Railway Ticket Scalpers
The term “ ticket scalpers ” is applied to a class if individuals who buy at a reduced price the return half of a ticket which a passenger may find, owing to unforeseen…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
147 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 8
Railway Strike
There is a deadlock on the railways in Hungary, in consequence of a strike by the employees for higher pay. The strikers are using the trains to convey country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Marvellous Railway. Alpine Climbing Without Danger
The railway up to the summit of Mont Blane, which will shortly be commenced from Chamounix, will be the most marvellous one in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Contracts
The tenders of D. Riedy and W. Travers have been accepted for work on the [?] road and Tarago to Braidwood road, respectively. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hungarian Railway strike
The railway strike which paralysed traffic in Hungary has collapsed in consequence of the vigorous action taken by the Premier. The men agreed to accept the terms offered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Tramway Collision
Yesterday two electric trams cam into collision in George street West. The cars were damaged and a little girl had one hand out by the broken glass, but otherwise there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →J. Bridge & Co. Report:--
WOOL.-- Since our last report a very good demand, has existed in the local market for all qualities, fine merinoes being especially in favour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Railway Rates
THE new railway rates came into operation yesterday. The new rates book contains a number of alterations, particularly in respect to the charges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Accident
The train leaving Go[?]lburn this morning ran over a boy, aged ten named O’Rerily The train passed over the lower portion of the child’s body, almost severing the legs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Team V. Railway
We learn that the Cooma storekeepers are arranging to have their bulk goods brought by steamer and team, owing to the increase in the railway rates. It is stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Railway Rates
THE new railway rates just introduced by the Railway Commissioners, and which came into operation on Monday lat, are causing a considerable amount of alarm among country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dirty Railway Carriage
A great many people have travelled is trains daring the past fortnight and many must have noticed the dirty state of the seats in not a few of the carriages,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Ride in a Motor Car
'General' Theodora Brump, of Coronado Beach, California, who is a confirmed motorist completes of the prejudies against motor-cars exhibited by the birds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transferred Railway Tickets
A SHORT time back a man named Edgar Kauter was fined at Maitland upon a charge preferred against him by the railway commissioners of using a ticket which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Fares and Freights
A DEPUTATION representing the Country Storekeepers' Association waited on the Railway Commissioners on Thursday and placed before them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Railway Rates
WRITING to a Sydney daily on this topic Mr. Robert Macdonald says:-- Is this country not cursed enough just now with the results of political…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coming of the Motor Car
"You can't allow motor cars to run on the public road at anything like a pace that will satisfy their owners (says "The Colonel" in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Car
"Dick, how do you think you will like the horseless carriage?" "It won't do at all; the files that used to worry the horses will now worry the people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Revenue
It is gleaned from return [?] to the Treasury officials, by the Railway Commissioners, that the earnings of the railways during the 11 months of the…
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