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Railways, roads & transport, 1911

12,561 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Cycling and Motoring. Union Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 12

Racing members of the N.S.W. Cyclists' Union will be well previded for in February, when three important race meetings to be decided on the Sydney Sports Ground. For the annual championship meetings a…

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Workmen's Trams. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

Sir,—With a great flourish of trumpets, we were told that with the new year we should have things better in the way of workmen's trams. Well, Sir, we have certainly had…

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Robbed in a Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

Patrick James Tobin, a young man, was on Monday at the Paddington police Court sentenced to three months' hard labour for stealing a handbag from the person of Ethel Bellmaine on January 20. The bag and…

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Railway Fatality. Engine Falls in Culvert. Driver's Terrible Death. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 8

The ordinary mixed train leaving quorn at 8.45 on Saturday morning for Hergot had reached within a mile of Crach[?] Siding, when the driver (Rowe) noticed danger ahead, but…

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Tramway Employees. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 10

The Silverton Tramway Employees' Association held a special meeting on Sunday, and decided to ask the company's general manager to revert to formel rates as regards…

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An Unpaid Tram Fare. He Relied on a Friend

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 2

The Tramway Department stood to lose a penny on January 19, when Ruben Levin rode from Darlinghurst to Bondi Junction, and neglected to pay his fare…

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To Be Paid Off and Evicted Strikers Who Feared the Plague. Manchurian Railway Men Leave Work. Pekin

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 1

Eight thousand European workmen on the Eastern Chinese railway in Manchuria have struck work owing to their fears of contracting plague…

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Railway Sawmillers. Wages Board Hearing

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 3

The second sitting of the Government Railway and Tramway (Sawmillers') Wages Board took place yesterday. The board consisted of Messrs. F. A. A. Russell…

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Tram and Dogcart Collide. Lady Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

Mrs. J. Tlerney, proprietress of the Erskineville Hotel, was driving in a dog-cart last night, when, at the corner of King and Wilson streets, Newtown the vehicle came into…

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Proposed Railways. Public Works Committee's Inquiry

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 5

The Public Works Committee this morning considered the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Parkes to Peak Hill. The estimated cost of the line, which would…

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Tramway Traffic Blocked

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 8

At 11.43 last night a disabled tramcar was being run into the yards at Bridge-street, when it fouled the over- head wires, and stuck fast. It was 20. minutes before the car could be removed and the wires placed in position…

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Motor-'buses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 5

The board appointed to inquire into the advisableness of introducing trackless trams to relieve the suburban tram traffic met at the Town-hall, under tho presidency of the Lord…

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Motoring. Motor Cycling Regains Its Lost Ground

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 10

It is really a most remarkahle fact that the port and pastime of motor cycling--which for a year or two appeared to hang fire in this country--has so rapidly regained its last ground and reached the prominent…

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A New Aeroplane

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 3

Messrs. C. W. Rogers and C. C. Howell, of the Outtrim H. and B. Company, have invented a new aeroplane from which much is expected. The machine will have a total…

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An Australian Aeroplane. Victorian's Invention

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A unique event--the christening of an aeroplane---took place at Outtrim on Friday night. C. W. Rogers, the electrician to the Outtrim H. and B. Company,…

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Friday, January 27. the Row in "The Drunks' Train."

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 1

Robert Bransdon, a young man, of Campsie, appealed against a conviction for selling liquor without a license. The defendant had been fined £30 by the…

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Latest Edition. "Evening News" Office, 5.30 p.m. (A Portion of This Afternoon's New Will Be Found on Page 7 of This Issue.) a Month's Holiday. Railway Men's Desire. "You Cabby Your Death Warrant with You." the Leave Question, and the Two Staffs

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 9

Several matters affecting railway employee were brought under the notice of the Premier this afternoon ny a deputation representing the New South Wales Railway Traffic Association…

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Tramway Passes for Aldermen. Discussion by the City Council

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 8

At the meeting of the City Council in Tuesday night, Alderman Burks moved. "That it be an instruction to the Finance Committee, is preparing estimate for the ensuring year, [?]…

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Railway Decentralisation Evidence Before Royal Commission

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 9

The Royal Commission appointed to consider the question of railway decentralisation held another sitting at the Works Department Sydney. this afternoon Mr. C. N. A Oliver…

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Railway Sawmillers' Grievances. Wages Board Evidence. Case for the Union

Evening News · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 4

The Government Railways and Tramways Glaw Mullers Wages Board met at the Water police Courthouse for the hearing of the claim of the New South Wales Sawmil and Timber…

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