Smash on Railway. Coal Trucks Break Away
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 8
Shortly before midnight on Monday a train laden with about 500 tons of coal was proceeding towards Waterfall station from Helensburgh when 20 trucks forming the rear portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Industrial and Models Exhibition. Some of the Exhibits in the Central Railway Pavilion, Sydney
Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 30
A Welding Machine. This Locomotive has travelled 62,000…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Motor and Cycling Notes
Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 43
Some 1220 women are now engaged serving as conductresses on the motor omnibuses in London. The largest aeroplanes in the world are now…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Queensland Border Railway
Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 36
Speaking at a meeting of the committee of the Kyogle Agricultural Society, Mr. C. A. Lee, M.L.A., urged members to make the next show a succes, as such would materially…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Aeroplane Accident
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 5
LONDON, Wednesday.--C. B. Ponton, mi Australian and a second-lieutenant in the Flying Corps, is in a precarious condition. His aeroplane fell 100 feet. A man named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Runaway Coal Train. Smash at Helensburgh
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4
A serious railway smash occurred at Helensburgh (N.S.W.) on Monday night, but fortunately it was unattended with loss of life. A coal train, loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Metal Contracts. Vaucluse Council Episode. Alderman's Unsustained Charges
Evening News · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4
At the Va[?] Council meeting last night, Alderman Christian formally moved the following motion.—"That, in view of the statements made by Alderman Johnston at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twenty-sixth Annual Conference of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association. Important Business Sheet. The “All Grades” Parliament
Co-operator · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 1
(1) It is with pleasure that I subj[?] to you herewith my fourth annual report, financial statement, etc. The balance–sheet will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Fall From Tram. Accident Near Maroubra Bay
Evening News · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4
Shortly after 9 o'clock last night a woman whose identity has not yet been ascertained, fell from a moving tram near Maroubra Bay, sustaining a fractured skull, right arm and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-car Speeds Some Australian Records Measured Mile in Forty-four Seconds
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 5
The speed trial fixture recently held at Southport, Queensland, has created widespread interest among motorists throughout the whole of Australia. This event…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land Settlement and Railway Development. Farmers' Finance N.S.W. State Savings Bank How Development Loans Are Procurable
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3
I have 500 acres of C.P. and C.L. land, the improvements on which I value at £200. Against these improvements I desire to acquire £150…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Produce Brisk Business Sussex St. Alexandria Railway Sales Disorganised
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 5
At the produce sales at the Alexandria (Sydney) goods yard on Tuesday, wheaten chaff was sold at 6% and oaten at 2/2 to 4/3 per cwt. There was a fair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Motor-car Fatality. The Taxi-driver Arrested
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 4
Arthur Patrick Murray, a soldier attached to the A.I.F., met with a fatal motor accident on Tuesday morning. Accompanied by two friends he engaged a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Crude Tram System
The Australian Worker · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 12
THE N.S.W. Tramway Commissioners have been trying the experiment of fixing bars on the trams to prevent venturesome passengers from committing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Notice. Railway Workers' Industry Branch
The Australian Worker · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 21
As the majority of members have sent in their WORKER slips, the practice of sending bundles of papers to reps, will be discontinued, except where provision has…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Bombala Railway Works Closed Down for Want of Money
The Australian Worker · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 21
A deputation from the Bombala district interviewed N.S.W. Minister for Works Ball last Thursday to ask that the construction of the railway from Nimmitabel…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Transcontinental Railway. to Be Opened in June or July
The Australian Worker · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 22
It is considered by Senator Lynch, Federal Minister for Works, who has journeyed, overland from Kalgoorlie, that the transcontinental railway line will be…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Political Boss-ship and the Railways
The Australian Worker · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 23
Dear Worker,—Seldom in the history of any country could greater injustice be done to taxpayers than the recent action of our…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Tramway Employees
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 11
As a result of claims put forward by the New South Wales Government Tramway Employees' Union an award which has been framed by the Government Tranmays Group…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Exhibition
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 10
Amont the visitors to the Models and Industiral Exhibition, which is being held in the Railway Institute and precinets, yesterday, was a party of members of…
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