Did Not Find Ticket Quickly. Railway Traveller Fined
Inspector Anderson, of the Railway Department, proceeded against John Lidbury at the Newtown Summons Court to-day on a charge of impeding a railway official…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1915
8,077 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250
Blasting Accident. Tramway Depot Damaged. Narrow Escapes
While blasting operations were being carried on in the vicinity of the Tempe tramway depot this morning, one of the charges caused a great upheaval of earth and rock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Smooth the Tram Rails
The Tramway Department has purchased a rail-planer, an unwieldy-looking, but serviceable, machine, which is used to treat the surface of the tram lines. Troubles on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kit-bag of Diamonds. Wealth on a Tram Car. Owner's Wonderful Luck
Mr. Hyman Barron is the luckiest man in Sydney to-day. He absent-mindedly left a kit bag containing diamond jewellery valued at nearly £1200 in a Bondi-bound tram…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Produce on Railways
The Railway Department has come to the conclusion that very little care is being exercised at country stations in the receipt and despatch of chaff and similar traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor and Allied Trades
Amount previously acknowledged, £106010; Messrs. Turner Bros., Hay Street, £30, and staff of Turner Bros., Hay Street, £31 (for Belgian Fund). Total. £100311…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Lorries
The executive committee of the Red Cross Society is deeply grateful for the wonderful response which it has received to its appeal for motor lorries. On Monday, the 18th inst., a cable was sent to the British Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Reduced Railway Service
The Railway Department announces that arrangements hare been made for a reduced rain service, whereby a million males per year will be "saved." The correct way of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Toll of the Motor
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The morgue statistics for 1914 show that the motor-car has again been responsible for an alarming number of fatalities in the city and suburbs. During the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Smash. Collision in a Tunnel
Early yesterday morning a collision took place on tho northern lino between an engine, unattached, and a train made up of cattle trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Inquest. Witness Saw Aeroplane
At the inquest on one of the victims in Yarmouth a constable gave evidence that he saw an aircraft, and he was sure it was an aeroplane. It appeared to follow…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Wider Scope for the Aeroplane
Amidst the wealth of nonsense that has appeared about Zeppelins and acroplanes during during the past few weeks, there has now and again been printed something authoritative, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liverpool. Road Race
The Liverpool Bicycle Club will run a two-mile road race to-day over the Cross Roads course. Jardine, Brown and Walcot are on scratch, conceding other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Train Accident
WELLINGTON, N.Z., Friday. -- While a train of open trucks and one passenger car was proceeding from Taringamutu to Waituhi, on the Taringamutu Timber Company's private line,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train Service. Orange
The new time-table will involve Orange in little inconvenience. The mall train from Forbes will reach Orange at 8.55, and leave, at 9.10 p.m., an hour carlier than at present…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Championships. Goulburn
The Mulwaree Shire Council has granted, under the same conditions as last year, the application of the Sydney Bicycle and Motor Cycle Club for sanction to hold road races at Easter, when the [?]0 and 100…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flying at Concord. Young Australian's Good Work. Aeroplane Requires No Assistants
Mr. Delfosse Dadgery gare a successful exhibition of flying before a number of spectators at Flavell's [?]dock, Concord, yesterday afternoon. The display was revelation as to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Collision. Express Train Runs Into Van. Harden
The ordinary express from Sydney ran into a Louvre van standing on the main line at the local station this morning. The van was smashed, and two trucks loaded with lu[?]erne…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Train Services. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Now that alteration and cancellation of trains are to take place on the first of next month. I wish to put the following before your notice. Several long-distance trains are…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Road to Paris. Cannot Be Penetrated. Vancouver
Paris messages say that the Germans, although they are two miles nearer Paris now than they were after their retreat to the River Aisne, from a military viewpoint are…
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