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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1902

124 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 7

Railway to Jervis Bay

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 3

At Thursday night's sitting of the Berry Progress Association, the president, Mr. Lovegrove, reported that a league had been formed at Jervis Bay to urge the extension…

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The Motor Car

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 March 1902 · page 2

The motor cars of to-day may be divided into three classes according to the means used for their propulsion [?] steam and electrical [?]…

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Railway En[?] Improvement

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1902 · page 2

If the novel valve gear invented by Mr. J. T. Marshall, a Leeds engineer, accomplishes all that is claimed for it by a correspondent of the Times, it will represent an…

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Ways of Living. the Railway Clerk

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 1

FOR some years, writes a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,' it has been my custom to receive lengthy and confidential letters…

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Crookwell Railway

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 2

The official opening of the Crookwell railway will take place on April 22, and the ceremony will be performed by the Minister for works. This might be availed of as an…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Thursday. Railway Receipts

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners report the receipts of the Department during the past nine months show an increase of £214,000. The expenditure has also largely increased…

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Extension of Railways

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 2

Speaking at the opening of the Progress Association’s Union conference at the Town Hall, Sydney, on Wednesday, on the subject of railway extension, the State Premier…

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Goulburn to Crookwell Railway

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 2

THE official opening, to be performed by the Sate Minister for Works, has been fixed for April 22. The line is single one, thirty-three miles in length. The cost,…

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Motor Cars and Horses

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 4

OWING, to the spread of automobilism (says the London Daily Telegraph) horses in Paris are dying out. According to the…

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What Private Railways Do

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 2

The Canadian correspondent of the “Pastoralists’ Review ” reports as follows . “To promote improvement in the breed of cattle the Canadian Pacific Railway and the…

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The Cape to Catro Railway

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1902 · page 2

An agreement has been signed Brussels providing for carrying the Cape to Catro railway to Victoria Falls and from [?] to Lake Kasari whence there will…

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Facination of Bridge

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

As most people axe aware, the great card game which has taken Society by storm is “Bridge,” Why this game should have attained the…

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In a Japanese Railway Car

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

A writer in the “Pall Mall Magazine” in describing scenes in Japanese railways, says when a native lady enters a carriage she slips her feet…

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Great Modern Inventions. Railways

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

An American scientific writer says : From the earliest times until the second-quarter of the present century there was no change in the methods of artificial locomotion. The…

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The Great Siberian Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 2

The last rail of the great Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok has been laid, and with the completion of this great highway…

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Bicycle Road Race

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 May 1902 · page 3

QUITE a number of spectators assembled at Majura on Saturday to witness tho bicycle road race, keen interest being manifested in the result. The distance was…

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Braidwood-tarago Railway

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1902 · page 2

We are well pleased, and we believe that a large majority of people in the district will join in our pleasure, to be able to state that through the good offices of Mr. Albert E,…

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Royal Motorists

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 May 1902 · page 2

King Edward, although he has been initiated into the (.mysteries of motordriving is seldom his own chauffeur but prefers to enjoy his rides without…

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Accepted Road Tenders

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 May 1902 · page 2

THE following are the accepted tenders for the undermentioned road work:--Contract No. 1101-02, Bungendore to Black Range, eight tenders; lowest, J. Walsh, [?]57;…

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Romances of the Road, [All Rights Reserved ] the Siece of Pontefract Castle

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 May 1902 · page 2

There are few spots round which more grim memories are centred then the old castle that stands over the little town of Pontefract . It ha a wonderful record of…

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