Re: Newspaper Article
Michael Lewis
Saturday, October 5, 2024 7:14 AM
If you look at NLA's Trove, for Sydney tram accidents, you will be inundated. People walking in front of trams, Conductors, Paper Boys and passengers falling off footboards or getting off on the wrong side and being swiped.
Then there are the very frequent examples of trams running into the back of others, in front. Detailed Accident Reports, Court Cases, articles - it goes on.
Maybe there's a PhD in investigating the Monday to Friday, times of driver induced "accidents". Tram staff worked split shifts and across the road from almost every Depot, was a pub, which opend as the morning shift finished.
It's all been OCR'd and indexed pretty well.From 1879 to 1961 and now, maybe the start of the Light Rails.
On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 9:10:24 AM UTC+10 Roger Greenwood wrote:
This post is directed to researchers of the Sydney tramways.
Recently I came across an article possibly from the Sydney Morning Herald of ***er 29 1912 in a column entitled LAW REPORT.
No 2 JURY COURT
(before Mr Justice Sly and a jury of 4)
A TRAM ACCIDENT
Greigg v Chief Commissioner of Railways
Very likely the article is well known to researchers but just saying anyway…
Roger Greenwood