The Sydney Tramways
SAYT a Melbourne paper:—"Despite the fiasco which attended the proposals made last session, the movement for the introduction of an improved…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1889
356 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 18
Road Through the Yarralumla Estate
IN the Assembly on Thursday Mr. Brunker, in answer to Mr. O'Sullivan, said that the instruction to Mr. Surveyor Wood to open a road through the Yarrslumla Estate,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident on the Railway
A sad accident happened on Sunday morning last, by which James assistant guard travelling on the special return goods train, Goulburn to Sydney, lost his life. From the evidence given at an inquest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death on the Railway
An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of James Griffin, a railway guard, whose body was picked up on the line near Wingello on Sunday, was held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peculiar Railway Fatality
ON Sunday morning an assistant guard named James Griffin was killed, through falling out of the break-van of a goods train, between Wingello and Cable's Siding, on the Southern line,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Wreck a Train
PERTH (W.A.), Monday.—A sensational attempt to wreck a train between York and Beverly was discovered by a well-known settler who, whilst riding along the line cattle-hunting,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frightful Railway Accident. a Woman Cut to Pieces
On Saturday evening last Mrs. Mabel Meredith, a widow residing in Pelham-street, Hawthorn, met with her death under very shocking and frightful circumstances at a level railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desirable Railway Improvements
Mr. RICHARD SPEIGHT, the chief of the Victorian railway commissioners, who left Melbourne some six months ago on a holiday trip to England and America, returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New South Wales Railway Commissioners in Adelaide
A telegram from Adelaide to the S. M. Herald of Thursday, states:-- This morning tho New South Wales Commissioners, Mr E. Eddy (chairman), and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Policy
AN important Cabinet meeting was held on Friday, when the Government were engaged for a considerable time in the consideration of some new railway proposals and other Public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roads in the Argyle Electorate
IT will be seen from the following letter that the proper officer has been requested to report on the state of the reads in the Argyle electorate:—"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Rossiville to Taralga
THE members for the county have received the following communication with reference to the above road:—"Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Railways
THE question of light railways in the country districts has been again opened by certain members of Parliament, and the matter has been taken into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge and Roads in the Tarago District
THE members for Argyle have received the following communication:—"Department of Public Works, office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 4th July, 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swallow Tail Road
Lieutenant-Colonel Holborow, M.L.A., has received the following on the above subjects:— "Department of Public Works. Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Proposals
Mr. Dibbs has given notice that he will move in the Legislative Assembly, on Friday, August 2,â"That in tile opinion of this House, the following proposed railways, for which authority…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Haynes and his Railway
MR. CRICK drew the attention of the Government in the Assembly on Wednesday to a paragraph which set forth that Mr. Haynes, member for Mudgee, had stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan Show-ground.—Roads
In the Assembly on Wednesday Mr. Brunker, in reply to Mr. O'Sullivan, who asked if the trustees of the Agricultural Show ground at Queanbeyan had received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road to Peelwood, Tuena, and Cordillera
THE members for the city and county have received the following very satisfactory letter:— Department of Public Works, Sydney, 15th July, 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discharge and Removal of Railway Men
The Bungendore correspondence of the Queanbeyan Times writes under date July 17:—Some considerable anxiety was felt on the railway line when it was officially notified to the Permanent…
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