Conversion of the Tramways
The Adelaide and Suburban, Adelaide. Unley, and Mitcham, and the Adelaide and Hindmarsh Tramway Companies have agreed to extend the option of purchase on the original terms with Mr. F. H. Snow…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1903
6,762 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250
Molesting Chinese. Throwing Stones From Trams
"Observer", writes:--"The tragedy at Alexandria, in which a Chinese is alleged to have stabbed and killed a boy, brings to mind what I have often seen on the Botany-road,…
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For wilfully trespassing upon the goods yard at the Sydney Railway Station yesterday Frank Werry, aged 18, confectioner, brought before the Central Police Court…
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At the Water Summons Court, Reginald Percy Empson was fined 10s and 6s 6d costs, for driving a motor car faster than eight miles an hour through the city…
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Minnie Harris (14) and Julia Smith (13) were charged at the Water Police Court with having on the 24th inst. stolen several bundles of tram tickets, valued at £10 12s, the property of the New South Wales Government…
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At about 6 o'clock yesterday morning the driver of a train discovered the body of a man lying beside the railway line near Hornsby Junction station. There were no injuries apparent beyond a few bruises on the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Round About London. the Marconi System and the Pacific Cable. How Sydney and London Fell Behind in Tramways
LONDON, December 26.--At 27 years of ago the young Irish-Italian Marconi has achieved a feat which scientifically and commercially is of equal importance to any invention or discovery…
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On Thursday we brought forward a catalogue of 6,026 bales, the largest by several hundred bales so far submitted during the season, and representative of the whole of New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Bridge Wanted at Bexley
Some 18 months age Mr. O'Sullivan was induced to visit Bexley with the object of seeing for himself the necessity of a work which the aldermen of that borough had for some time been improving upon him as one of…
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LONDON, January 29.—The killed and injured in the terrible railway collision at Graceland. New Jersey, number 112. A railway collision occurred at Tucson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatalities and Accidents. Fall From a Tram
William Griffiths, 26, living at Horbert-sbreet, Paddington, fell from a tram near the fire station, in Oxford-street last night, sustaining severe injuries to thehead. He was picked up in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Collisions. in the United States. Disaster at Graceland. Heavy Loss of Life. the Wreckage on Fire. London, Jan. 28
The Baltimore-Ohio express; when travelling at a speed of 65 miles an hour, came into collision with a local train at Graceland, New Jersey…
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Speaking yesterday with respect to the announcement made in these columns of the intention of the Government to utilise, asspeedily as possible, the platforms at the now Central railway station and not…
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The fillip given to British commercial enterprise by the introduction of serious American competition in matters which were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General News. the New Railway Station. State Parliament Prorogued
As the State Parliament stood prorogued until February 3, a proclamation was issued yesterday further proroguing it until Tuesday, March 17. Hon. members have not yet been informed Reference was made by the State Premier yesterday to the Government proposals in connection with the new railway station. Sir John See said:--"We intend to expedite the work of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transcontinental Railway
In West Australia, Mr. Reid and Sir William Lyne have been outvying each other in the matter of enthusiasm over the transcontinental railway. A great deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Station Fiasco
A well-known story tells how Lord Melbourne, when Prime Minister, put the question to his colleagues, after an important decision in Cabinet:--"Now, will this duty on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Disasters. in the United States. Terrible Loss of Life. Three Serious Collisions. Wrecked Trains Become Ignited
LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--While the Baltimore-Ohio express was travelling at a speed of 65 miles an hour, it came into collision with a local train from Graceland,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train-to-train Signals. New Electric and Automatic Railway Block System
An entirely new system of railway signalling, said to be an improvement on the new system of pneumatic signalling, was to be triad experimentally on the Great Central Railway (England)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Convenient Road
A petition is being numerously signed for the opening of a road from the Windsor road to Wentworthville railway station. The road goes past the properties of Messrs. Docker, Brien,…
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