Railway Prosecution. Expensive Travelling
At the Redfern Police Court yesterday John Petchell was summoned by Inspector Anderson, of the Railway Department, for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
12,789 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250
Reckless Motor Driver
Ernest Drewitt was fined £5, in default one month's gaol, at the Central Police Court, on a charge of committing a breach of the regulations by driving his motor-car past the tram stop at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Workers' Conference. Unions and Politics. Membership 13,300
The annual conference of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Association began at the Trades-hall yesterday. Delegates were present representing 27 branches, with a total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Superannuation
At the last meeting of the Railway Service Superannuation Board 15 officers over 60 years of age and eight officers under 60 years of age were approved for pensions, making 632 to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Capital to Capital. Motor Cycle Test. Fifteen Riders Score Full Points
The outstanding feature of the Melbourne to Sydney motor cycle reliability trial, which finished yesterday afternoon at 5.45, was the performance of E. Tyler, one of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dulwich Hill-wattle-hilll Tramway
At the weekly meeting of the Dulwich-hill to Wattle-hill. Tramway Extension Committee correspondence was read showing that the dare could not yet be fixed for the opening…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--A motor car was wrecked by a train at the Normanby Station crossing. John Young, of Opunake, was killed, and Frederick Butterworth was seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fall From Railway Tricycle
Frank Kelly, a railway porter, stationed at Woy Woy, was riding along the line yesterday afternoon on a tricycle when the machine left the rails. Kelly was thrown off and stunned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Safety of Trams. King-street Smash. "Could Easily Have Been Averted." How Emergency Brakes Act. Result of Official Inquiry
The safety of the travelling public was so seriously involved in the King-Street tram smash on Saturday last that exceptional interest attaches to the official inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Are Four Drowned? Motor Launch Capsize
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--It is believed that four men--Alexander M'Kenzie, Alexander Duncan, Sam Potangaroa (a native), and James Powers (a half-caste)--have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trammen's Trouble Accept Increases Under Protest
ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Tramway Employees' Association has decided upon a course of action in regard to the recent decision of the Adelaide Municipal Trust, concerning the wages…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Aeroplane Smash. London
While undergoing certificate tests at Leipslc yesterday two non-commissioned officers of the German Army fell. Their machine was smashed and the two men seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Flying Cook. Aeroplane Comedy
A little group of naval officers in England watched an aeroplane at Eastchurch with expressions of impatience and despair. The [?]man was flying high and in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Aeroplane's Wing. Nurse's Terrifying Adventure
"I think the aeroplane hooked me up," said Miss Ellen C. Pimlott, a professional nurse, of Wood Cottage, Hipperholme, in telling in the Yorkshire Under-Sheriff's Court, of a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Most Luxurious Train
The Russian Royal special train is the heaviest and most luxurious in Europe. When it was constructed it was devised to stand a charge of dynamite, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Solid Road Team
F. Keefe, the Tasmanian road crack who recently lowered L. Meredith's (Eng.) world's record of 4hr 52min 51 4-5sec for an unpaced cut-and-home "hundred" on the road, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Main Roads Maintenance. Inquiry in England. London
A select committee of the House of Commons, which has been inquiring into the Question of the maintenance" of main roads, has submitted its report…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Knocked Down by Motor. Young Woman Leaves Tram at Wrong Side
At about 10 o'clock on Thursday night Elsie Swyny (24), residing in Weston-road, Rozelle, was knocked down by a a motor car near the Drummoyne Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hit by a Landslide. Train Knocked Over. Laborers Pillaging the Wreck. Portland (Oregon)
A train was passing over the Pacitc Railway Navigation Co.'s line near Modler this morning, when several hundred tons of earth and rocks, which had been dislodged from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Serial Story Dramatic Incidents. Thrilling Plot. All Rights Secured by "The Globe." 'The Great Western Road.' Specially Written for "The Globe" by H. F. WICKHAM
The story opens with a description of the cold fever, which gripped New South Wales in the early days. Everyone was leaving the cities, eager to make a pile, Naturally the country was overrun by numbers of desperate…
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