Local Government Board will bring into force on March 1st next now regulations which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →King-street Tramway Smash. Report of the Board. Sydney
A departmental board, consisting of Mr. John Kneeshaw, traffic superintendent, and Mr. O. W. Brain, electrical engineer, hold an inquiry into the circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Novel Motor-cycle Tubes
English motor-cyclists are trying out an innovation in inner tubes. Instead of the old method of laying the ends of the tubes over each other in the outer casing, they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Railway. Recent Washaways. Sydney
Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Public Works, has received a further report from the Chief Engineer for Railway and Tramway Construction regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway Matters
One of the chief improvements in the transit services was the duplication of the tramlines from Hannell-street to Tighe's Hill, and though the daily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motor Cycle
I have on more than one occasion during the past year called attention on this page to the amazing growth in the popularity of the cycle-car in England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London News. London, November 29. Christmas Signs.—canadian Navy.—home Rule Debate.—lord Roberts.—the Motor Cycle. Christmas Signs
The coming of the Christmas season is already being felt. The bookstalls are beginning to be gay with the Christmas numbers of the weekly papers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tube Railways. French System
One of the things that strike the stranger in Paris is the reserve which the "Tubes" here maintain as to the names of their stations, said the Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Vehicle Control
The checking of the speed of motor-driven vehicles is not the only direction in which control is necessary, and it is not the only phase of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision with a Train. Motor Car Smashed. London
While conveying gold to Purfleet, a motor car stock in a railway crossing, and was smashed up by a train. The occupants were not injured, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grievance Hearer. a Railway Appointment. London
The London North-western Railway Company has expressed itself satisfied with the results of a prolonged experiment of an officer appointed as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summons Cases. Fast Motoring
A case was dealt with in which Howard Nattrass was proceeded against, at the instance of the police, for having driven a motor car at an excessive speed. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Employees' Wages. Traffic Branch Claims. Sydney
The New South Wales Railways Traffic Employees' Association has drawn up a log of claims for submission to the chairman of the No. 3 Board of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burned to Death. Under a Motor Car. Calcutta
Two Bengali jute brokers were motoring, and in endeavouring to avoid a buffalo their car fell into a ditch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Gold Robbery. on a German Railway. Berlin
A box of specie, valued at £5000, has been stolen between Berlin and Hamburg. It was intended to be sent to Rio…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Fuels
The question of an adequate supply of gasoline for internal combustion engines is again becoming acute (says the "Scientific American"). Several times during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trackless Tramcars. a Sydney Proposal. Sydney
The tramway authorities have decided toe introduce the railless electric traction system to Sydney. Arrangements with the Loughsborough…
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