Cloncurry Railway Line
The Commissioner for Railways has returned from his tour of Northern Queensland. The main purpose of his visit was to inspect the Cloncurry line, communication on which has…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
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Chillagoe Railway
Travellers from Chillagoe state that the company continues pushing on the Etheridge railway in a direct route to the Einasleigh copper mine, and is now erecting buildings…
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Donald Fraser and Thomas Merryweather, two seamen, were charged at the Water Police Court with having deserted from the sailing ship Port Jackson, on the 17th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →85 Miles an Hour New Motoring Records London, Thursday, 3.15 p.m
Some extraordinarily fast motoring was witnessed on the Brooklands track yesterday, when a Napier car established new records for 50, 100, and 150 miles…
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The Acting City Coroner (Mr. Stephen Murphy) held on inquest, at the Coroner's Court yesterday into the death of Frederick Dale, a middle-aged man. lately residing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Proposed Crookwell-cowra Railway
Settlers on the fertile lands that lie between Crookwell and Cowra are desirous of seeing those two points connected by a railway line. The wheat and other grain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Station Larcenies Lady Passengers Victimised Young Man Charged
Towards the end of last month a plainclothes constable of Redfern became suspicious of the actions of a young man named Charles Leslie Fennell, and ultimately…
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An elderly woman, named Mary Butler, who resides in Queen-street, Glebe, was crossing the road in front of her residence, yesterday, when a horse that was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Exasperated Railway Passengers Riot at a Station
Travellers arriving at the Saint Lazare station to-day (says a Paris telegram dated January 10) were perhaps surprised to see the following notice published:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Balmoral Beach by Tram Important Ministerial Statement Plan of Proposed Route to Go Before the Cabinet
It is a long time now since the extension of the North Sydney tramways to Balmoral Bench was advocated by leading residents of Mosman and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Fire Tragedy the Boyertown Calamity 200 Persons Burned or Trampled to Death
An appealing theatre disaster, the worst that has occurred since the [?]ls Theatre fire in Chicago in 1903, when nearly 600 people lost their lives, took place on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. the Union Carnival. Another Postponement
The championship carnival of the N.S.W. cyclists' Union, which was postponed on Wednesday night until last evening, had again to be put off last night owing to the continued wet weather; The meeting will,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newsboys on Tramcars
James Goodsell, a newsboy, was charged, at the Glebe Court, with alighting from a tramcar white in motion. The acrobatic performances of newspaper-sellers on the crowded tramcars in the city have almost led to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Deceptive Trams. to the Editor
Sir,--Perhaps the tram authorities will have the common-sense to clearly indicate on the boards the route of the trams going to Annandale. Since the opening the line via Booth-street, scores of travellers wishing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Proposals. From Crookwell to Cowra
The Minister for Public Works (Mr. C. A. Lee) yesterday received a deputation, introduced by Mr. Nielsen, M.L.A., from the Yass electorate, to ask that an officer be sent to report on a…
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BULAHDELAH, Thursday.--Mr. Surveyor Hargraves has commenced surveying for Mr. Phillips' projected tramline to Myall Forest. The right of 30 miles of line has been granted…
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Edward Bailey pleaded guilty, at the Glebe court, to using grossly indecent language on a tramcar, at Crescent-street, Annandale, on January 25, and also to "interfering with the comfort of a passenger on the…
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A representative deputation from the northern suburbs, including Dr. Arthur, Messrs. Davis Fell, F. M. Clark, and E. W. O'Sullivan, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Iliawarra Train Service
O. B. P. writes:—I should be glad if you would be good enough to give publicity to the fact that for some time past the doors of the box carriages forming portion of the 8.31 a.m…
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At a recent meeting of the Eastwood Progress Association it was decided to ask the joint committee to urge upon the Railway Commissioners the necessity of providing an additional train service between Hornsby…
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