New Railway Travelling Predicted
What is to take the place of the steam locomotive was considered by Mr. F. W. Lanchester in a British Association paper. After nearly a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
174 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 9
Railway and Tramway Service Association
On Thursday last in the Industrial Court Mr. Justice Heydon granted registration to the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, subject to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cruel Train Journey
On Sunday forty trucks of cattle reached Wodonga, Victoria, having been entrained at Armidale, New South Wales, on the previous Wednesday. For four…
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A motor smash occurred at the 13-mile peg on the Sydney Road, Bathurst, late on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Rawston of Sydney, and a companion, Mr. M. B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car That Collects Its Own Dust
It is reported that a Manchester engineer has invented an apparatus which, it is claimed, will prevent the clouds of dust raised in dry weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sunday Trams
SOME interesting particulars were contained in the departmental reply to the protest of the Evangelical Council against the running of trams during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Motor Cars
DR. CHRISTIE has just purchased through the local agent, Mr. Carl Baden, a new 35 h.p. Overland Car. These wonderful cars are without a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Collision
A collision occurred between two trains near Adelaide on Saturday night. One car was derailed, and three passengers injured. The accident occurred through the driver of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Disaster
The most terrible accident that has ever been recorded in the annals of the New South Wales railways occurred at Exeter on the main Southern Line, just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Gatekeeper Killed
A Goulburn widow, who acted as gate. keeper at Menton for 24 years, was knocked down by a goods train and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Railway Disaster. Heavy Death Roll. Fourteen Killed. Many Injured
No more terrible accident than that which occurred at Exeter shortly before midnight on Friday has ever darkened the history of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Smash. Temora Mail Wrecked. Fourteen Killed and Many Injured
The railway disaster at Exeter, on the main Southern line, air miles from Moss Vale occurred about twenty minutes before midnight on Friday, and caused the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improvements at the Railway Station
An improvement that will meet with the approval of the travelling public pasting in and out of Goulburn is now being carried out at Goulburn railway station. The booking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Motor-car Tyre
A new tyro has made its appearance, which is a sort of combination of solid and pneumatic. It is not unlike the ordinary tyro for which it can be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Man Loses Leg. Fall Between Moving Carriages
A shocking accident occurred at the Macdonaldtown Railway Station on Wednesday night, when a railway laborer, Patrick Walsh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Gudgenby Road. (To the Editor.)
SIR,—I notice in your issue of the 17th instant, under the healing of Official Correspondence, a report made by the engineer in charge re portion of the main road Tharws…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →270,000 Sheep. Motor Cyclists and Shearers. Fast Work in the Back Country
ON Wednesday afternoon a team of motor cyclists left Mr. W. Johnson's motor garage at Forbes, bound for Queanbeyan. These were the M'Innes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Science Notes. Aeroplane "Lifebuoy."
The question of parachutes for aeroplanes so as to allow of a safe descent continues to occupy the attention of inventors. Numerous experiments are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Party's Experience
Messrs. Austin Chapman, M.H.R., and H. R. Alexander of Yanco, had an exciting experience in the flood on Monday, Leaving Moruya before daylight in a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decapitated by a Train
On Friday night a man named Bailey, accompanied by his wife and infant, while driving home from Hobaart to Broad Marsh, Tasmania, was run into by the…
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