Tourist Trams
The present summer has not proved to be a very suitable one for the tourists' trams, and the new routes started at the beginning of the season have failed to attract much patronage…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
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Electric Trams for Newcastle
Some time ago application was made to the authorities for an extension of the electric system of tramways to Newcastle. At present all the trams there are worked under the old steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General News. Good Railway Business
It is gratifying to learn that, notwithstanding the very substantial reductions in connection with railway rates and changes, the business for the financial year, which commenced on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling. Australasian Amateur Championships. To-night's Racing
The Cyclists' Union will make another attempt to run their already thrice postponed carnival to-night, at the Sydney Sports Ground. Eight heats of Lap Dash were contested on Friday night. when the rain came…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney's Great Problem. the Handling of Its Traffic Congestion Growing Acute, Some Big Projects in Bail- Way Extension. Circling the City with the Iron Road.no. 1
There comes a time in the development of any city of importance when the local authorities, be they Parliamentary or civic, find themselves confronted with great problems of transit. Such…
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LAUNCESTON, Monday.--A married woman, Catherine Agnes Kernon, 30, who was being brought by train from Scottsdale to the hospital, suffering from typhoid, died in the train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Vivid Dreamer. Tries to Jump From Train. Mudgee
A sensational incident occurred on the Wallorawang-Mudgee line last night. All was peace and quiet in one of the first-class carriages till suddenly a young man, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trades and Labour. Railway and Tramway Employees
The grand council of the Railway and Tramway Unions, including the Loco. Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association, and the Railway Traffic Employees' Union, held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crookwell—cowra Railway
The Minister was waited upon last week by a deputaion urging that an officer he sent to report on the route of a proposed line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cowra to Gregra Railway
The proposal to construct a line ot railway from Cowra, via Canowindra, to Gregra, is now under consideration by the Public Works Committee. With the proposal an alternative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dulwich Hill-ashfield Tramway
The Public Works Committee yesterday gaqve further consideration to the proposal to construct a line of tramway from the Dulwich Hill tramway terminus to Ashfield. Mr. W. [?]chinson, chief enginner for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cycling and Motoring. Cycling Carnival. Again Postponed
The New Smith Wales Cyclist's carnival, which was down for decision at the Sydney Sports Ground last evening, was again postponed owing to the inclemency of the weather. The promoters of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Labour in America. Railway Reductions Probabie. to Prevent Strikes. London, Feb. 24
Mr. G. W. Smalley, New York correspondent of "The Times," writes that President Roosevelt has again stirred the country by his letter requesting the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →West Manchurian Railway. Representation by Britain. London, Feb. 24
According to the "Daily Mail," Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is making friendly representations to Japan regarding the railway vetoed by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident in Railway Yards
Thomas Clancy, a railway labourer, living in Crown-street, Surry Hills, was assisting to move an iron plate, weighing about a ton, at the Eveleigh yards yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sport and Pastime Among the Amateurs Motoring Boats
A smoke concert will be held at the Motor Boat Club rooms to-night, Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. have been appointed agents in the South Sea Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Employee Injured Goulburn
James Lean, sen., met with a severe accident at the Goulburn railway workshops this morning. He was working a steam hammer, when a piece of iron flew out, causing a gash…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoppage in Tram Service
At 12.25 p.m. yesterday the electric current which provides the power for the George-street trams failed, and all the cars remained at a standstill for about six minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New Tramline Proposed
The Erskineville Council wrote to the Glebe Council on January 15, asking the co-operation of that council in a deputation to the Minister for Works, to urge upon him the necessity for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Boating. Motor Boat Club of N.s.w
To-night, at their club rooms, in Pitt-street, the Motor Boat Club will hold a smoke concert. The secretary (Mr. J. B. Holdsworth) and his committee have arranged a good programme for the occasion, and a large…
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