Telegrams. Defective Railway Axles Sydney, Oct. 27
A professional expert accounts for the recent railway accident at Petersham on the score of defective axles. Probably 300 axles will be condemned…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
52 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 3
Opening Wollongong Kiama Railway. Sydney, Nov. 3
The opening of the Wollongong to Kiama railway is postponed to November 9…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hawkesbury Bridge. Sydney, Nov. 8
Another span of the Hawkesbury River railway bridge arrived in Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General News. Lillie Bridge Wrecked by Rioters. Grand Stand Burned and Looted
LILLIE BRIDGE GROUNDS, West Brampton, famous in pedestrian annals, was on Monday night the scene of an extraordinary riot Thousands of persons had assembled there to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Criminality in a Railway Carriage. Sydney, Nov. 15
With reference to an alleged criminal offence in a railway carriage, near Goulburn, investigation proves the whole thing to be a tissue of lies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death on the Railway. Sydney, Nov. 15
A Fetler named M. Horn was knocked down by a passing train at Petersham this morning and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Railway Lines. Sydney, Nov. 15
At a Cabinet meeting yesterday the Government considered the estimates and their railway policy. The latter includes the proposed North Coast-railway, loop line St…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Wreck a Train. Sydney, Nov. 22
An attempt was made yesterday to wreck the 6.30 a.m., train from Peat's Ferry. A piece of iron two feet long was lied to the rails at the edge of a cliff 40 feet high but was discovered by a fetler…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expenditure on Tramways. Sydney, Nov. 24
The total expenditure in the construction of the city and suburban tramways to date is £854,260…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell Off a Railway Car. Sydney, Nov. 28
Mr. Henry Day a commercial clerk fell from a passenger car on Saturday on his way from Sydney to Burwood and had both his legs broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Expensive Railway Accident. Sydney, Dec. 19
The Windsor railway accident cost the Victorian Government £120,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Interest on the Suburban Railways. Sydney, Dec. 30
A return recently made shows that the return on capital infested in the suburban railways is barely 2 per cent…
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