Memory Lost. Through Railway Disaster. London, Jan. 10
Mr. Ward, one of the passengers by the express which was wrecked at Hawes, Yorkshire, on Christmas Eve, lost his memory, and stayed at an obscure hotel in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
12,561 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250
Motor Boating
The annual ocean race of the Motor Boat Club of New South Wales, which was set down for next Saturday (January 14), has been abandoned for lack of sufficient entries. This event muy be revived Later in the…
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The Lily Club has a one-mile track race down for the union's "club" carnival on January 21. Entries close tomorrow (Thursday) night with Mr. G. Martindale, Wilton-street, Surry Hills…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Collision. Narrow Escape of Sydney Express. Collides with Stationary Engine. Passengers Thrown From Beds. Wagga
The Sydney to Melbourne express narrowly escaped being wrecked in a collision with a stationary goods engine at Bethungra this morning. For a moment the fate of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Cyclists' Corps
In connection with Mr. L. J. Astley's suggestion to the Defence Department, published in Monday's "S. M. Herald," that a corps of motor cyclists be formed, it is stated by an…
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The following are the world's cycling records for the year ended December 31, 1910:—1/4m f.s., unp., W. J. Bailey, Herne Hill (1909), 25 1-5s; 1/2m f.s., unp., W. J. Bailey, Stadium (1908)…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →Pastoral the Outlook. Opening Up New Areas. Progressive Railway Schemes
The men who raise cattle and sheep look to the present year to bring them another spell of prosperity such as they have experienced during the past eight years. If they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country Flour Mills Railway Rebates Sought
Messrs. H. Crago (Bathurst), Rossell (Millthorpe), Back (representing Dalton Bros., of Orange), and Tremain (of Tremain Bros., Bathurst) waited as a deputation upon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tram Troubadours. George Burrell. King and Elizabeth Streets
By George, but here we are again; Hi, see bold Burrell at his post, He only smiles on pay-days, when Down at the office "walks the ghost."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cremorne Ferry and Tram. Lower Fares Demanded
The suggestions that the ferry fares on the single journey between Circular Quay and the wharf to be built at the terminus of the Cremorne tramway, and also that the tram…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram and Cab Collision. the Pitt-street Fatality. Inquest on William Wright
The inquest into the death of William Wight, a middle-aged cab proprietor and driver, which took place in Sydney Hospital on December 22 last, from injuries received…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Sydney Tramways. the Extension of the Sections Asked For
A deputation representing the North Sydney Municipal Council and the Crow's Nest Progress Association, introduced by Mr. Fell, M.L.A., waited, on the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor-car Fatality
The motor car accident which occurred in IPawarra-road, Sutherland, on New Year's Day, and as a result of which Henry M'Pher son, a 7-year-old schoolboy, living in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rival Railway Routes. Linking the Main and the North Shore Lines
Lane Cove and Chatswood Councils are each fathering rival proposals for a short railway to link up the main northern line and the Milson's Point line. Chatswood wants the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Men's Grievances. Overcrowding and Riding on Footboards, the Chief Commissioner Sympathetic
Representatives of the Government Tramway Employees' Union yesterday waited on the Chief Commissioner to again impress upon him the necessity for action in respect of…
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For refusing to pay the legal fare on a Pitt-street train inst Wednesday J. M. Martin was at the Central Police Court to-day, fined 25s and 6s costs, or 14 days' gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Queensland Seventeen Inches at Ayr. Railway Traffic Stopped. Burdekin Rising Rapidly
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The Commissioner of Police has received advice that 17 Inches of rain have fallen at Ayr. It is still raining, and the Burdekin River is rising rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motoring. Ocean Race Abandoned
The Motor Boat Club had an ocean race from Rose Bay to Botany and back listed for Saturday next, but the event did not attract any entries, and has, in consequence, been abandoned. The majority of the members…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Amateurism and the Wagga Motor Carnival
To the Editor.--Sir,--In reference to the statement, published in your issue of last Wednesday, regarding the Wagga motor cycle carnival not having been run under the Union, it is most deplorable that so many…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →To Open Up Western Agricultural Lands. Tullamore to Tottenham Railway
The Parliamentary Public Works Committee met on January 6 to consider the expediency o£ constructing a line of railway from Tullamore to Tottenham…
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