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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The above club held its annual meeting at the rooms, Thursday, February 10. Mr. W. H. Pritebard occupied the chair. The club had a successful year, and showed a satisfactory balance-sheet. The following officers…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Our cables state that the half of the shares in the ahove company reserved for British investors has been oversubscribed, and we learn locally that a goodly number of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Judging from the remarks of the Minister for Railways and the Chief Commissioner, a new conception must be formed of the duty of the railway service. It will be remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire broke out this morning in Sheldon's bakery, Wilson-street, east of the railway line. The gates across the line being locked, the fire brigade had to make a long detour…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, can claim the honour of having supplied America with its first railway locomotive. Early in 1828 the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company sent an…
Continued on Trove, page 58 →DURING the past month there has been an extraordinary succession of railway accidents. Fortunately there has not been heavy loss of life. The most distressing accident was at Beaufort, Victoria. A goods train bolted, and, to avoid a collision, was turned by the signalman into a dead-end. Driver Coward, of the first engine, and Fireman Russell, of the second engine, were killed. Coward was found clinging to the driving wheel, and Russell to the brake lever. Driver Groon, of the first engine, and Fireman Gillard, of the second, were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →"Critic" from the Wilds of Rushcatters splashes some ink:—"The election of officers for our Social Club passed off without any bloodshed, although it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The general secretary for the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association has further dealt with the claims of the tram electrical staff for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. S. Carglll, on behalf of the Railway Commissioners, appeared before Judge Heydon in the Industrial Court to-day and stated that there was a vacancy on' Nos. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →None of the work done, at Randwick yesterday was calculated to make the time-takers gape, although many horses were out. On the "magpie" grass track the docked gallops were: -- Elegy, five furlongs, 1min…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →COFF'S HARBOR JETTY, Wednesday. -- The committee of inquiry of the local railway league has unanimously recommended to the league, that the Bonville route from the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- H. B. James and Syd. Day, whose recent attempt to break the motor record from Sydney to Melbourne was unsuccessful owing to trouble with the radiator of the car, near Albury, are now…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The annual race meeting of the Motor-cycle Club of New South Wales is to be held to-night at the Sports Ground. The programme is composed of championships for each class of motor-cycles, and an attempt by Percy Mutton,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →That the overland motor trip front Sydney to Melbourne la not as easy as the recent times of Messrs. Whits and Day and James moke it look was brought home to three well-known Sydney jockeys, in W. H…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →An application was made in the Industrial Court yesterday by the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association for the appointment of a Wages Board…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation representing residents of Coolamon and Ganmain; on the railway from Junee to Narrandera, accompanied by members of Parliament and Sydney produce merchants, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Further consideration was given by the Public Works Committee on February 9 to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Muswellbrook to Merriwa…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →A railway smash occurred at the Sydney Railway Station, on February 9, with the result that an upholsterer, a railway employee, was seriously injured. and a guard's van and a…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Word was received in Ballarat to-night that another railway smash had been narrowly averted at Beaufort. A mixed train left Stawell for Ballarat at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the history of a young country it is easy to pick out its great, men. In the first half of our history our destiny was served by such men as Wentworth, M'Encroe, and…
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