He Was a Railway Porter
A thin man, with a distressing cough, was inspecting some portmanteaus and trunks in front of a West End shop the other day, when the proprietor of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1898
68 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 4
A Train on Fire
Sydney, Tuesday.—The Western Mail train caught fire 27 miles from Bourke last night. The fire originated in a tarpaulin which was covering a truck of chaff, and…
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A SENSATIONAL occurrence took place on Monday night, the western mail train having caught fire when within 27 miles of Bourke. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Bridge
The contractors for the new bridge, Messrs Hungerford and sons, are making good progress with the work. They have commenced on the four piers, and are building each up in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Obtain Umbrellas Cheap. Scene—Lost Property Office at the Victoria Cross Terminus of the East Western Railway. Act I.
A fashionably-dressed lady enters. Lady: "I left an umbrella in the ladles' first-class waiting-room yesterday afternoon. Have you got it here?"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Giraffe in a Railway Truck
Responsible for the transit of a giraffe from Liverpool to London, a railway man managed to get it upstanding in a truck; but the stupid thing declined to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Story of the Railway Whistle
I am told that on the railway line which I know best, the London and Soulh-Western. the shriek of the railway whistle, no familiar to all of us, particularly at travelling times,…
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She wished she stood within his shoes, Because he had a seat; But since that was impossible, She stood upon his feet…
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