The Sandy Ridges Road
So many complaint have been made about the exceptionally bad state of what is known as the Sandy Ridges road, that it is quite time measures…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
261 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 14
Original Correspondence. Freight Charges on our Railways (To the Editor Riverine Grazier)
SIR,—The extension of gratuitous services to individuals and classes by the Commissioners for Railways under pressure is a growing evil which requires immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fatality. a Laborer's Death. Sydney
A laborer mined Ernest Mitchell was terribly crushed at the Redfern railway station yesterday evening. His injuries were of a frightful nature,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Freight Charges on Our Railways. to the Editor of the Albury Banner
SIR—The extension of gratuitous service to individuals and classes by the Commissioners of Railways under pressure is a growing evil which requires immediate attention…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →A Record Run by a Special Train
The London and North-Western Railway Company are now running their special trains from Euston to Liverpool (England)—200 miles without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident in Victoria. an Entire Train Off the Rails
The passengers by the 3.35 up train from Portland on Monday evening experienced a sensation which they will not easily forget. The train consisted of the guard's van, a…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →The Bridge Stealers of Russia
A traveller arrives at a river which he calculates on being able to cross. Not a bit of it! The bridge has been solen in the night by the peasants! True it is that these bridges are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Culcairn to Derm Anton Railway
The Minister for Works was waited upon on Friday by Messrs Lyne, O Connor, Cann, and Quinn, M's.L. A., and Mr. Ross, from Grermanton, with reference to the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Canadian Tram Strike. Serious Rioting. London, July 10
A strike of tramway employes has occurred at London, in Ontario, a town of over 30,000 inhabitants. The strike was accompanied by serious…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Lord Salisbury on Railways
At the forty first annual dinner of the Railway Benevolent Institution to London recently, Lord Salisbury spoke as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sporting. Cycling. the Local Road Race
This long-postponed contest for a trophy given by Messrs. Lobbe and Sharp, as representatives of the Speedwell bicycle manufacturers, was run on Saturday. The result of…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Railway Accident
A Nyngan paper says.—On Monday night, Mr. Dan Long, one of the gangers on the railway line, had a miraculous escape from serious injury and possible death. It…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Sensational Railway Accident
A serious railway accident, fortunately unattended with fatal results, occurred on the West Wallsend Cockle Creek line on Wednesday evening last. The train consisted of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Gunbar Railway League
A meeting of the above league took place at Gunbar Hotel, on Wednesday, 19th inst., when several matters of interest came up for consideration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Cold in New Zealand. a Train Showed Up
Very severe weather has been experienced lately in Otago, the frost being the hardest ever recorded. A train was snowed up for several hours near Hyde, and the roads to the gold-fields…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Strike at Brooklyn. Elevated Railway Damaged. London, July 20
A strike of tramway employes has taken place at Brooklyn, New York, which has been accompanied by serious outrages. The strikers endeavored to destroy the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Supply Bill. £1,497,500 Asked For. £300,000 for Roads and Bridges. the Premier Threatens a Dissolution. Sydney
In the Assembly to-day Mr. Caruthers moved the suspension of the standing orders for the purpose of passing a two month' supply bill through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tram Strike in America. New York
The strikers in Ohio continue to adopt violent measures, and the soldiers have been ordered to fire or use bayonets if necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales Parliament. the Rosehill Railway. Personal Explanations. Sydney
The Assembly met at four o'clock this afternoon. The galleries were unusally full, as if in anticipation of further reference to the sensational incidents of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Railway Extension on the Victorian Border
A largely attended public meeting was held at Peechelba on Thursday, with a view of agitating for a cross-country line from Dookie to Springhurst. The opinion was…
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