Fracas in a Railway Carriage
One day last week two occupants of a first-class carriage on the Dublin and Kingston Railway quarrelled. One had got a portmanteau…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illawarra · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1866
7 stories in Illawarra's papers
Terrified Explosion in Bridge-street
If we were to announce this morning that a large part of Bridge-street, Sydney, was a heap of ruin, we should be almost borne out by its present desolate appearance. At half past six o'clock yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Roads
The Bench of magistrates are now very active in mending our way to the port, but as they have no power to touch any but the one main road, all others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road to Poor Farming
As the road to "poor farming" is not generally understood, although it is crowded with travellers, we throw up the following landmarks from the Springfield Republican, for the common…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cheap Railways
The present condition of our finances affords but small prospects of greatly extending our railways, except by the adoption of some new plan. In a neighboring colony, a railway bill has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bridge at Dubbo
Not very long ago a Roman Catholic Bishop, in Ireland, published a pastoral to his flock, in which he censured them severely for still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extraordinary Accident on the Great Northern Railway
The Great Northern has hitherto been regarded as being one of the best managed railway systems in England, but at the present moment that system is almost entirely blocked by a disaster…
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