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, 1916

7,678 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 250

Tramway Discontent Proposed Stop- Work Meeting Preparing for Ballot

The Sun · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 5

The result of the resolutions carried by the Tramway Union to take a ballot on the question of holding a stop- work meeting to discuss grievances is that the ballot is now being…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

No Room for Wheat Position at Forbes Railway Forbes

The Sun · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 6

At the meeting of the Forbes Municipal Council last night, Alderman Leo Reymond moved that the railway authorities be written to urging the advisability of making…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Back From the Jaws of Death. a Returned Railway Man

Co-operator · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

Training at McDonaldtown is Corporal Maloney, late from Gallipoli. He was there at the famous landing and after four weeks strenuous…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Railway Refreshment Rooms

Co-operator · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 1

The Railway Commissioners recently decided to take over and manage railway . refreshment rooms a first step towards this end…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Tram Conductor Assaulted

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 9

While handing in his fare-book at the Marickville Junction yesterday, Albert Soccold (38),a tram conductor, living in Petersham Road, Marrickville. was assaulted and sustained…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

To the Tramway Men All-day Stop Is a Strike. Union President's Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

Mr. James M'Carthy, president of the Tramway Employees' Union, writes:-- "The Tramway Employees' Union has Just decided at a mass meeting to take a ballot…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Soldier's Skull Fractured. Assault at the Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 4

Early yesterday moraine Private George Halloran (45). stationed at Cusula camp, was returning, in company with a fellow-soldier, to the Central Hallway Station in order to catch a…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

An Enemy Aeroplane Captured Intact in France

The Land · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 12

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

German Aeroplane Brought Down by the Russians

The Land · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 3

Trove gives no preview of this one. Open it to read the story on the page.

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

John Bridge and Co., Limited

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 7

This week has been given over to the Brisbane sales. In the northern market everything has passed off very well indeed. By far the greater proportion of the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Fatalities & Accidents. Soldier Falls From Train

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 8

Milton George Todd (28), a soldier encamped at Liverpoal was unable to find a scat in the 11 p.m. train to Liverpool on Monday night, so he clambered on to the tender of the engine,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Double Tram Lines on a 28Ft. Main Road. Dangerous Traffic at St. Peters

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 11

The extraordinary condition of Cook's River Road at St., Peters, a heavily used main thoroughfare, is described by Mr. Crawford, M.L.A., who points out that in some places the…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

The Fokker Aeroplane Huns Adopt a Dutchman's Invention. Germany's New Machine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 1

The Fokker monoplane, with which the Germans have achieved some successes recently, as mentioned in the last issue of the "Farmer and Settler," is the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

German Train Wrecked. a Daring Feat by Russians

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 4

Lettish volunteers at daylight crawled past the German soldiers guarding the Libua-Romny railway, cut the throats of the sentries, and broke up the railway…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fell From Train Injured Soldier's Condition Auburn

The Sun · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 5

At the Granville Cottage Hospital, Auburn, yesterday afternoon, Private Milton George Todd, the soldier who fell off a train on Wednesday night, sustaining injuries to his…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Profits From Road Metal Emu Company Earns £5613

The Sun · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 5

The twenty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Emu and Prospect Gravel and Road Metal Company,. Ltd., was held this afternoon at the City Bank…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

A Fatal Driving Accident. Horse Wanders off the Road

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 4

Walter Stock, aged sixty years, a resident of Sydney, met with a fatal accident on the Sydney-road, near Bathurst, on Monday. He was driving a horse in…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Motoring. Records Lowered

The Land · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 14

Word has been received in Sydney to the effect that Stan Nunan, the Victorian, riding an 8 h.p. Excelsior, has lowered Jack Booth's record for the…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →