Electricity on Railways
Our readers are aware that an experiment is proceeding in Sydney which may lead to the displacement of the steam motor on the tramways in favour of oats worked by…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1894
353 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 18
Page's Creek Road. Public Works Department, Sydney, 4th June, 1894
SIR,—With reference to the letter dated 5th ultimo, forwarded by you from Mr. W. D. Stanford, of Filerston, urging the repair of the Page's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road, Stewarts Brook. Department of Lands, Sydney, 9th June, 1894
SIR,—With reference to your letter of the 5th December last, applying for the the opening of a read through R. H. Carter's 40 acres conditional purchase,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moonan Brook-glenrook Road. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 4th June, 1894
SIR,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant, on the, subject of from Moonan Brook to Glenrack, and to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worries of a Train Dispatcher
It was the train-dispatcher[?] turn to toll a story and this was the one he told: 'I was working on a western road in 1880, and I had a long night trick. The section of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rights of Railway Passengers
Earl Russells frequent prosecutions of railway companies deserve to he warmly commended. If monopolists are at all to be tolerated, it is only on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Management. An Extraordinary Circular. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
AN extraordinary circular has been issued by four members of the Unions connected with the railways to members of the railway service, appealing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Free Railways and Single Tax. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
"There is a principle which is a bar against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance This principle is contempt prior to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our State Railways. a False Balance-sheet. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)
SIR,—Since I began to write on this subject more than a year age, as I suppose ninety-nine out of every hundred men would do,I have taken the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our State Railways—a False Balance Sheet
SIR,—Since I began to write on this subject' more than a year ago, as I suppose ninety-nine out of every hundred men would do, I have taken the Commissioners' report and the balance sheet therein…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Armoured Train
The new armoured train, which has been. allotted to the Ist Sussex Artillery Volunteers,was privately tried on the morning o£ May 12th by Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Time Table
Below are the hours at which the through trains between Sydney and Brisbane and between Sydney Newcastle, Maitland, and northern and north-western towns are timed to run until further…
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THE following letter has been forwarded to us for publication by Mr. R.G. D. Fitz-Gerald, M.L.A. :—"Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Time Table
Below are the hours at which the through trains between Sydney and Brisbane and between Sydney Newcastle, Maitland, and northern and north-western towns are timed to run until further…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Railway Strike in America. Alarming Developments. Terrible Excesses by the Rioters. Troops Unable to Cope with the Mobs. London, July 7
THE disturbances in Chicago arising out of the strike of railway, employees have assumed alarming proportions. The troops are totally unable to cope…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour Troubles in America Militia join the Rioters. Railways Destroyed
OWING to work in the factories having been brought to A standstill because of the lack of fuel in consequence of the railway strike, 100,000 workman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bulga Bridge Repairs. Department of public Works, Sydney, 7th July, 1894
Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th inst., urging the desirability of having ballast or curblogs on the sides of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Time Table
Below are the hours at which the through trains between Sydney and Brisbane and between Sydney Newcastle, Maitland, and northern and north-western towns are timed to run until further…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The American Railway Troubles. Prepared for a Siege. Arrest of a Labor Leader
The railway employes on strike at Sacramento, in the State of California, are well armed with rifles and revolvers. They are entrenched to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident
Shortly before eleven o'clock last night a lad, James Bunker, employed as call boy in the locomotive department, whilst walking down the railway line at Wickham, was knocked down by a shunting…
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