Railway Extensions
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Nyngan to Byrock railway extension of 454 miles from Sydney was opened to-day without ceremony…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
330 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 17
Illawarra Railway
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The opening of the first section of the IIlawarra Railway to Hurstville, is fived for October 7th…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A large and influential deputation waited to day upon the Minister of Public Works, in regard to the proposed Walgett-Narrabri railway extension…
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THE writer of "Town Talk," in the Sydney" Echo,' makes the following amusing remarks anent railway openings:—Byerock has been insulted. We have not the least notion where or what Byerock is, but…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—It has been arranged that Ministers are to make no political speeches at Mudgee in reference to the present and coming sessions…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wm. Ward, the driver of a trolly engaged at the work of widening the Penrith and Parramatta railway, was knocked down by a passing…
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MUDGEE, Wednesday.—The Ministerial train left Sydney at a few minutes past 6 o'clock this morning, well filled with members of Parliament, to attend…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A collision occurred at Campbelltown to-day between two goods trains. A drover riding in one of the break vans was killed in it, and a…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Arrangements having been made by the Government with the contractors, to take over the temporary bridge over the Murrumbidgee and…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—At the Ministerial visit to Gulgong the Acting Minister for Works (Hon. G. R. Dibbs) practically pledged the Ministry to a further…
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"Which is the road ?" cries the wandering pilgrim, Travelling on through life's pathway so wide. "How shall I get to the heavenly portal ? Where shall I seek for a guardian and guide?"…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In view of the importance attached to the construction of a bridge over the Hawkesbury, on the Newcastle railway route, it has been…
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LONDON Monday.—The Royal Bank of Scotland is forming a Syndicate to float a Melbourne tramway loan…
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THE other day a tramp walked into a Carson yard and asked for a day's work trimming trees, assuring the man of the house that an old pair of trousers or a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-The railway proposals of the Government were finally agreed to at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday…
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SIR,—Some of the Government Railway hands, employed on and near the wharf, are in the habit of amusing themselves by throwing potatoes, lumps of coal, or other…
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Late on Monday night, August 4, a young woman was found unconscious lying on the London and North-Western Railway between Worleston and Calverley. She…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In the District Court, Israel Joseph sued the Commissioner for Railways for £200 damages to his cab and self, by a tram motor, on…
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SIR,—Having read of that fatal accident on the Western line, caused, no doubt, through the insufficiency of brake power, it ought to act as a caution to the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the inquest on the woman Annie Milley, aged sixty-five, who was knocked down by a tram motor in Campbell-street, a verdict of accidental…
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