A Strategic Railway
The announcement by Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister, that he intends to ask the sanction of Parliament to the construction of a strategic line of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1915
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 22
Motor Accident. Melbourne
Harvey Finlayson, 35 years, of Adelaide was killed yesterday afternoon by a motor accident at Elwood. With W. S. Hosking, of Adelaide, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Progress of Wickham. Hannell-street Bridge
The owners and occupiers of the properties on the eastern side of Habbell street, from the railway gates to the Imperial Picture Theatre, have recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strategical Railway. Mr. Fisher's Views. Melbourne
Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister, has issued another statement on the strategleal railway question as follows. "Some striking alterations in the distances…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Subscriptions
The subscriptions to the New South Wales Railways and Tramways War Fund from January 30th to February 22nd totalled £1266 1s 4d. The committee have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality Near Ourimbah. Three Men Mutilated by a Train. Sydney
A shocking fataliay occurred last evening about six o'clock, near Ourimbah, on the northern line, 56 miles from Sydney. The particulars received by the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Parade
On Thursday, March 25, Messrs. Dix and Baker's great benefit for the Belgium Fund will be the means of introducing many novelties. Prizes are to be given…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →China and Japan. Manchurian Railway. Pekin
At the Chine-Japanese Conference China agreed to nineteen years' extension of the Southern Manchurian railway agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Maryville. the Tramway Service
A communication from the office of the Chief Railway Commissioner was read at the Wikham Council meeting last evening, in reply to the representations…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Railway Proposal. Proposed Modifications. Sydney
Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Works, to-day supplied some interesting information as to certain important modifications made in the city railway scheme as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Wing Covering
Many different materials have been tried for covering the wings of aeroplanes, including linen, silk, cotton, celluloid films, and aluminium foil. To the lay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident. Fourteen Persons Killed Madrid
A train became derailed between Vigo and Oreuse. Fourteen persons were killed and eighteen injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Tramway System
It seems to some of us that not long ago we were watching the beginning of the cable tram system; then an entire novelty, and wondering how the ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Allies Destroy a Bridge. Enemy's Fire Improves. Athens
The Allies destroyed a bridge near a town on the Dardanelles, used for the transport of artillery for the forts. The enemy’s fire Improved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tighe's Hill Tramway Shelter
Sir,—I desire to call the attention of the powers that be, either the council or the Government, to the had state of the road opposite the tramway shelter at Tighe’s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Attack. on Trans-siberian Railway. Pekin
Captain von Pappenholm, a German military attache, and his party, who escaped from Tsing-tao, left Pekin, after securing Chinese passports, professing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Crossings
Sir,—A few months ago I noticed in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" that a number of people had been fined for crossing the railway line near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Aeroplane. Off the Kentish Coast. London
A German aeroplans was observed three miles off the North Foreland, on the east coast of Kent, on Monday. It dropped five bombs, which narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Motor Waggons. Intercepted by the Allies Paris
"Le Matin" says that Germany, when preparing for war, ordered 8000 motor waggons from an American company for the purpose of transporting troops from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality
John Bradwell, a railway worker, was killed on the railway line near Regent-street gates yesterday at about ten o'clock, Deceased was about twenty yards away…
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