The Shut-eye Train
Come, my little one, with me. There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall On your pretty cap and gown…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1916
781 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 40
A Motor Cycling Record
As Australia has given the world a lead in quite a number of ways. It is entirely in accordance with the fitness of things that a world's record in the matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Motor Car Mystery
Fergus Hume made a big name of a kind, and much money, by that very poor class detective story which he wrote in Melbourne called "The Mystery of a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Brave Railway Men. Save Waggon Loads of Munitions. Paris
A Zeppelin flying over Revigny endeavoured to bomb 70 waggon-loads of munitions. The stationmaster and two assistants…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toronto Requirements. the Railway Station
The movement for railway platform accommodation close to the wharf to obviate the necessity of the long walk and climb over the bridge has not yet met…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trans-australian Railway. Gilchrist to Be Transferred Melbourne
It transpires that Mr. H. E. Marnie, the senior assistant engineer at the Kalgoorlie end of the transcontinental line, has also been dismissed for refusing to reinstate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blizzard in Derbyshire. Train Snowed Up London
The blizzard in Derbyshire continues. A train has been snowed up at Minniglow station for a week. Gangs of men endeavouring, to dig it out were forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Railway Trouble. the Departmental View. Sydney
There has been a stoppage of work by the men employed in certain of the gangs on the fifth section of the North Coast railway, extending from Wauchope to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trans-australian Railway. Strike Not Supported. Melbourne
Mr. O'Maliey, the Minister for Home Affairs, to-day received a telegram from Kalgoorlie, stating that at a union meeting last night, the railway employees,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers and Railway Tickets
At the meeting of the Newcastle City Council last night, Alderman Hail referred to what he characterised as an appalling sight when the train was leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Old Railway Official
Mr. M. G. Thompson, who has retired from the railway service after a record of forty years, was for the last ten years of that period station master at West…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers and Railway Fares
The town clerk of Newcastle has addressed the following letter to the State Premier, at the direction of the City Council:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Motor Car Murder. Melbourne
At the Melbourne City Court to-day, two men, Leslie Taylor, aged 23, a dealer, and John Williamson, aged 42, a mechanic, were charged with having insufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Men's Pay. Board's Award Upheld. Sydney
As a result of the decision of Mr. Justice Edmunds to-day in the Industrial Court, in the appeals by the Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Railway Works. Appeal to Federal Treasurer. Melbourne
A deputation waited on Mr. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, to-day, and, asked that the Commonwealth Government should financially assist the Victorian Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Locomotives
Mr. Hoyle, the State Minister for Railways, has announced the completion of one of the most important contracts which the Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trans-australian Railway. Minister's Notification. Melbourne
Mr. O'Malley, the Minister for Home Affairs, discounts the statement that the engine-drivers on the Kalgoorlie end of the Government railway works intend to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Railway Fares
There was some friction at the West Maitland railway station barrier yesterday afternoon, when about a hundred soldiers were present. The railway officials…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Trouble. Kalgoorlie
Mr. Hobler, the chief assistant Commonwealth railway engineer, did not reach the gold fields this morning as anticipated, but it is expected that he will arrive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swansea District. Railway and Land Development
The railway line now under construction by the New Redhead Land and Coal Company from Redhead to Belmont, and which will bring Newcastle into direct…
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