Tramway Experiments. to the Editor
Sir, -- Will you permit me, through your columns, to draw the attention of the Railway Commissioners to the fact that (unintentionally, of course) they are inflicting much annoyance,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1905
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Railway Traffic Suspended. Further Strikes Expected. Military Fail As Stokers
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- All traffic on the Vienna-Warsaw railway has been suspended. The attempt to utilise the military as stokers was abandoned after four…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unrest in Russia. Anarchy in the South. Steamers Cease to Call at Batoum. Pot[?] Bombarded by Warships. Tartars Let Loose in Baku. Railway Services Interrupted
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- Owing to the state of anarchy existing at Batoum, an important Russian port on the Black Sea, the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Fatality at Hamilton
At about 9 o'clock yesterday morning a porter named Lance M'Lean, employed at the Hamilton railway station, was killed by being run over by a light engine and tender. Deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Motor Contest. From Sydney to Melbourne. Arrival at Euroa. an Uneventful Run. Splendid Performance by Stevens
ALBURY, Friday. -- With four exceptions the competitors in the motor ride got away to time this morning. Mrs. Thompson, Holmes, and Maillard were obliged to remain some time…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Russians Attack Railway. Bridge Blown Up at Haicheng. LONDON, Saturday Morning
General Sakharoff reports that he sent a detachment to destroy the railway, and it blew up a bridge at Halcheng, returning almost unintercepted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Card Table Penalising at Bridge
There is nothing so provoking as to be penalised at Bridge, especially when the penalty carries with it some heavy consequential loss. The penalty for the revoke is, of course, out and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Run Over by a Train. Child's Leg Cut Off
A two-year-old child named Andrew Garlick was run over by a train at Helensburgh, on the Southern line, yesterday. The right leg was cut off below the knee, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor-car Contest
Thirty-five motor-cycles and light and heavy cars left Sydney on Tuesday morning on a reliability run to Melbourne. The first day's stage was to Goulburn, 129 miles ; second to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Future of the Motor
One of the features of the motor trial from Sydney to Melbourne was the remarkable interest taken in it by the public from the early hour of starting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Strikes General. London, Saturday Morning
Railway strikes are general at Lodz, Saratoff, and in other districts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Tram Faces." Smiles and Adversity. a Lesson From Life
It is easy to talk about keeping cheerful, and smiling in the face of adversity, but everyone knows how hard it is to do so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strikes. More Men Come Out. LONDON, Saturday, 6.40 a.m
The railway strikes have become general at Lodz, Saratoff, and in other districts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By Order of the Tsar. Railway Workers' Hours Reduced. Employees to Report Their Grievances. London, Saturday, 6.40 a.m
The Tsar has ordered a reduction of the hours of labour at Libau and Romny railway stations and workshops to nine per day. He has directed also that the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor Run. End of the Reliability Test Cars Arrive at Melbourne. Melbourne
The motor reliability contest from Sydney to Melbourne ended to-day. B. James and J. H. Gard tied in the motor cycle class. Ross, Stevens, and Tarrant in the heavy car…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Killed by a Train
It was elicited at the inquest into the death of the infant, Andrew Bernard Garlick, who was run over at the metropolitan railway siding near Helensburgh on Saturday, that a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway and Tramway Appeals
The Railway and Tramway Appeals Board holds weekly meetings to investigate the merits of appeals against punishments infliced on the railway staff. During the last three months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway and Tramway Employees. Hospital and Convalescent Funds
The fifteenth annual meeting of subscribers to the railway and tramway employees' hospital and convalescent funds, held in the Railway Institute on Friday evening, was presided over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Trams. People Who Don't Pay. 4Ooo Last Year
One of the most troublesome and disagreeable features connection with the working of the city trains is that of looking up people who have failed to pay their fares. Of course, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fatality
The Coroner (Mr. C. Hibble) held an inquest yesterday concerning the death of a probationary messenger named Lance M'Lean, son of Guard M'Lean, of [?]slington, who was killed on the previous day through…
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