Tramway employees Agitation
The tramway employees in Sydney and Newcastle have made up their minds to have the eight hours system applied to their work. Some time ago, with the encouragement of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
291 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 15
Grafton-casino Railway
We were Informed lAst night that work on the, Grafton-Casino line will commence within a fortnight from to-day, and that employment will be given to a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway Deputation to the Minister for Works. Sydney, Thursday Night
A LARGE and representative deputation, accompanied by a number of members of Parliament waited on Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan (Minister for Works)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The North Coast Railway. Crafton to Maitland
SYDNEY, THURSDAY —The proposed North Coast Railway, from Maitland to Grafton, was the subject of a large deputation to the Premier and the Minister for Works this afternoon. Delegates…
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ON Thursday a large deputation, including representatives from all the northern rivers, waited upon the Premier and Mr. O'Sullivan to urge that steps be taken towards the construction of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast Railway
The Premier has given a promise that be will ask the House to send to the Public Works Commtttee a proposal to construct a railway along the, North Coast A surprising bit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advantages of Motor Cars
THE Hon. Charles Rolls, one of the foremost automobilists in England, recently delivered a lecture in London concerning the advantages of the motor car over horses. The principal advantages, he…
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"WHILE the surveyors are here making a trial survey of the railway line between Coraki and Casino, the line between the two deep water centres—Maclean and Coraki—should be…
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Some little time back we heard a rumour from a tolerably well-informed source that there was a disposition on the part of the Works Department to hang up the reports on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crafton-Casino Railway. Work About to Begin
Last night we learnt from Mr. Stawell, who is in charge of the Grafton-Casino railway line, that work will begin on Tuesday next. During the next few days there will probably be room…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cars
The other day a man was fined in Sydney becanse he had driven a motor car in one of the streets at the rate of 30 miles an hour. It was in Oxfordstreet he did this bit of scorching. It is a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World's Railways
The average increase to the length of railway throughout the world (Engineering says) is about 11,000 miles per annum, equal to nearly 2½ per cent of the total lines existing, which at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Railways. Sydney
MR. O'SULLIVAN, replying to a question in the Assembly yesterday, in reference to the Tenterfield-Casino, Guyra to South Grafton, and Guyra to Coff's Harbor lines being submitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Sleepers
DURING a long personal interview with the Secretary for Railways recently Mr. Briner, M.L.A., urged that the hardwoods on the North Coast should he utilised as railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New England Railway. Sydney
REPLYING to a question with reference to the submission of the Tenterfield Casino, Guyra to South Grafton, and Guyra to Coff's Harbor railway lines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Riding on a Motor Car
Among those who are at the Cup carnival in Melbourne is a small party from Sydney per motor car. They have travelled overland on this most delightful conveyance, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Road
THE appended official letter has been sent to the member for Raleigh :-"Referring to the petition from certain residents of the South Arm of the Bellinger River, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tweed Railway
The Tweed Public Schools Association were to hold their annual sports one day last week, and applied to the Railway Department to arrange the running of the train to suit the sports. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney's Electric Tramways
The Railway Commissioners recently imported ii gentleman from America to fill the position of Assistant Electrical Engineer in their Department. He has expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moree-Inverell Railway
Inverellites are making a great effort to celebrate the railway opening to their town on November 25th with becoming glee. The…
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