Was It Hallucination ? A Leap from a Train
MEMORIES of Valentine Baker and others, are revived by the sensational leap of Miss Name Brown aged 19, from the Hobart Maunceston mail train on Monday night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
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Tramway Arrangements. for Anniversary Day
THE tramway arrangements for Anniversary Day, the 27th instant, have been issued by the Railway Commissioners, and it is observed that special trams are provided on all lines in…
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The Railway Commissioners were interviewed last Monday by a deputation consisting of Messrs Willis, Waddell, Hassall, Perry, Crick, Carroll, Collins, Millen, Price, and…
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From an early hour this morning the trams were well filled. Suburban residents could be seen making their way towards the metropolis, when they branched off in various directions…
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That the inducements held out by the Railway Commissioners during the holiday season are appreciated was shown by the large numbers of people who congregated at the Redfern Station…
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The rain came down so Steadily on Saturday, and the sky yesterday was be overcast, promising mote rain, that those who are in the habit of journeying abroad on pleasure bent on…
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QUIRINDI, Saturday.--Oil Thursday evening a man named Wm. Potter, a ganger employed at the railway, Werris Creek, was run over by the evening…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Royal Park railway station was broken into on Saturday night, and the safe taken away to the back of the Zoological Gardens, where…
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The fact that a contract has been taken for the construction of a light line from Jerilderie to Berrigan at something less than £1000 a mile is a…
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The feature of the railway traffic yesterday was the great increase in the number of visitors to the National Park. Last year 11,5SS passengers travelled on the illawarra…
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WHILE a salvage van belonging to the Paddington Fire Brigade was proceeding down Oxford-street last evening the horses swerved, and the pole of the van entered one of the compartments…
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As was anticipated the train traffic was very heavy, although the trams to the races were not as well filled as usual. There were 127 cars running between Bent-street and the Cricket…
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The revenue derived by the Railway Commissioners yesterday in connection with the holiday traffic shows a marked increase over Anniversary Day 1895. During the day 55,290 passengers…
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The tramway traffic yesterday was very heavy. There were 127 cars running between Bent-street and the cricket ground, and from 5.30 to 6.10 p.m. no less than 17,000 individuals were removed, an…
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Sir,--"Outis" wrote a very pertinent par the other day anent the habit ladies have of invading the smoking compartments on the railway cars. A little while ago, in…
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While tearing along Oxford-street yes- terday afternoon a Paddington tram was violently impaled by a salvage van. The van belonged to the local fire brigade…
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Mr. Millen, M.L.A., waited upon the Colonial Secretary this morning with a request that if the extreme heat at present; being experienced at Bourke continues…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At the half-yearly meeting of the Melbourne Trawmay and Omnibus Company to-day, a dividend of 2½ per cent, was declared for the six months…
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With reference to the railway line from Jerilderie to Berrigan, we understand that the contract to construct this railway is practically for the formation and laying…
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