Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. Railway Retrenchment
Complaints are being made that the Railway Commissioners are not retrenching fairly, one section [?] to [?] the whole b[?]rden…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1903
160 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 8
Cheap Railways
It is safe to say that a lamentable want of energy and also foresight, has been exhibited by past government of every State, in regard to…
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Retrenchment in the railways is the burning topic of the hour. The Railway Commisssoners have decided that the workmen in the sheds shall take Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Funny Scene in a Tramway Car
A somewhat Tussy old gentleman' one afternoon' got up in a tramcar' to give his seat to a young lady. Presently there was a vacancy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Train Struck by Lightning
A curious accident (says the “Scientific American” of December 6 last) befell an electric street railroad car m the north of England recently, during a thunderstorm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presentation to Mr. G. Thompson Railway Station-master. a Hearty, and Complimantary Send-off
IT is now generally known that Mr. George Thompson, who for the past two years has held the position of railway station-master at Queanbeyan, has taken his departure to…
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THE January number of the Railway Budget, the official organ of the Railway Institute, has recently been issued and among many other items of interest it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Bridge
"LONDON BRIDGE" on Wednesday night was the scene of the most jovial entertainment yet held in that locality. The occasion attributed its origin to the expediency of…
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The Rock Island express was held up towards the end of November about midnight, within the limits of the City of Davenport, Howa, by a gang of twelve to fifteen men…
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While the Baltimore and Ohio express was travelling at the rate of 65 miles an hour it collided with a local train at Graceland, New Jersey. The impact was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramp Question Sowed
"I think I have solved the train[?] problem in a perfectly satisfactory way," said a farmer, named Baker, as the subject was under discussion…
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An amusing story is told in the North China Herald' of an attempt of a French engineer to combine scientific investigations and railroad building in Corea. He…
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“Hear that tapping under the [?] asked the conductor the other day I had heard it (writes Captain Cutt[?]e)—a low,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Perils of Bridge Building
Writing on the subject of American bridge-building in the "Century Magazine," Mr. F. W. Skinner gives some interesting details of the…
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A telegram from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on January 8, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, says:— As a result of a collision between a passenger train and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Speed of Motor Cars
When the relation of speed to horse-power to considered the results are puzzling. For example a 12 horse-power Gladiator car, weighing…
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Inactivity reigns on the site of the grand central railway station, which was to be the grandest edifice of the kind in the Southern hemisphere. The public are now…
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Bungendore, Tuesday.—The driver and fireman of the stock train to-day were nearly suffocated, and were badly scalded about the hands and arms by steam, while coming…
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A few weeks ago it was suggested-that there were too many Toad maintenance men in the State, and an inquiry was made into the matter. A departmental notice was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road Maintenance Men
SOME time ago it was suggested that there were too many road maintenance men in the State. and an inquiry was made into the matter. A departmental notice was sent…
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