Australian Defence. Railway Staff Corps
A new military corps is to be raised in Australia. It will be called the Engineer and Raliway Staff Corps, and will form part of the militia forces. The total establishment…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
13,432 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250
Cremorne Tram and Ferry
A meeting of the Cremorne tram and ferry protest committee was held last evening at Mr. M'Kenzie's office. Spit Junction. Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., presided. It was decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Object of Railways "Not Profit-making." Government's Policy to Prevail. Acting Premier's Views
"The main object," declared the Acting Premier (Mr. Beeby) yesterday, "of Stateowned railways is not profit-making, but public convenience and cheap transit."…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Argentine Railway Strike. Buenos Ayres, Jan. 8
The masters accepted, but the railwaymen rejected, the intervention of the Minister of the interior, and a widespread strike has begun for increased pay and shorter time…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Industrial. From Toy to Motor Tyre. Manufacture of Indiarubber. a Growing Australian Industry
He was described as a man with an indiarubber coat on, indiarubber shoes, an indiarubber cap, end in his pocket an indiarubber purse and not a cent in it. This is from the biography of Goodyear, the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Head-to-head Collision. Dreadful Railway Accident. Montreal, Jan. 9
Two Canadian-Pacific railway trains crashed into each other head on at Terrebonne, Quebec, while travelling at full speed. The trains were crowded with passengers,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Increased Railway Revenue
The railway revenue from July 1 to December 31 amounted to £2,661,108, or £305,650 more than for the corresponding period of the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Cremorne Tram and Ferry. Action by the North Sydney Council
The question of the fares charged by the Sydney Ferries Company to residents of Neutral Bay desirous of using the new Cremorne ferry service as a means et relieving the present congestion on the Neutral…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motorist Fined
At the Water Summons Court, on Tuesday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Grant Vardy was fined £1 with (is costs, or in default 14 days' imprisonment, for having driven a motor car at Circular Quay at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cairns-mulgrave Railway. Brisbane
In connection with the scheme to build the great Northern Railway, the Government took over the Cairns-Mulgrave tramway at the end of June last, but did not disturb the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Workers' Conference
The comerence of the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association was brought to a conclusion yesterday, having sat since December 27. The conference considered, amongst other business, the decisions…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Government and the Railways
The State Government, through the Acting Premier, has asserted with sufficient emphasis that there is no intention of going, back to the evil ways of political…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Aluminium Coils in Traction Motors
Considerable interest was shown at the International Congress at Brussels, in a paper, on the subject of using aluminium in place of copper for the field coils of street railway…
Continued on Trove, page 58 →Tram Troubadours. Charlie Bradley
He's slaved within the service long, Aye, close on thirty years: And in our famous gallery This bright day he appears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Railway Men. Threatened Stride of 300,000. San Francisco
Another big strike is threatening among the railway shop employees on the Harriman lines. The men are likely to he called out within…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sulky and Motor Car Collide
A collision between a sulky and a motorcar occurred in Darley-road, Centennial Park, late last night, but no one was injured. Thomas Sinclair, of Ivy-street, Redfern, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Management
"J.G.R." writes:-- "Finding it necessary on Sunday to meet the second division of the Melbourne express, which should arrive at Sydney at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Injustice to Mascot. Tramway Mismanagement
The alderman of the new municipality of Mascot have a grievance. Last Saturday night, when the final of the six-days' biycycle race attracted 55,000 people to the Sydney Cricket Ground, many residents of what was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Governor-general's Car. Collision with Tram. Lady at the Wheel. Melbourne
Some excitement was caused in Swanston-street by a collision between a tram and a motor-car. No. 3 car of the Governor-General, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram Jolts. Short Stops and Quick Starts. the "Behind Time" Trouble
One of the most striking characteristic the Sydney tram system is--Jolts; especia[?] Pitt-street. We have grown so used t[?] bump-with-a-stop and bump-with-a-start…
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