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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
10,372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A wheat-laden train from Stawell, drawn by two engines, crashed into a dead end at Beaufort station, 30 miles west of Ballarat, at 2.30 a.m. on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LAUNCESTON, Sunday,--Further details were available to-day concerning the accident to the troop train on Friday afternoon. The first intimation received by the troops…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Within a few hours of the narrow escape from disaster of a wheat train at Trawalla, and within 20 miles of the spot, another wheat train was wrecked at 2.30 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two prominent residents, Messrs. Charles Gillespie and A. A. Kerr, had a marvellous escape from death this afternoon. They were returning in a buggy from the funeral of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An accident to a troop train near Andover on Friday occurred through a truck behind the engine Jumping the line. Succeeding trucks and carriages telescoped, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A mass meeting of South Coast miners--the largest meeting yet held in the South in connection With the strike--took place on Saturday at Russell Vale, near Bellambi. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The pilot engine attached to the western mall train, which arrived at Katoomba at 9.30 on Saturday night, ran off the rails at the home signal, and travelled over 130 yards before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most fertile tracts of country, and, perhaps owing to its splendid isolation, one of the most undeveloped in New South Wales, is the Upper Murray. Comprising some millions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The pilot engine, "D" class, attached to the mail train arriving at 9.30 o'clock last night, ran off the rails at the home signal, and went 133 yards before being pulled up. Had she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During the hearing of a case in the District Court in Dubbo this week, his Honor Judge Gibson remarked on the number of cases of the kind that were before the Courts in this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following are the handicaps for the half-mile track race to be run on the 11th at the Sports Ground:—Leo. Smith, scr: W. Cottrill, 10yds; R. Short, R. Murray, 15; L. Sinclair, R. Seymour, 30; H. Stedman, 35; [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Speaking at Perth (W.A.) on Saturday the Premier of Western Australia (Mr. Moore) said the Government intended to offer the Commonwealth the leasehold revenue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The work of restoring traffic on the damaged portions of the railway is well on towards completion, except for that part between Burren Junction and Collarenebri, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. Mary Calenzi, living in Belmore-road, Randwick, fell from a moving tram yesterday in Cleveland-street, near Bourke-street. Her head struck the blocks, and she sustained a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the meeting of the executive of the Fruitgrowers' Union of New South Wales on Saturday delegates from various unions brought complaints of systematic pillaging of fruit from the railway vans during transit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mrs. Annie Hondway, living in Albion- street, Annandale, was alighting from a tram at George and Harris streets this morning, when she fell, injuring her back…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →KATOOMBA, Saturday.--It is now possible to survey with some possibility of realising the damage tho wreck caused by the serious railway collision which occurred near the eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At a municipal conference held at Hurstville discussion arose in connection with railway, administration, mainly in regard to the Illawarra suburban service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TRAIN DERAILED AT KATOOMBA RAILWAY STATION ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON.; The engine which was of the heaviest "T" class, Jumped the rails as it was entering the station at some speed. The tender of the engine and the front truck of coal telescoped, the truck being thrown into the air, and the front was smashed in by the hack buffers of the engine. The front portion of the truck rammed the after tank of the engine, bursting it. The engine was badly damaged under death. where…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reasonable people are aware that every effect must have its cause, and that an accident in the strictly logical sense is, therefore, an impossibility. But these…
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