Odds and Ends. (Onlooker.) the Cheap Excursion Train
How eagerly they are rushed by the deluded country folk. With more money in their pockets than sense elsewhere, they crowd to the city looking forward to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
147 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 8
Glue-making. (By “An Australian on Tramp.”)
You have all used glue at some time or another, haven’t you ? But hare you ever stopped to think from what it is made ? It’s very, very curious when you come to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bicycle Road Race
By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that our Bungendore friends are again to the fore in providing some amusement. Messrs E. T. Walsh and J. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How a Tramp Talks in Kentucky
A man whose garments appeared to be in the last stage of decomposition, whose half was [?] whose shoes were worn and whose step was weary, shuffled up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Great Railway Project. Shifting the World's Commercial Axis
The completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway has given birth to a new enterprise in which the American and French capitalists seem to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The London Bridge Property
ON Saturday afternoon Mr. Welsh of Messrs Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, at Mr. Hungerford's Hotel submitted to public auction the well-known London Bridge property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicycle Road Race
The bicycle road race, promoted by Messrs J. A. Sullivan and E. T, Walsh, came off as advertised on Saturday. The road was in capital going order, Eighteen nominations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Railway Disaster in America. Sixty-three Persons Killed
The San Francisco papers received by the mail, which arrived in Sydney on Friday last, give an account of a terrible railway disaster in Pennsylvania on the 23rd ultimo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trouble Probable Amongst Tram Employes
The great army of men employed in connection with the metropolitan tram system, having what they consider to be a grievance which affects them financially, have at last determined upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road Vote
If appears from a statement made by the Minister for Works that on December 31. last the total amount of money unexpended out of the £450000 voted by Parliament for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guarding the Royal Train
When the King and Queen travel in their special train very great precautions are taken by the railway company to ensure the safety of the Royal travellers,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The French Railways
From a recently published report it appears that the total number of employes on the French railways was as follows:--Managers and clerks, 3076; traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Locally made Railway Engines
THE Railway Commissioners recently invited tenders for 60 engines, half the number to be for passenger traffic, and the remaining 30 for heavy goods work. The conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Novel Bridge
The story of a remarkable engineering font comes from California A great sift ion of mountain was recently torn off by 10,0001bs. of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a Racing Motor-car
Mr. Charles Jarrott describes in the " Badminton Magazine," how ho won the Ardines Automobile Race. To do this he had to cover 321 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Sensation
A motor-car with a party of English tourists met with a sensational accident at Cannes, France. The car collided with a tree while travelling at a fast pace, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Engineering F[?] Ok the Burmak Railway
What is considered one of the finest engineering feast ever accomplished is the spaning of the Goke[?] in Burmah. The contract was given…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tramps’ Paradise
The railway bridge and environs (says the “Dubbo Liberal”) must be the “Hotel Australia” of the western tramp routes. this establishment is always…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway [?] in Goulburn
Those railway employees who have applauded the efforts of the Government and Labour party in trying to put up records in the way of lavish expenditure, are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a Tramway Gar
An old man. leaving work got into a car He had not gone far before the conductor asked him for two pence . The man said it was one…
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