Railways in America
IT is stated that 65 per cent, of the American railways are not only not paying dividends, but they are a dead loss to their owners. The total investment in American railways is set…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1894
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Glen Innes — Inverell Railway
AS might have been expected, some Armidale people—true to their antecedents—are exultant over the action of the Legislative Council in respect to the Glen Innes-Inverell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saturday Morning, June 10Th, 1894. the Railway Question Again
THE shelving of the Glen Innes-Inverell railway proposal by the Legislative Council is a matter that certainly does not surprise us. We are not disposed to find fault with that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tuesday Morning, June 19Th. 1894. Teams Versus Railways. How to Settle the Business
ONE of our metropolitan contemporaries, in discussing the subject of teams v. railway competition, remarks that "It can only be carried on when forage is cheap. A touch of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Contracts
SPECIFIATIONS for the following road contracts are on view at the Court-house. As will be noticed, provision is made for repairing some bad portions on our leading highways, especially on the Armidale road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Grafton-Glen Innes Inverell Railway
MR. EDITOR—In arecentarticle upon this great national project, you advise that it should be shown that the people are united upon the question, and that no stint of effort should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our State Railway System
WRITING to the Press, Mr. W. E. Abbott asserts that the gross earnings of our railways are paid into the contiohdalcd revenue each year, and the cost of running them and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colonial Timbers for English Railways
IT is satisfactory to learn that some of the English railway companies propose to try our hardwood sleepers. The Great Eastern Railway Company has agreed to lay down 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Those Railway Routes to Thu Iablelamb
MR. EDITOR— On the eve of the assembling of a new Parliament, it may not be amiss to place before the country a few figures, taken from official reports and sworn evidence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Those Railway Routes to the Tableland
MR. EDITOR— In a recent letter I invited attention to the relative lengths, cost and, interret upon capital of the respective lines of railway propounded for connecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Commissioners' Report. Non-paying Lines. Lismore-Tweed Section. What Should be Done? Six Week's Receipts
THE Railway Commissioners' report,for the year ending 30th June last shows that the net profit on the railways gave an increase of £33,000 as compared with the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners' Report
IN the comments appearing in our last issue, on the Annual Railway Report, we omitted to acknowledge the courtesy shown by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Artful Tramp
WHEN the cook opened the door to the timid knock of the peripatetic without, she found him meekly waiting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Train of Circumstances
JOHN JAMES NORDEN, farmer, followed his occupation successfully for many years. What signifies it when or where, since in the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trade and Railway Connection with the Coast, the "Armidale Chronicle"thereon
ONE of the most difficult matters to deal with in endeavors to benefit a community is the perversity of mind which actuates those intended to be served to raise opposition…
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SPECIFCATIONS are on view at the Court house for the following road contracts, for which tenders are called — Road M'Intosh's to Nymboida, 319, yards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coldstream Roads
MR. EDITOR— Some time ngo a number of residents of the Coldstream represented to the member the condition of the rond lead ing from Tucabia to South Arm, more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Surveys. What do They Mean?
A GENTLEMAN residing in the southern part of the colony, who has for many years past taken a warm interest in the national rail way policy involved in a line West from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Railways
THE MINISTER FOR WORKS has resolved to push forward with the work of constructing light railways, and this step-if it does not involve extensive borrowing should meet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coast to the Tableland Railway Surveys— Another Fiasco
THE railway surveys, it would appear, have ended, so far as Grafton is concerned, in another fiasco. Much ado was made during the recent election about a light line of…
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