Fire in a Railway Truck
UPON the approach of the mail train from Cooma on Monday night the station-master at Bungendore saw smoke and flames issuing from a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
192 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 10
A Machine which Records Rough Roads
A machine which when carried on a locomotive or car records the rough places in the track has enabled the Japanese narrow gauge railroads to…
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PASSENGERS by the north-western mail making its way through the night towards Sydney, were just before 12 o'clock on Tuesday night…
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AT a meeting of the Yass Municipal Council held on Tuesday evening, a letter was read from Mr. Neilson, M.L.A., in connection with the proposed…
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A RAILWAY smash occurred to the north-west mail at 11.40 on Tuesday night two miles beyond Blanford Railway station, and at the 112 miles peg…
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The Northern Hoe was interrupted early on Wednesday by an accident to the North-western mail train, which left the Narrsbri-Moree line, for Sydney on Tuesday afternoon. The train had a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Valedictory. Send Off to Mr. J. McNAMARA of London Bridge
AT Hungerford's Victoria Hotel last night there was a large attendance of the friends of Mr. John McNamara and family, to bid him farewell prior to his departure from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]Ass -- Queanbeyan Railway
AT the meeting of the Yass Municipal Council held on Tuesday evening, a letter was read from Mr. Nielson, M.L.A., in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerial Tramway. the Berlin Idea
All modern large cities have to face the all-important problem of rapid transit and traffic. When carriages became insufficient,…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Mechanics Institute on Friday evening last (says the Courier) for the purpose of taking steps to induce the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass—Queanbeyan Railway. Meeting at Yass
THE meeting convened by the Mayor at the request of the council, for Friday night, for the purpose of discussing the proposed Yass. Queanbeyan railway was very poorly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Omnibus Man. a Day in His Life. Trying Ordeal
Apropos of the recent strike of motor 'busmen, in London a contributor to the "Daily Mail" of 4th January Wrote as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Motor Wheel. Substitute for Pneumatic Tyres
In a report to the Washington Bureau of Manufactures, Mr. Thomas H. Norton, the United States. Consul at Chemnitz, gives particulars of a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Why Leap Year? Maids "Bespeak Men." a Railway Conversation
"Leap year again," said the Man in the Corner (writes a contributor to the "Dally Mall"), looking up from his newspaper with a humorous eye upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Across America by Motor-car
During the latter months of 1906 a remarkable motor-cycle journey, which is without a parallel in the annals of the sport, and as a feat of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loses Its Way. a French Train. in Front of Express
From Paris on 7th January the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:— A passenger train on the Northern of France line literally lost its way last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Knocked Down by a Motor-Car
Round the corner came the motor-car, and the driver saw right in his path a man with a gun over his shoulder and a sick-looking dog by his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Requirements
AGITATION is proceeding at Yass for the construction of a railway from Yass to Queanbeyan, which would pass through and give excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Uganda Railway
The following is an amusing story concerning the adventures of a Babu stationmaster at a station called Simba, on the Uganda Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A London K.c. His Gentleman Chauffeur. Road to Success
It is difficult to say who has achieved most fame during the last few days, Mr Marshall Hall, the eminent K.C., or his chauffeur, who, summoned at Croydon…
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