Railway Smash. Trains in Collision. Sudney
There was a railway smash, at Waterfall station last night. The passenger train from Wollongon collided with a locomotivte coming from another direction, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1912
1,386 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 70
The High Road and the Low
A coastal town—the seat of Government of a Shire Council—has as its main ar-tery two branch roads, one skirting the foothills of the coastal range, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Railway. Sydney
The tender of J. Allibone, of Wingham, has been accepted for the erection of the engine shed at Tarce, on the North Coast railway, at £5770…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Cablegrams Collision of Trams. Paris
In a collision of suburban trams at Bondy nine were killed and seventeen injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Department. the Premier's Policy of Interference. Chief Commissioner Asked to Agree. Sydney
The Government has finally dealt with the various representations made as to the conditions of the lower grades in the railway and tramway services. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Troubles. Commissioner and Ministers. Sydney
Mr. G. S. Beeby, Acting Premier, denies that there are strained relations between Mr. T. Johnson, the Chief Railway Commissioner, and the Government. He says…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unrest in the West. Dissatisfaction of Railway Employes. Sydney
Industrial unrest in West Australia is very acute. A possible dislocation of the railway service is talked of the men [?] ing for an all round increase in wages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strike. Less Hours and More Pay. Buenos Ayres
The masters have accepted and the railwaymen have rejected the Minister of the Interior's intervention in the widespread strike which had begun for increased pay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Unrest. Thomas' Vigorous Defence. Not Hounded Out by Hooligans. London
Mr. James Thomas, M.P. for Cardiff, says he fully accepted the responsibility of preventing the railway strike at Christmas, and he is not going to be hounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Disaster. Montreal
The death roll in the express disaster has been reduced. Only five bodies were discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Notthern Star. Published Daily. Thursday, January 11, 1912. Railway Unrest
Yesterday's cablegrams gave us a good insight into the conditions governing the present disturbing influences existing among railway employees in Great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Earnings. Mr.beeby on the Objects of Railways. the Cost of Labor Demands. Sydney
Acting Premier Beeby states that the main object, of State owned railways is not profit making, but public convenience and cheap transit: Mr. Beeby states…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strike. Troops to Preserve Freedom of Labour. Buenos Ayres
The Government, have reinforced the garrison in order to guarantee the freedom of Labour. The railways have been authorised to employ anyone regardless of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tweed Railway Extension. Tril Survey to Be Made
Mr. G. T. Hindmarsh, M.L.A., forwards us for publication copy of the following letter he has received from the Minister of Works, the Hon. A. Griffith, under date…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Employees' Advance. Sydney
The Chief Commissioner of Rallways has decided to raise the minimum wage in the service from 7s to 7s 6d per day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Straw for Road Making
At a meeting of the Wyaldra (Gulgong) Shire Council recently, Councillor Bowman read an extract from an American paper which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Motor Mail Service. Opposed by the Tomki Council
At the meeting yesterday of the Tomki Shire Council a letter was read from the Lismore Municipal Council which asked the Council's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Paris Motor Accident
All Paris is shocked by a lamentable motor-car accident, in which Mrs Joseph Laycock, formerly the Marchioness of Downshire, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Perils Sir William Rattigan, M.p., Killed
Widespread sympathy is being expressed with Lady Rattigan for the terrible loss she has sustained in the death of her husband, Sir William Rattigan,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peking Railway Threatened. Negotiations with Russia. Peking
The Shansi revolutionaries have entered Honan. The Government, realising that the Peking-Hankau railway is menaced, are concentrating troops from Hanyang…
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