Emotions Beneath a Train
Describing his feelings as he lay between the metals while a goods train which had knocked him down, passed over his body, John Hughes, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1909
116 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6
A Motor Smash Up
ONE of the worst accidents by motor car so far experienced about Yass, where a great many cars of all kinds and conditions pass along, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Washaway on the Railway
ABOUT eight o'clock last night a terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy hail, passed over Burbong. The rain fell in torrents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Chaffeur. Professional Lady Motor Driver
The lady chauffeur has arrived. We have had lady lawyers, lady doctors, lady porters, and lady barbers, but the fair amid: who dons a big coat and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Disaster. on the Midland Railway. Expresses in Collision. Wreckage Ablaze. 7 Killed, 20 Injured. Terrible Scenes
Not since the Bullhouse accident, near Penistone, in 1884, when 24 persons were killed and 60 injured by the breaking of a crank-axle of a fast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Frederick Bridge. Some of His Witticisms
Sir Frederick Bridge is the subject of a paper in the January "Woman at Home," and the writer, Mr Matthew Cripps, gives some examples of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrow Guage Railways
The members of the Works Committee left Sydney on Monday evening by the express train for Melbourne. The visit is being made in connection with the proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Journey. Old Memories Revived
Mr Edward Thomas writes in the "Daily Mail":— The railway carriage was nearly full of men reading the same newspapers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tunnel Tragedy. London Diamond Merchant. Found Dead on the Midland Railway
A mulltated body found in Corby tunnel, on the Midland Railway, between Kettering and Gretton, late on Tuesday night (January 5) has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clyde Road
" Hermit," who has given in the Dispatch some vivid sketches of his pedestrian travels from the Coast to Braid wood, describes in the Moruya his journey from here to the sea again. A[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dentistry 6,000 Years Old. Fillings, Gold Caps, And, Even Bridge Work Known to Ancients
It will surprise many persons to learn that false teeth, gold caps and fillings, and dental bridges are by no means modern creations. Six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Journey. Old Memories Revived
Mr Edward Thomas writes in the "Daily Mail":—The railway carriage was nearly full of men reading the same newspapers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rieviera Train Robberies. Clever Gang at Work. Travellers Lose Jewels
In conversation to-day with the Commissary of Police at the Gare du Lyon here, concerning the theft of £1280 in cash and jewels of which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Electric Train. Notes About a New Experiment
The suburbs have been served for all lime within the memory of the present generation by a railway service that only optimists have generally been able…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Educated Horse. Victim of Railway Collision
seven post-office clerks and train-hands were killed or burnt to death in a collision which took place on February 22 on the Pennsylvania railroad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Motor Fire-engine
The first petrol motor fire-engine to be put into service in the Metropolis has just reached the London Fire Brigade headquarters. A second engine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ingenious Toys. Aeroplane Games
The manufacture of toy aeroplanes is making great progress in Paris, more especially in the form known as the "Diabolical Bird." The Tuileries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Braidwood Railway. Mr. Kennedy's Report
Colonel Ryrie writes Mr. R. G. Hassall informing him for public information that the report shown to him of Mr. Kennedy, the officer sent by the Minister to inspect the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light Lines of Railway
The Minister for Works informed a press interviewer that he is about to test the policy of having light lines in the submission of the Dorrigo line to the Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Telegraphist on the Royal Train
The fact that the special telegraphic staff conveyed by the Royal Train on the King's Journey fr[?] Victoria to Dover en route to Biarritz on March 6…
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