Motoring. To-day's Fixtures
Automobile Club of Australia. -- Finish of two-days' reliability contest. Motor Boat Club of New South Wales. -- Two handicaps at anniversary regatta…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1907
8,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 250
The Proposed Hillston Railway. to the Editor
Sir, -- We have advocated a line of railway to Hillston for some 25 years, and have been always met with the much-hackneyed and oft-repeated question, "Will it pay?" The course…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railways. Northern Line Disabilities. " Don't Take No for an Answer."
A m[?]aging of the Joint Committee, Strethfield to Horn by the was held in the School of Arts. Beecroft, on Monday night. The president (Mr. W. Chorley…
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An elderly man named William Clark, accompanied by his son, entered a Parramatta train at the Central Railway Station yesterday afternoon, but had hardly…
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It is becoming plain that special inborn ability has very little to do with the success of the majority of successful people. Perseverance in the art of getting there is the…
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Thomas McLaughlin, who is at present on a visit to Sydney from Megalong, near Katoomba, has reported to the police that he was garroted at the railway station on Wednesday night and robbed of…
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For Chief Railway Commissioner, the Government of New South Wales has chosen Mr. C. [?] Dent, general manager of the Great Southern and Western Railway, Ireland, to which position he…
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I would like to know what the Railway Commissioners are keeping the hill on the north side of the station for? It is quite a blank to new Castlereagh-st. If…
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A truck of gunpowder exploded at Sindford, Indi[?] 17.8. A passenger train and a siding were wrecked and the debris set on fire. Nineteen perished, some being cremated. Thirty…
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A terrible fatality occurred at the railway yards this morning. A young, man named Milne Smith, employed as cleaner in the loc[?] department, was run over by…
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Ratepayers and residents of Vaucluse are apprehensive that the proposal to extend the South Head Tramway by taking it through Gap Park will, if carried out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tram System. Inconvenience and Loss of Revenue. a Change Necessary
For years we have been pointing out the uncommercial methods pursued by the Tramway authorities in respect of the collection of fares; nevertheless the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Commissioners Who Will be Leader? Mr. Kirkcaldie One of the Three
Speculation has been rife for a considerable time past concerning the personnel of the Railway Commissioners to be appointed under the Act of last session. There have…
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A man named William Clark, who was accompanied by his grandson, a little boy three years of age, was on his way to Parramatta about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon,…
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The Automobile Club of Australia's reliability contest, from Parramatta to Bathurst and back, was concluded yesterday. The total distance was 223 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For Business Men Finance, Commerce, Shipping, and Mining American Railways Phenomenal Earnings the Steel Trust and Wages
Phenomenal are the figures just made public by the Inter-State Commerce Commission showing the earnings of the railways for the year ended June 30, 1906 (says a New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Train Service. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I wish to draw attention to the very bad management in the running of the Brisbane mail train. For some time past the accommodation on this train has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Car Contest. the Return From Bathurst
Mr. A. J. Knowles was the first to arrive in Parramatta. He left Bathurst at 8.40 a.m., and reached Parramatta at 3min and 13sec past 1. His driving time was 3 hours 59min 13sec…
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One of the surprises in the Automobile Club's Reliability Contest, was the even running of John Lawler's 2-cylinder horizontal engine chaindriven Wolseley car of 12-horse power, with a…
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About 2 o'clock on Saturday, a man, "William Clark, 60, was on his way to Parramatta, with his grandson, a boy 3 years old. At the Central Railway Station he entered a…
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