Tramway Extension
The Public Works Department have decided to call for a report and estimate of the cost in connection with the proposed extension of the Glebe tram line from its present…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
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Tourist Trams
The tourist trams continue to increase in popularity. The experience so far has been to demonstrate the popularity of the La Perouse and Botany route over other routes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loading at Country Stations. Merchants Approach Railway Commissioners
The principal grain merchants and shippers have asked the Railway Commissioners that the loading of wheat at country stations consigned to them might be held in abeyance pending the…
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The reductions in goods rates on the Victorian railways come into operation on February 1. They refer principally to general mileage rates, and apply to goods carried under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Smoker and the Tram-car. to the Editor
Sir,--Several paragraphs have appeared regarding the inconvenience suffered by smokers in not finding accommodation in the smoking compartments of the trams. Many ladies…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor-omnibuses
Motor-omnibuses are being placed on the London streets just as fast as the various companies can produce them. Anyone making a fairly respectable motor-omnibus chassis can, it is said, sell it before it is built. There…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor-cycle Race at Lithgow
The Eskbank Club having replaced the motor-cycle race on their programme for the 26th inst., seven of the Sydney motorists have nominated, and the event will be decided in two heats and a final. The nominations…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motoring. Motor-cycle Championship
The Pioneer Motor-Cycle Club has applied to the league council for permission to run a championship on Monday night at the cycling carnival, limited to club members, the club to provide the prize money…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling
S. Barrow, the New Zealand road rider, has taken up his residence in this State. He will make his first appearance on the track at the Eskbank Club's race meeting on the 26th inst., where he has been allotted 60 yards…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sunday Train Traffic
Comments have been made by a prominent ecclesiastic in Melbourne as to the way in which trains run on Sundays for the convenience of picnickers and travellers generally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Wreck a Train
BLAYNEY, Thursday.--An attempt to wreck a train is reported from Millthorpe. On Tuesday night a valuable steel rope, used at the mill siding for shunting operations at Millthorpe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hand-cart on a Road
Before Mr. F.S. Isaaes S. M., yesterday, at the Central Police Court, Thomas Kennedy, 39, a dealer, was charged with having placed a hand-cart in the carriage was of George-street, and failing to remove…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Struggle in Train. Exciting Experience in an Express
An exciting struggle between a London passenger and a drunken soldier occurred on the London and North-Western evening express from Liverpool to London. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Central Railway Station. to Be Opened Next June. Old Station to Be Demolished
The works at the new Central Railway Station are progressing so satisfactorily that it is expected that there will be no difficulty in arranging for the place to be opened in June…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baby Born on Motor Car
The New Baby now "arrives" by motor omnibus! About half-past nine at night, as a Vanguard 'bus was speeding along Marylebone-road, London, a lady Inside passenger felt a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling Carnival. Scratch Races To-morrow Night
The Summer Wheel Race Cyelig Carnival, now curent on the Sydney Cricket Ground, will be advanced another stage to-morrow night, when Water Rutt, Henri Mayer George Farley O.Brook, W.E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glebe Point Tramway
The attention of the Minister for Works (Mr. Lee) was recently drawn by Mr. Hogue, M.L.A. to the sirability of the extending the Giebe Point tramway from Leieclrhuardt-street towards the edge of the harbout…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tocumwal Railway. Victorian Border Station. Effect on This State. Goulburn
While at Tocumwal recently Bishop Gallagher saw Mr. Bent, the Victorian Premier, Who was paying a visit to inquire into the best site for a railway station on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tramway Amateur Fishing Club
At the Glebe Town Hall an enjoyable evening was spent last night, when the Tramway Amateur Fishing Club gave a dinner. Mr. Russ Brown occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Tragedy. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE
To-day at the Coroner's inquest on the decapitated body found on the railway line on Christmas morning, and identified as that of Franz Nadert, an Austrian, formerly a…
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