The New Siberian Railway
An interesting statement as to the strategic value of the trans Siberian railway was made lately by Mr, Fulford Bush a New [?] merchant, before the Liverpool Chamber of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
147 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 8
Motoring
The vicissitudes of motoring were seen yesterday when the Araluen coach came up Wallace Street with a motor car in two picked up along the road. The cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traveller. Luxury on the Railway Lines
THE unaccustomed voyager is always somewhat puzzled when he finds that the menus of the sumptuous meals served on board the…
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Holmes Francisco, a well-known business man of Rutland, Vt., U.S.A., has invented and patented a block signal device for railroad use, which he believes will make…
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On January 27 a telegram from New York to an English paper stated that Mr W. K Vanderbilt, jr., again drove his 90 horse power Mercedes automobile a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Tram Guards
The “Newsletter” writes sympathetically of the Sydney tram guard:— The discussion about tram guards and fares in the papers favours the officials, who,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train to Travel 300 Miles an Hour
Dr. Albertson, a distinguished electrical engineer of the Royal University of Denmark, has finished an invention as the outcome of which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Selected Poetry. the Road'll Turn Some Day
I KNOW the road is rocky, And the hills are hard to climb; I know the feet get bruised and sore, And it takes "heaps o' time."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Do-mile-an-hour-train. Responypossble on a Special Line
The Prussian State railways be between humbug, Hanover and Berlin will shortly conduct an Interesting Competition between trains The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whilst Jumping Off a Tramcar
'Looker-on' describes a very cations accident which happened in Birmingham the other day, on the cable oar rente. A certain male passenger emulating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir John Forrest’s Mission. the Overland Railway. From the Melbourne “ Argus.")
Sir John Forrest has one object in life— to obtain the construction of the transcontinental railway. He has many calls upon his time in his department, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wireless Message to a Moving Train
Signals were recently exchanged between a station and a train which was running at the rate of 50 miles an hour. No attempt was made to…
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We must go to [?] to find the fastest tram in the world, which traverses a journey of 40 miles, including stoppages, in two hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Romance and Tragedy of Railway Making
The romance of railways is a thing which the poets are very properly trying to make tho people perceive The romance of lions and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Queen Almost Run Over by a Tram Car
Queen Olge of Greece, the sister-in-law of Queen Alexandra, was recently very nearly run over by a tram- car in Athens. Her Majesty left the Palace with Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Clerk's Income
My husband is a railway booking clerk whose average wage with Sunday pay, is £1 16s per week. Herewith I enclose table weekly expenditure:--Husband's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a Third-class Railway Carriage
The following amusing dialogue took place a short time back, which might be a warning to outspoken people. Just a train was about to start out of Manchester a gentlemen sprang into a second class…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mono Railway
It was intended to work the monorail line between Manchester and Liverpool by electricity at speeds as high as 110 miles an hour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Adventure in a Motor Car
In an interesting article in "Pearson's Magazine," Mr. B. Fletcher Robinson writes of the dangers and the delights of motor-racing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Dog
'L Illustration,' a Paris journal, publishes the portrait of an apparently new animal, a kind of dog, with eyes literally as big as saucers, and an extra cuticle…
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