Youthful Desperadoes. French Tramcar Held Up
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.--Six youths, armed with revolvers and daggers, held up a tramcar and stole the conductor's takings. There followed a sharp fight with officials and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
12,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250
Regulating the Motor Traffic. to the Editor
Sir,--I notice in your paper to-day an article with reference to the regulating of the motor traffic, Betting forth the remarks of Ald. Middleton (Mayor of Mosman), and I would like you to enable me as a motorist to put…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rapid Transit. America's Electric Trains. "Pay As You Enter," and Stepless Tramcars. Mr. Badger's Impressions
Mr Badger, manager of the Brisbane Tramway Company, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Orvieto, and left the same evening for Brisbane by the express. Mr. Badger has been on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Illawarra Railway Delays
Speaking with reference to repeated press complaints of traffic delays on the Illawarra line, the Treasurer stated yesterday that, so far as he was concerned there was no reason for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Houselike Aeroplane
Hardly a month goes by in which the United States Patent Office does not allow a patent on an aeroplane that looks more like a frame house of the summer-resort variety than a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Isolated
As the result of floods in Queensland, last week. two adjacent bridges were washed away, and a train which had just passed over one was isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Money for Roads
The Victorian Government, according to its Minister for Works, intends to give £1,000000, and also to lend £1,000,000, repayable in 31½ years, for road construction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fastest German Train
The fastest long distance train in Germany will be the new vestibule express which the Prussian railway administration intends to run from May 1 next from the Russia frontier to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Train's Narrow Escape
A train from Bankstown to Sydney narrowly escaped being detailed last week through a sleeper lying across the rails. The driver noticed the obstacle in time. He promptly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Sydney's Bad Roads
The shocking condition of the roads in and around North Sydney was exemplified on Thursday, when a milk upset while being driven along one of the main roads. A man…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →"To My Bridge Friends."
The will of Mr. Richard Matthews, late of Wellington-parade, East Melbourne, solicitor, who died on December 18, has been filed for probate. The testator left real estate valued…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Train Accidents in America
According to statistics published at the close of 1912, America has more train accidents and loses more lives in railway accidents than any other country in the world. During 1911 a total…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Across the Sahara. French Aeroplane Route. Paris
An aeroplane route from Biskra, Algeria, across 1425 miles of the Sahara Desert, is being planned by Colonel Etlenne, of the aviation station at Lyons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goods Train Derailed. Bathurst
A goods train was derailed at Barrumba, near the Tarana quarries, on Wednesday, a "J" class engine and half a dozen trucks jumping the line. The permanent way was…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Newcastle. Train Service. Newcastle
On three or four occasions lately suburban residents travelling by the 7.15 p.m. train from Sydney to Newcastle on Sunday have reached Newcastle station too late to catch a…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Topical Taps Sutherland Train Muddles
Observation of the passenger traffic at Sutherland on holidays has shown that the Railway Authorities have so arranged the Railway Time Table as to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cook's River-road. Proposed Extension to Rockdale
The Ministor for Works, Mr. A. Grillith, received a deputation at the Hedfern Town Hall on Thursday lu connection with the proposed extension of Cook's River-road to Carruthers…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Worse Than Bullock Tracks. Road Incident in Waverley
Anent your article, "Worse than Bullock Tracks," in to-night's "Sun," I can quite understand the lorry driver's exclamation, inasmuch as I had a similar experience on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Do Road Plants Pay ? Sherwood's Experience. Considerable Saving Shown
In view of the diversity of opinion as to whether steam road plants are a payable proposition, the following interesting report from Mr. George Howell,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Over the Blue Mountains a Century Ago. Construction of the First Great Western Road by Wm. Cox. III
HENRY KENDALL, in his stirring poem, "The Mountain Pioneers," has fittingly enshrined in verse the exploits of the "men who blazed the…
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