The Tramways
Several propositions have been laid before the Government with regard to the tramways, but up to the present the only proposals placed before them are from a Melbourne…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
8,602 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250
A Prosperous Christmas. Record Tram Receipts. a Substantial Gain
The metropolitan tram receipts for the Christmas and New Year holidays eclipsed all previous records. For Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mails for Southern Railway Towns
Late mails made up in Melbourne for Junee, Goulburn, and other inland towns in New South Wales, are at present detained at Albury until they are sorted. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Railway Accident. Collapse of a Truck. Two Passengers Injured. Melbourne
A railway accident occurred at Kirksstall, near Warrnambool, late last night. A passenger express train, which left Spencer-street about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fell Off a Tram. Tram Conductor Accused. with Assaulting a Passenger
John Austin Vercoe, a tram conductor (23), was charged yesterday morning at the Glebe Police Court, with having assaulted Richard Curton Brown, and occasioning him grievous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Railway Accident. Two Passengers Injured. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE
A truck attached to the Port Fairy express collapsed at Kirkstall at midnight on Wednesday, derailing several carriages. Two passengers were injured, while a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →North Shore and the Trams
Since the inauguration of the all-night trams general, approval of the service has been expressed by the public, and especially by those whose avocations mean late hours. Residents…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Route for Motor 'Bus
The motor omnibus running from Oxford-street to Pott's Point continues lo be well patronised. An endeavor has been made by some of the residents to have the route altered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring Mishap
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Two members of the State Governor's staff. Captains Buchanan and Buxton, and Mr. William Harper, son of Mr. R. Harper, M.H.R., met with a serious mishap…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Nerves
The latest victim to the newest disease:--motor nerves--is said to he the young Duchess of Manchester. The vibration and the chill air against the face when driving in the cold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →North Shore Bridge
The matter of the North Shore Bridge is again coming into prominence. Since we dealt with the subjects a few issues ago the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Afternoon and Bridge Parties
Of all the forms of entertainment, the "afternoon tea" holds pride of place in popular esteem, not because it is the most charming form of entertainment, but because of its…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bridge and the Theatres
Amongst the other enormities attributed to bridge, it is now held responsible for the unprecedented depression in the English provincial theatrical business at the present time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boats. the Motor Boat Club--rules of the Road
A motoring correspondent writes asking if in view of the advance of the motor boat on Sydney Harbour the Motor Boat Club should not introduce a regulation compelling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Snowed-up Train in Germany
Just as we get too much heat about this time in Australia, they get too much cold in Europe. This photograph shows a train snowed up near the Austrian frontier, not far from Gablonz, in Bohemia. This train was unable to move until the thaw set in, which means that it was kept hard and fast for several weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Channel Ferry. London to Paris by Train
Some four years age an illustrated article appeared in the London "Daily Mail," describing the po[?]bilities of the train ferry as a method of reaching France from England…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway and Tramway Matters
Cheap excursion tickets to Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Broken Hill will be issued at Sydney only by train leaving Sydney at 8.50 p.m. on Monday next. The usual monthly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Struggle for Life. Held by the Heels. in Front of a Train
MELBOURNE, Friday.--A terrible story of a desperate struggle for life in the case of a man who was held by the heels in a trap whilst a railway truck was approaching to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Mails Destroyed. Accident to American Mail Train. the Extent of the Loss
The greatest care is always used on mailed trains, especially when large quantities of correspondence are being carried, but occasionally accidents occur, and one which happened to an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Russian Revolt. a Train Wrecked. Bomb-throwing in Poland. Cossacks Join the Caucasian Republic
LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Revolutionists dynamited a bridge on the Vistula railway, as a passenger train was crossing. Four carriages were wrecked, and there…
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