Railway Disaster
New Zealand has been singularly free from railway accidents, but before drawn on Wednesday last the Main. Trunk express crushed, full speed, into a goods…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
557 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 28
New South Wales Railways
Sir,—As a rule, New South Welshmen—and I am one—boast about their railways, but they have not so much reason to boast as they think. Before I travelled…
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Sir,—I notice that the present Goernment intend to issue life railway passes to certain gentlemen who have recently lost their positions on the board of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carrington Tramways
Sir,—I would like to draw attention to the action of the tramway authorities in fencing off the tramline at the Cowper-street stopping-place. Only two or three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Thieves. Many Arrests. Rome
The Italian police have made a number of arrests of members of the international gang of train robbers. Three guards, three brakesmen, six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swansea and Belmont. Railway Communication. Sydney
Mr. A. Edden. M.P., waited upon Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Works, to-day, and requested him to fix a date for an early visit to Belmont and Swansea,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramp Steamers. Engineers Dissatisfied. London
The executive committee of the Marine Engineers' Association has resolved to strike for better wages and condition on board tramp steamers in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adamstown Tramway. an Angry Deputation. Sydney
Mr. Hoyle, the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Railways, who has announced on more than one occasion he determination to put a stop to the late running of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor-boat Regulations. to Be Applied to Newcastle Sydney
Mr. Holman, the State Premier, has bad under consideration for some time the applications of regulations now applying to motor-boat traffic in Port Jackson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Passes. Adamstown Protest. Sydney
Mr. Holman, the Premier, was asked to-day it he had seen the resolution of protest adopted by the Adamstown branch of the P.L.L. in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District. Condition of Shire Roads
Mr. J. Ferry, shire engineer, has submitted a lengthy report to the Tarro Shire Council on the state of the roads within the shire. In the course of that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railwaymen's Union. London
Mr. Bellamy, president of the National Union of Railwaymen, addressing a meeting of that union at Swansea, Wales, said that the fusion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway World. Romance of History
At night the little lights that wink and glow along the track by day, the ungainly hut almost human-looking semaphores, with their gestures towards the heavens…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Taxes on Motor-cars. an Australian Move. London
A meeting of Agents-General in London has approved a proposition made by the Automobile Club to set before Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Romance of Commerce. Silks, Motors, Rubbers
Barely do we hear a word of the great manufacturing industries on which the nation's prosperity depends, rarely a single word of the gigantic…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Science and Invention, Motor Tyres
When a motor car is loaded, a properly inflated tyre should flatten about 2-5in., but never more than 3-5in. under any circumstance…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Life Passes on the Railway
Sir,—I notice that Mr. Holman is very wrath at members of the P.L.L, objecting to his action in proposing to present to certain persons free passes for life on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Sydney Letter. Publishing Unsavory Cases.—the Train That Came in to Time.—a Postal Matter of Some Important.—four Letters by Captain Cook.—a Really Good Writer.—an Old Lady of 94. SYDNEY
Should not more discretion be shown in the publication of court news? In a case where the evidence is unsavory—readers will understand—what good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adamstown Tramway Deputation
Sir,—No doubt the deputation were put to great inconvenience, but as Mr. Hoyle states in Saturday's issue, they should have waited for an explanation. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Railwaymen. Advocate Nationalisation. London
The Congress of Railwaymen at Sweasea, in passing a motion affirming the principle of nationalisation of railways, added that no State…
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