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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1910

175 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 9

Railways and Stock

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 2

IT is common experience that if two men interested in stock get into conversation it will not be long before they are abusing…

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One Thousand Motor-cars in Bombay

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 3

It is of great interest to study the meeting of East aud West in the glad adoption by India of all the conveniences of life incidental to the…

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The condition of the Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 2

THE spell of wet weather which we have patted through, though of brief duration as regards the heavier portion of the fall, has left our roads in a very mucky condition. Although they have greatly…

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Attempted Train Wrecking. KATOOMBA

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 5

An attempt at a double train derailment occurred on Sunday night. The train leaving Mount Victoria at 7 o'clock, due at Katoomba at 7.25, with a P class engine, number 694…

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Killed by a Train

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 1

A SHOCKING fatality occurred at Lithgow on Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning. The body of a girl named Mary…

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Motor Car Services

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 March 1910 · page 2

ANOTHER motor car service [?]esidess that of Mr. Batchers' is to be put on the Braidwood-Tarago line for the passenger trade. Mr. Tot. Pooley arrived in Braidwood on Tuesday last [?]ining up…

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Shrieks From a Railway Carriage

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 March 1910 · page 3

A young lady who is often seen on Birmingham concert platforms had a singular and amusing experience when returning with a friend from…

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Adventure in a Motor-car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 March 1910 · page 3

Misfortunes may have their humorous side, as the following anecdote fully testifies. Mr. Beerbohm Tree, always a keen motorist, was on one…

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New Motor cars

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 March 1910 · page 2

In addition to Messrs. Pooley and Malone's new motor car which is to be used in the passenger trade between Braidwood and Tarago, and if required, no doubt, going on to Goulburn, Dr…

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A Creat Canadian Bridge

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 1

It will probably take four years to complete the New Quebec Bridge, work on the superstructure of which will not be commenced until the latter part of…

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Run Over by a Train. Young Woman Out to Pieces

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-A fatal railway accident occurred at Cardiff this morning, by which a young woman named Mary Johnson, 24, was cat to pieces. It appears that the…

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To the Pyramids by Electric Railway

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 2

Our illustration shows Cairo's fashionable promenade. "The bourne of every tourist in Egypt is the Sphinx and the three Phyramids of Gizch, now…

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Coming Half-sized Motor-car Engine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 2

The gas turbine corresponding to the gas engine has been the subject of constant experiment, and though still crude in its development may shortly…

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Mile Posts on the Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 2

THE Engineer for the Shire Council, we entice has and the mile posts on some of the roads[?] and the fingers marking the distances b[?] doubt it is intended to write the [?]…

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Thousand Mile Aeroplane. Trip in Ten Hours

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 1

The Wright suit -- based on alleged infringements of patents -- of which the first results have just been announced in their favour, may result in the…

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A Railway Above the Clouds

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 1

The most wonderful railway in the world is just about completed. It is the first line to be carried across the continent…

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Rabbits on Roads

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 2

The public roads everywhere form great breeding grounds for the rabbits. They barrow under culverts, about bridges, and the banks of creeks, and from these positions…

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Awful Railway Smash

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 April 1910 · page 2

A TELEGRAM just received at New York, from Spokane, Washington, reports that an awful railway smash occurred at Hangman's Creek, on…

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Railway Charges

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 2

THE excessive charges which the Railway make on parcels are exacted avowedly to make up the revenue so that the service will produce a sufficient sum to pay the interest on the cost of…

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Original Correspondence. Duplication of Railways. to the Editor of the Dispatch

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 April 1910 · page 2

SIR,-In the recent State by elections two seals in which the farmers' vote predominates have been last and producers have been charged with apathy in allowing that to happen ; but there is another…

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