Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Railways, roads & transport, all years

Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

8,077 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

The Railway to Mirrool

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

In connection with the extension of the railway from Barellan, the N.S.W. Public Works Department expects to have the rails laid as far as Griffith, the township…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Railway Projects Queensland's Construction List. Unfinished Lines. Queensland Minister's List

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The Minister for Railways slates that on June 30, provided no delay takes place with rail supplies, the only agriculture lines remaining under construction will be…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Palmwoods Tramway

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The official opening of the Palmwoods Burderim Mountain (Q.) tramway, which was to have taken place on 27th inst., has been postponed for some months, because…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mountain Railway Lines. The Wallerawang Deviation

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

A Lithgow message stales that the Wallernwang deviation gang has been busy spreading ballast, and connecting the second track recently laid down east of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

An Idle Railway. The Muswellbrook-Merriwa Line

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The construction of Muswullbrook-Merriwa railway line is practically at a standstill. A Hale work is still being done on the section from Muswellbrook to Denman…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Port Moresby Copper Pr[?]posed Railway Delayed

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The fact that the Government did not intend to continue the building of the railway from Port Moresby (Papue) to the copper mine, eighteen or twenty miles…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Aerial Raiders The Attack Upon Britain Motor Car Guides the Invaders. Alarm Upon the East Coast

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 1

Since the Zeppelin raid on Yarmouth and other Nortolk towns on Tuesday there have been numerous scare reports of prowling airships on the east coast of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Patriotic Funds a Motor Transport Call This Week's Big Appeal for the Belgians

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

The proverb that "He gives twice that gives quickly" has special application at the present time to the Belgian Fund. By a generous action the N.S.W. State…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Motor Lorries Wanted. For the British Red Cross Society

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

The appeal of the British Red Cross Society to the New South Wales division for motor lorries, for use at the front, has been taken up wholeheartedly by the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Motor Car Destroyed. Bursts Suddenly Into Flames

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

A motor car belonging to Mrs. Fowler, of Sans Scou[?] (Sydney), was destroyed in a remarkable manner on Thursday. The car, which was a valuable one, worth…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Other Tram. Caused a Blacksmith's Death

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

Herbert George Hunichen, a blacksmith's striker, twenty-eight years of age, slighted on the wrong side from a tram near the railway station, Sydney, and was…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Suspicious Motor Car. Challenge Unheeded

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 2

Shortly after 8 o'clock on Thursday night a motor-car containing four persons was challenged by a military patrol in a Sydney suburb. As the motor did…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

RETRENCHMENT Drastic Railway Changes a Shrinkage of Revenues Responsible

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 3

The N.S.W. Railway Commissioners have caused considerable perturbation throughout the State by the announcement that a considerable reduction in the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Motor Cycles for Farmers. Time and Money Savers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 7

It is sale to say that the motor cycle is destined to play an important pan in the agricultural development of Australia, Until a few your ago the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Sudden Death Tragedies of the Railway Drownings in the River and the Surf

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

Alfred Guest was bathing at the beach at Thirroul (Sydney), on Saturday with others, and had not been long in the water when he was caught in the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Motor Accidents. Victims Old and Young

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

Kate Maddocks, need sixty years, on the night of the 9th inst., while crossing George-street, Sydney, stepped in front of a moving motor-car, and sustained…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Railway Guard Killed. a Fly Shunting Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

Ronald Fagan, a guard in the employ of the Queensland Railway Department, was killed about noon on Friday at Normanby, near Brisbane. He was engaged…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

N.Z. Railway Disaster. Three Maoris Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

A telegram from Taumarunui (N.Z.) states that an accident occurred on the Tariongamutu Timber Company's line to a train that runs from Taringgamutu to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

who owns the Railways and What are They For?

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 4

The decision of the Railway Commissioners to cut down the train services in the country is running a great deal…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Legal Profession Motor Ambulance Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1915 · page 8

Messrs. John Williamson and Sons beg to acknowledge receipt of the following subscriptions:- Amount previously acknowledged, £404/19/6/; F. C. Boys (Bombala), 10/6; J. J. Mulligan, £3/2/; R. H…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →