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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1910

175 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 9

Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

Mr. John Gregory Keefe, a railway shunter, aged 31, was killed in the Goulburn railway yards on Friday night through being run over by…

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Sensational Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

Last Friday evening shortly after 8 o'clock the goods train to Queanbeyan when crossing the road at the gatekeeper's on the Captain's Flat…

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Railway Crossing Accident. Two Horses Killed. Coach-driver's Narrow Escape

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

ON Friday evening a little after 8 o'clock the goods train to Queanbeyan when crossing the road at the gatekeeper's on Captain's Flat Road, about…

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On a Brazilian Railway. [?] Birds from Orchids

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 4

Thirty-four miles in three hours as a run for an express train strikes one as queer, but that is the regular schedule between Sao Paulo, Brazil…

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Hutch Railways. After Fifty Years' Struggle They Pay Only About 4 Per Cent

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 4

The railways of Holland seem to have a pretty hardscrabble time of it. Water competition-that of the canals and of the Rhine-has always…

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Illustrated Notes from all over the World Motor-car As Fire-engine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 2

One of the latest developments in connection with the motor-car is quite in the line that might have been expected. The power at disposal is so…

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Railway Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 2

On Friday evening Mr. John Gregory Keefe met his death at the Goulburn being run over by a truck while shunting. The assistant telegraph operator was…

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Railway Accident at Bungendore

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 2

LAST Friday evening shortly after 8 o'clock the goods train to Qneanbeyan when crossing the road at the gatekeeper's on the Captain's Flat Road, about a mile from Bungendore, ran into Mr. W…

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Our Excessive Railway Charges

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 3

The need for reduction in the cost of the railway service to the people is generally admitted. How to secure it is a matter of some difficulty. A…

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Runaway Motorists. Lady Cyclist Left Senseless. Unravelling a Mystery

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 June 1910 · page 4

Mystery surrounds the accident which has occurred to Miss Adlercron, of Park Lodge, Binfleld, near Windsor…

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Illustrated Notes. from all over the World. Putting Mails Into a Train Travelling Fifty Miles an Hour

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 1

Our two sketches give some idea of the process by which the mails are placed in the passing train from the [?]side. They are suspended on an…

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Tramping. the Best Way of Travelling

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 4

To sling a rucksack holding the minimum of necessities over one's shoulders, and walk straight ahead along any road. British or foreign,…

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Aeroplane Accidents

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 2

Lady Abdy paid 130 guineas at auction for the privilege of accompanying Mr. Giaham White in a night at Brooklands, Surry. The…

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French Railway Disaster

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 3

Later details of the terrible railway disaster to the Paris-Granville express on Saturday last near Versailles state that the local train was…

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Train Up a Child,' Etc

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 1

A financier was playing bezique with his son. The son was only ten. A friend was looking on…

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Electioneering on a Motorcar

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 1

Our sketch shows how a 90-horse-power Benz car was badly knocked about at one of the recent elections, The car shown is the property of Mr…

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Scientific Notes. Tube Railway Between Denmark and Sweden

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 1

A definite proposal has been put forward for the construction of a tunnel between Denmark and Sweden, starling at Copenhagen, and…

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Braidwood Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 2

IT is refreshing to notice that all hope of a railway to Braidwood is not abandoned yet. Mr. W. J. Chapman in submitting to auction on Thursday same to on properties predicted that in two years…

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Told by a Railway Guard

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 3

On a London and North Western Railway the down North express thunders past a little wayside station at a speed which is seldom less…

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Crushed by a Motor Car

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 1

Samuel Haas, chauffeur, was killed at East Prahan, Melon Friday. Haas was in charge of a car owned by Mr…

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