Fastest Long Distance Train in the World
A new train lately placed on the Paris-Calais run for the convenience of travel between Paris and London which is scheduled to cover the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1902
124 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 7
Opening of a Bridge
YOUAK BRIDGE, 22 miles north of Adaminaby, which connects Adaminaby and Queanbeyan districts, was opened on Friday by Mrs. Cochrane, sen., who is aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Ride to Braidwood
Mr. F. A. Drury put up a motor bicycle record on Thursday for the journey from Goulburn to Braidwood and back, a distance of 108 miles. He used the machine designed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Railway Commissioners
The Railway Commissioners have been reappointed for a further term of seven years. The Premier considers the reappointment in the interests of the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads and Bridges
A return of the amounts granted by the Government tor roads, bridges, and public watering places iu each electoral district since the opening of the present Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Pooh-bah
A RAILWAY passenger had been left at a little station on a Scotch branch line, where he had to wait for several hours, and was looking about in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Victorian Railway Employees
An anonymous letter received by the Victorian Minister for Railways states that the railway employees inted to strike during the Cup week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways and Tramways
The raport of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended September was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday night. The gross railway earnings show a decrease of £66,168…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Faster Than the Fastest Train a Mile in Thirty Seconds
Heroes of many startling feats of speed on their wheels the well known American cyclists the [?] brothers are now in training…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Goddess of Africa St. Geo Rathborne Chapter Xii. on the Road to Hades
When be had thus made sure of the quart or so of glistening gems that may have once bedecked the form of the ugliest of idols, Rex found that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General. EARING started at London Bridge this
THE next Quarter Sessions will be held at Queanbeyan on Tuesday, 20th January. ST. GREGORY'S CHURCH was brilliantly illuminated with acetylene gas on last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A True Story of an Armoured Train Within a Yard of Death (From the “Pall Mall Gazette”)
“Sergeant you will be in command of the train I shall be on the verandah of the farm over there If anything untoward happens, turn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Longest Railway Journey in the World
Most people imagine that the five days' run of the famous Western Express from New York to San Francisco is the longest railway Journey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Car Frown
We all know the "bicycle hump" now conies the automobile frown. In this newly developed affliction there is a distinct contraction of the muscles of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Retrenchment in the Railways
CONSIDERABLE disquietude is reported to be prevalent among the employees of the Railway Department of the Mother-State as to the truth of a rumour which has just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Motor Freak and Its Disastrous End
A few weeks ago the Baker Electric Motor Vehicle Company turned out a new and peculiarly-shaped machine, destined to “cut” all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoppage of a Train
The 4 o’clock train from Goulburn to Tarago on Saturday last had a narrow escape from serious accident. When approaching a cutting near the turn off to Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicycle Road Rage
Ah event, which created much interest in local cycling circles, in the form of a road race for a trophy-presented by Messrs. W. H. Paling and Co, Sydney came off on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sketcher. Story of a Motor Car
DEAR Mabel,--Although I wrote you a long letter yesterday, I must write again to-day and tell you the good news. Papa has…
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