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  • ...ne near driver Alder remarked to Supt Hare if it would suit to couple both trains together. Supt Hare considered some little time and then said he thought it ...or trains to come on. I then received instructions to act as pilot for all trains during the day which duty I was engaged until 11.30pm at night having been
    6 KB (1,163 words) - 11:44, 15 November 2015
  • Four trains passed the house before half past two in the afternoon - two each way - and
    4 KB (639 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...of the probable movements of the police. The day being Sunday no ordinary trains would be passing along the line for many hours, and Ned Kelly felt sure tha
    5 KB (821 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...med men upon the engines and ordered a slow advance to the station. As the trains drew up to the platform there was no sound anywhere; no one stirring, and n
    4 KB (706 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...restrained by his brother. During the time we were in the store-room four trains passed, two each way, and when any of these were heard approaching, we were
    6 KB (1,111 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • IT was perfectly wonderful how all the trains were watched by Kelly sympathizers. You could tell them in a moment, they w
    5 KB (972 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...elly and the repairers returned. Ned then inquired about the signalling of trains, as to how I stopped a train with the signal lights. I said, "White is
    5 KB (995 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...t off with a party of police and black trackers to pick up their trail. No trains ran on that line on Sundays and therefore, the only one likely to come alon
    6 KB (1,024 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ent from Wangaratta. As there is likely to be bloodshed, and other special trains run, will you please send on a good operator with a sounder instrument, so
    6 KB (994 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...n a conveyance from his house to Schoolhouse Line, to meet the up and down trains. With the exception of the proprietor of this hotel, the Tallarookites seem
    6 KB (943 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...seven places just named, from the foot of Elizabeth-street, The Government trains all leave for the country from Spencer-street. Melbourne is supplied with w
    5 KB (702 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...elf commanded very little notice. They were already used to the arrival of trains, but the visit of 550 fashionably-dressed ladies and gentlemen to that out-
    3 KB (493 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...la but a day or two's work will finish them. In the mean while the ballast trains have to run upon lines at the side of the permanent way, Violet Town , in t
    5 KB (794 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...paratively smooth road. On the first section from Melbourne to Seymour the trains run with undoubted smoothness. But on the second section the road has not h
    4 KB (776 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...e goods traffic on the finished parts of the line is already large and the trains average 90 passengers a day. Before the railway was made there was seldom a
    4 KB (721 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...st bridge of importance is over Hughes's Creek, 10 miles from Seymour. The trains will not run over it for a fortnight or three weeks yet. For the present a ...contractors will not complete it until the end of the year. Until then the trains will cross upon a wooden budge. A work nearly as large will occur on the th
    4 KB (706 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ce, and daily increasing, there would be plenty of traffic for a couple of trains a day. Very little engineering skill is required, and there are few lines i
    7 KB (1,183 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...to be interfered with, and it in proposed to run pilot engines before the trains. By this it would seem that the spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism is not c
    6 KB (1,006 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ek and reinforcements of police have been sent to that district by special trains. This is all the foundation there appears to be for the rumours which were
    4 KB (688 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...police was greatly facilitated by the Railway department, by whom special trains were run.
    8 KB (1,262 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015

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