Typhoid at Charleville. Among Railway Workers
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Chief-Inspector Simpson, of the Health Department, left Brisbane to-day for Charleville, where an outbreak of typhoid has occurred amongst the men…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
13,432 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250
To Prevent Railway Collisions
The drawings above illustrate an invention of Mr. T. R. Hays, a railway inspector at Newcastle, which is claimed to prevent two trains from being in the same block section of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring. Automobile Club of Australia
It is extremely probable that the speed-judging competition of the Automobile Club of Australia, arranged for next month, will be held on Saturday, February 10. Two members of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor Cycling. Sydney Club's One Day Trial to Mount Victoria and Back
The Sydney Club obtained a very fine entry for its one-day reliability trial, which is to be held on Anniversary Day, from Sydney to Mount Victoria and back. The trial is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales
A general meeting of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales was held at the Royal Hotel on Monday, Mr. Alick M"Neil occupying the chair. The object of the meeting…
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The next racing for members of the Motor Boat. Club of N.S.W. is to be held on Saturday, February 10, when a general handicap for the Stelling Shield, and a sprint race for boats with…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ruin and Death. the World's Disasters. Terrible Railway Smash. Several High Officials Killed
VANCOUVER, Monday Evening.--A terrible-railway collision occurred to-day between two trains running upon the Illinois Central line, due, it is stated, to extra delay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Brisbane Tram Strike. Men's Places to Be Filled. Rumored Action of the Carter's Union
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Matters are quiet in connection with the tram strike to-day. The Carters' Union has been instructed not to assist the Tramway Company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Norte Sydney Tram Sections
Mr. Arthur Cocks, M.L.A., wrote to the Chief Railway Commissioner, asking for information respecting the reported alteration in the sections of North Shore tramways. The reply he received was to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Accident to a Postmaster. Knocked Down by a Tram
An unfortunate accident occured yesterday afternoon to Mr. Sidney-Smith, the postmaster at the Royal Exchange, who was knocked down by a car whilst attempting to cross over…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tramway Trouble in Brisbane
There has been some trouble lately in connection with the Brisbane tramways as a [?] re suit of the men wearing the union badges [?]o their watch chains. Several of those wearing…
Continued on Trove, page 54 →The Wheat Season. Inadequate Railway Transport Facilities
Farmers in the Barmedman district have finished harvesting. The average yield is not as good as that of last season, being about 10 or 11 bushels to the acre. Some splendid crops…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Driven from Alexandria by Railway Extension
For the purpose of extending the railway goods yards at Alexandria, the Government has resumed an area of about 15½ acres. The resumed area lies between the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →Cycling and Motoring. Motor Boat Club of N.s.w
The suggestion of Mr. Staines, of Melbo for a challenge pennant and trophy in [?] ction with the motor boat speed [?]contcsl been considered by the committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Uniform Railway Gauge
The decision arrived at by the Melbourne Conference of Premiers regarding the standard railway gauge for Australia is of no value except to delay the question. The…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Improving the Western Railway—Glenbrook Deviation Works
The great engineering work in connection with the railway deviation and duplication between Emu Plains and Blaxland, on the main Western railway, is with the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Expansion of Our Railway System—Influence of the North Coast Line
Although at the present rate of progress it is problematical when the North Coast Railway will be finished, there is little doubt that its completion will have a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Railway Expansion
For many years the construction of a railway to the North Coast district was opposed by many persons in authority, who failed to realise the enormous value of the country lying…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A Dead Man at the Wheel. In a Howling Gale a Motor-car is Steered into a 25ft. Deep Stream. Horror of Crowd Waiting Low Tide. Surrounded with Mystery
A man rusted breathlessly in to Wisbech, a small town in the English midlands, early one morning last month with the news that he had been the top of a large headed motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constructing a Simple Model Mono-railway. (Concluded from Last Issue.)
The body of the car is fashioned like a single decker tram car. Two pieces of thin wood 3 inches square are curved in fin each edge on the bottom and from 1¼ln. up the sides as…
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