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Illawarra · Railways, roads & transport
40 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2
In a letter lated Hamburg, September 28th, the correspondent of the Daily News writes:— Though the importance of railways in tome of war has been fully recognised and practically…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A railway accident, that which none of a more extraordinary character has ever occurred in any part of the world, happened in Queensland in reporting the accident, the 'Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most terrible railway disasters which has ever happened in this country, On December 24, at 11.40, an express train,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I thought it was always understood that when a member becomes a minister that he is no longer the representative of one constituency only, but becomes a trustee or representative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In accordance with advertisement, a meeting of the General Committee of the Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway movement took place at the Queen's Hotel, Wollongong, on Tuesday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I thought it was always understood, when a member becomes a Minister, that he is no longer the representative of one constituency only, but becomes a trustee, or representative, of the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY a dreadful accident occurred to the express train on the Great Western Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident occurred was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As previously announced, a meeting of tile local committee in connection with the above project was hold at the council chamber, on Monday evening last, The business was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday last, a large and influential deputation waited upon the Colonial Secretary and the Minister for Works to urge the Government to place a sum of money on the Estimates for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION numbering over thirty of the most influential residents of Sydney, and deputies from Illawarra and Metropolitan Railway Committee waited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The construction of a railway from Sydney to Illawarra is the most feasible project of its kind, as regards the prospect it holds out of being in a pecuniary point immediately reproductive, than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the deputation from the Metropolitan and Illawnrra Railway Committee waited recently on the Premier and Minister for Works with reference to the railway movement, that matter has become…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SHOCKING accident (the Argus reports) resulting in the death of a man and a boy, and in serious injury of another man, occurred on the North-eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—Mr. F. P. MacCabe has written to me, complaining of the miscarriage of the letter sent respectfully requesting his attendance at the late deputation to the Hon. the Premier, asking for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE two letters we print below, and which appeared lately in the Herald, are conjectured to have been written by Judge Hargrave. As their subject matter is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALTHOUGH we deprecate the practice of speaking of the proposed Illawarra railway as if it was a mere coal line, and believe that there would be such an amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Referring to the information about the Queensland Railways, in your leading article in the 'Mercury,' of the 16th instant, I am strongly of opinion, the more I think about it, that there is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letter, descriptive of Jervis Bay, and pointing out its advantages as a shipping port, was addressed to be Herald of Wednesday, 28th ultimo:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Omaha, April 26.—The high water which has for several days past delayed the trains on the Union Pacific Railroad has finally become so high that travel is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Bright has expressed the opinion that railways render more service and receive less gratitude than any other institution in the land, and we are inclined to…
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