The Completest Railway Station in the World
This is the designation applied by the Birmingham Trade Journal to the railway station just completed in that town, and thus described:—" The time, occupied, from, the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
335 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 17
Railway Demonstration Committee
THE committee for carrying out the recent demonstration on the opening of the railway to Young, at the Council Chambers, on Wednesday evening, the Mayor, Mr. William Sharp, in the…
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A daring robbery took place on Tuesday night in the Western mail train from Sydney Mr. C. W. Bromilow, of Orange, returning from Sydney, occupied a bunk in a sleeping…
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The Maryborough Chronicle (Queensland) is in receipt of the details of a shocking and fatal accident which occurred at the Gympie railway station. A railway employee named Andrew Crichton was…
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Sydney, May 27.âAbout 180,000 tram fares were collected last Monday…
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THE following road has been confirmed, and it is declared expedient to open and make it, according to the plan and book of reference, to be seen at the Police Office,…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held at Wild's Meadow on Thursday evening, 21st instant, to take into consideration the advisability of petitioning government to construct a railway from Moss Vale to Robertson…
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Mr. George Stewart, an engineer in the locomotive department of the railway has, after a series of experiments, successfully brought into use a hydraulic signal, which will supersede the present…
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THE Ministerial train conveying Mr. Wright, Minister for Works, and party, left Sydney at 6 o'clock this morning, and arrived at Goulburn at about 10.40. Mr. Wright and another gentleman…
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A new time-table has been issued by the Railway Department, which will come into opration on June 1. A number of small alterations have been made as regards the suburban trains, particularly those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at Queanbeyan
On Thursday a serious accident happened to a young man named Fred Clupperfield, employed at No. 101 cutting. The unfortunate man had "bulled" a hole, and was in the act of charging it, when the…
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IN the Forbes Borough Council on Tuesday last a letter was read from the secretary of the Railway League at Grenfell, asking for the co-operation of the Council in the movement to extend the railway…
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London, June 2.—Fifteen tenders have been received for the erection of a railway bridge over the Hawkesbury River, to connect the northern railway. The tenders hare been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on the railway works on Monday near Coolac to a man named Clancy, a platelayer, who was knocked down by a truck loaded with sleepers. One of the front wheels…
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Sydney, June 5.—This morning fourteen Australian Combination railway tracks were loaded for the first time with live stock at Dubbo. Two men in two hours placed 1200…
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AT Dubbo on Friday morning fourteen trucks, known as the Australian combination railway trucks, were loaded for the first time with, live stock. The trucks came from Sydney on the previous day, loaded…
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ON Wednesday last Mr. John Wallace drove out his four-horse drag, taking several other gentlemen with him, to see how the survey party, engaged in marking out the Braidwood railway line from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Department Volunteer Corps
AT a meeting held in the Oxford Hotel, King-street, Sydney, on the let instant, it was resolved by the railway officials forming it "that a purely Volunteer corps in connection with the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at the Railway Running Shed
At about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning a test of two of the iron principals was being made at the new railway running shed. The test applied was a severe one being no less than twelve…
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Sydney, June 10.—On Monday next the action Adams v. the Commissioner of Railways will be commenced before the Chief Justice and a special jury of twelve. This…
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