Train for Sydney on Sunday Night
A movement is being got up in some of the towns on the Southern Railway line (says the Wagga Wagga Advertiser)to have the mail train leaving Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1889
356 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 18
Railway From Yass to Queanbeyan
ON Tuesday morning last Messrs. E. W. O'Sullivan and T. Colls, the members for Queanbeyan and Yass Plains, waited upon the Minister for Works, and asked that he would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Carpenter who Worked on Good
This individual seeing a letter in our last issue signed "Workman," in which the writer complained of a railway carpenter accepting work on Good Friday, while other men were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hawkesbury Bridge
The Hawkesbury Bridge was officially [?]ested on Wednesday, and the result was [?]minently satisfactory. In the contract accepted by the Union Bridge Company, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tarago-Braidwood Railway
A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Ryrie, Colls, Gormly, Barbour, Lakeman, Kidd, Cass, Travers Jones, Dawson, O'Sullivan, Garrard, Edmunds, Black, T. G. Dangar, Teece, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road to Taemas Bridge
MR. COLLS has received from the Department of Public Works the following letter relative to the opening of a road to Taemas Bridge:-- Department of Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Francis Train. LONDON, April 29
George Francis Train, who mode himself notorious by his attempt to introduce street tramways in London about 30 years ago, is reported to be starving himself to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway at the Couge. LONDON, April 29
Arrangements have been made to construct a railway to connect the navigation of the Upper Congo with the sea. The distance is 270 miles, and the cost is estimated at £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Vienna Tramway Strike. LONDON, April 27
The strike amongst the tramway employees at Vienna has been terminated, the company having conceded the terms asked for by the men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of the Hawkesbury Bridge
THE bridge over the Hawkesbury River, one of the largest structures of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and as regards its foundations one of the most remarkable in the world,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Disaster in Canada. LONDON, April 29
A terrible railway disaster has occurred near the City of Hamilton, on the Ontario line, in Upper Canada. A train caught fire and 18 of the passenger were burned to death before they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Commissioner's Report
From the quarterly report of Railway Commissioners, ended 1889, which was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, it appears that the revenue for the quarter, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Time-Table
SOME alterations have been made in the running of the trains on the Cooma line in order to meet the convenience of passengers by the train which leaves for Sydney at 12.10, complaints…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Traffic at Easter
THE Railway Commissioners have received returns of the traffic on the railways during the Easter holidays. For the week ending the 22nd April the department carried 415,000 people, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of the Hawkesbury Bridge
THE bridge over the Hawkesbury River, one of the largest structure of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and as regards its foundations one of the most remarkable in the world, was opened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Disaster in Canada. London. April 29
A dreadful railway accident occurred at Hamilton, on the Ontario line, United States. The train took fire ; 18 person were burned to death, and 12 others were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tarago to Braidwood Railway
A deputation waited on the Minister for Works on Thursday and asked for the construction of a branch line of railway from Tarago to Braidwood. Among those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads in the Queanbeyan District
IN the Assembly on Thursday Mr. Brunker, in answer to Mr. O'Sullivan, said that a road, for which application was made less than 16 months ago, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway across Siberia. LONDON, May 1
A Commission of leading Russian engineers has approved of General Paneker's scheme for the construction of a railway across Siberia…
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