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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1912

210 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 11

Corang Bridge

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

WE are informed that Mr. H. McRae, 'whose ender for £475 was accepted at the last Shire Council meeting for the erection a bridge over the Gorang River, does…

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A Bad Bump. Shunting Accident Excursion Train Collides with Buffers. Many Seriously Injured. London, Tuesday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 6

A sensational railway mishap, in which a number of persons received injuries of a more or less serious nature, occurred to-day at…

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Motor Car Impediments

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

The impediments to motor oar travelling during the wet either we have bad have been very troublesome, and those depending open this mode of locomotion, have bean…

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Aviation School for Royal Military College. Aerodrome to Be Constructed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

The Minister for Defence has approved of the construction of a great aerodrome at the Royal Military College, the site of the new aviation school. This is…

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Market Report. John Bridge & Co., Limited, report:-- Tallow

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 3

Demand was rather quiet and prices at tunes 26 lower. The suspension of auction sales in London during the transport strike caused stocks to accumulate,…

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Russian Royal Train

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 3

The Russian Royal special train is the heaviest and the most luxurious in Europe. When it was constructed, it was devised to stand a charge of…

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Cold-blooded Massacre. Mexican Rebels' Act. Train Load Wiped Out. Robbery and Mutilation. Mexico City (Mexico)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 August 1912 · page 6

A cold-blooded massacre of combination and non-combatants by a body of rebels has been reported to the State Department. The rebels ambushed a train in a canyon…

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Fatal Fall From a Railway Bridge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 August 1912 · page 2

THE following particulars of the fatal accident which befell Mr. Charles Dyball, sen., as briefly referred to in previous issues, are collated from the…

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Motor Accident. Five Persons Injured an Overturned Car

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 August 1912 · page 5

A motor accident occurred in Byron-street, Inverell, on Saturday evening, in which four adults and a baby were injured…

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Goulburn Motor Club

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 August 1912 · page 4

The Goulburn Motor Club's week-end tour to Queanbeyan and Gunning proved most successful (says the "Post."). Seven riders made the trip, and everything was…

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Market Report. John Bridge & Co., Limited, report:--Sheep Skins

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 August 1912 · page 4

We submitted 13,300 skins, our catalogue being the largest which has been offered by any individual broker for some considerable time past. Our…

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Train Robbers' Error. CLEVELAND (Ohio)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 August 1912 · page 2

Three masked men stationed themselves at a siding, and there awaited the arrival of a passenger train, with the intention of robbing the express van…

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The Busiest Railway Station

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 5

According to "Engineering" the busiest railway station in the world is that of the Gare St. Lasare, Paris, for the total number of passengers…

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The Federal Railway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 2

THE surveyor who has been sent up by the State Government, on behalf of the Federal Government to go over the proposed deviation in the route of the line market out by…

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Market Report. John Bridge & Co., Limited, report:--Sheep Skins

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 September 1912 · page 1

There were no fresh developments under this heading, a brisk inquiry prevailing at the best rates of last week. Hides…

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Big Railway Smash

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 September 1912 · page 2

VICTORIA appears to be unfortunate in the matter of railway smashes. An other occurred on Wednesday evening, about half-a-mile from the…

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Railway Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

A collision between an express and another train at the Caledonian Road Station on the Piccadilly Tube resulted in 18 persons being…

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All Over Tram Fares

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

During an encounter between three men who refused to pay their tram fares in Genoa and the police and tram officials, two policemen, a…

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Injured in Railway Smash

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

Up to last night 93 persons had intimated to the Victorian Railway Department that they had been injured in the recent smash…

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Market Report John Bridge & Co., Limited, report:-- Sheep Skins

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 1

Catalogues consisted principally of half to full-woolled lines for which late equivalents were secured under intense competition. Short wools maintained…

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