Extra Train
The Government has decided from Sunday next to run a train to Mount Victoria, returning the same day, to arrive at Sydney about 6.30 p.m…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
351 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 18
Increased Railway Fares
ON the 1st January the railway rates on all lines were increased The alteration was carried into effect with look of notice or intimation. The first knowledge the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children at the Cattle Train
Somewhere about Fitchburg, as we stopped for twenty minutes at a station, I amused myself by looking out of a window at a waterfall which came tumbling over the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rapid Progress of the Tay Bridge Works
"Messrs. Arrol and Co., contractors for the Tay Budge are now making rapid progress with the work of throwing a viaduct across the estuary of the Tay. On Monday they joined the north…
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When Jack Belford came, to himself after that frightful plunge through the air, he found himself struggling in the water, blinded deafened, and half suffocated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Railway Communication with South Australia
The railway from Adelaide to New South Wales border, at a point near the Thackaringa Mines, is expected to be ready for traffic by the end of February or early in March: and this fact, (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Retrenchment
The investigation with a view to retrenchment in the Works Department has resulted in a recommendation being sent to the Minister to reduce the railway field staff…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Train Signal System
Various methods of signalling electrically from the ca[?]s of a train to the locomotive have been devised. The voltaic battery has, as a rule, been employed as the source of current, but, in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Road From Jerry's Plains to Doyle's Creek. Department of Public Works. Sydney, 13st January, 1887
Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of petition forwarded by you on the subject of the classification of the road from Jerry's Plains to Doyle's Creek, and to inform…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Smash near Petersham
ON Sunday morning a passenger train consisting of five American carriages and one ordinary guard's van left Ashfield, passing the signal-box about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Trusts and Noxious Weeds. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In the letter published in your issue of the 8th instant, headed Road Trusts and Noxious Weeds, signed Traveller, wishing to be informed if the local road trust are supposed to clear the roads…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Collision at Petersham. (From the Echo.)
On Sunday morning a passenger train—consisting of five American carriages and one ordinary guard's van—left Ashfield, passing the signal-box at 5 a.m. On reaching Petersham, finding the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →First Through Train from Melbourne to Adelaide
The first through passenger train from Melbourne to Adelaide (says the Age of Thursday) was despatched yesterday afternoon, at five minutes past 4, from the Spencer-street platform. Mr. Ford,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Upset a Train at Mittagong
THE Moss Vele Serutineer reports that on Tuesday morning last the 18th inst, between the hours of half-past two and half-past three a.m. an attempt was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electric Lighting of Railways
THE Argus says:— The Railway Department received from England some months back a portable aparatus for electric lighting. It was intended that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Building Extraordinary
"A man could go through twenty battles on a quarter the cold nerve that Andy Hick-enlooper had to use in one little episode with McPherson down on the Tennessee river,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Markets. Mr. John Bridge's Report
The usual furred skin auctions were held to-day. The market maintains lately acquired stimulus, enquiry being extensive and competition sound. I offered 2843 kangaroo skins and 514 opossum skins,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage to Railway Line
What might have resulted in a serious railway accident, was happily averted (says Monday's Evening News) by the vigilanee of the officials this morning. It appears that when the western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wash-aways on the Railway
The Murrurundi Times says: On the evening of Wednesday information was received that the line was damaged between Curlewis and Breeza and in consequence the up mail train was delayed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Road From Brandy Greek to Dry Greek. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
Sir,-Well you kindly allow me a small space in your valuable columns to make a few remarks concerning the road from Brandy Creek via Goorangoola to Dry Creek,…
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