Scalped by a Tram
JAMES WILLIAM FURLONG, 8 years of age, living at Redfern, was crossing the tram line on Wednesday night when a tram struck him, and the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
124 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 7
A War Motor
The newly invented ironclad war motor to which reference has been made in cablegrams, is shaped something like a tortoise. About all that would be visible to the eye…
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In connection with the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Central Railway Station, which took place on the 30th ultimo, Mr. Oliver, Chief…
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Sir Harry Johnston, speaking at the Author’s Club dinner, said: “The most romantic thing I know about Africa is the Uganda railway. It is a romance that a…
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Brisbane, Thursday,—Early to-night a sensational accident occurred at Roma street railway station. The driver of a goods train [?] body on the [?]…
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Patrick MeTamany was a switchman at one of the Pemaeyl[?] Railroad crossings in Jersey City, where there is an intricate network of tracks over which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Dog That Saved a Train
It has long been a problem whether the palm should be awarded to the horse or dog as the fleet friend of man among the brutes, end without any desire to decide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Romances of the Road, [All Rights Reserved] Swift Nick
The closing period of the seventeenth century was the golden age of highwaymen. They were generally cowardly ruffians, who took cero never to attack unless the odds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Shore Bridge
At the opening of the Pyrmont Bridge by the Governor on Saturday the Minister for Works stated that tenders for the [?] of North Shore bridge would be opened…
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Paris in the motor car race from Paris to Vienna have been allotted the first six places. British and German competitors are greatly disgusted with the unfairness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight Hours for the Railway Men
A DISTURBANCE of the friendly relations that have [?]ween the employees of the Railway Department and the Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Romances of the Road. [All Rights Reserved] a Duel on Wimbledon
The dame of Thomas James Brudeael, sixth Earl of Cardigan, and the last of hw line, will recall to most readers of history the plains of Balaclava and the charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ways of Living. Tricks of Railway Thieves
THERE are specialists among thieves as in the legitimate professions; and it was from one of two comrades who for several years…
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The Minster for Works was asked on Friday afternoon by a deputation of lime producers, and merchants, introduced by Mr. T. Rose M.L.A. to construct a short loopline…
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WHILE shunting in the local railway yards last night the engine attached to the Cooma-Goulburu mail train was derailed. The mishap occurred at one of the points…
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S[?]atin Pasha, the British Inspector-General of the Soudan, who is on a visit to London, in the course of tin interview, expressed the opinion that it would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Romances of the Road. [All Rights Reserved.] the Derbyshire Rebels
On the evening of June 8th, 1817, a strange scene was taking place in the parlour of the White Horse Inn at Pentrich. Pentrich is a village a few miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway in the Air
Visitors to the south coast of England during the summer were considerably interested in watching the working of a marvellously constructed ropeway at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and Comments. Railways and Politics
The Commercial Travellers’ banquet on Saturday night was as usual a brilliant affair. The Governor, Sir Harry Rawson, was present, and among the speakers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Railway Race in America
One of the greatest railroad races ever entered into in the United States is now being carried out by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central (says a telegram of…
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