Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Railways, roads & transport, all years

Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1895

103 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 6

The Redfern Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Friday—Mr. Ralston, solicitor, who sued the railway commissioners for £12,000 damages for injuries received in the Redfern accident, has obtained a verdict for…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Repairs to Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 September 1895 · page 2

Mr O'Sullivan has received acknowledgements from the Department of Public Works of letters referring to the following repairs to roads, and is informed that the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Railway Case

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 September 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—Mrs Granger, suing for £10,000 for the loss of her husband in the Redfern disaster, got £4000…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Claims in the Redfern Railway Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 September 1895 · page 4

THE cases in which damages were claimed against the railway commissioners for injuries and loss caused by the Redfern railway accident were completed on…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Queanbeyan Police Court. Tuesday Sept. 17Th. Before the Police Magistrate and. Messrs. Wright, Bull and Gale. Travelling Without a Railway Ticket

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 September 1895 · page 2

S. Mackay appeared on summons charging him with having on the 4th July last, travelled from Fleming to Cooma on an expired drover's pass with intent to defraud…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Messrs Maitland, P.M., Wright, Gale, and Bull, Js.P.) a Railway Case

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 September 1895 · page 2

Samuel Mackay was charged with travelling on the railways on an expired pass, with intent to defraud the Commissioners. Accused pleaded not guilty…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Chinese Railway

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 September 1895 · page 2

London, Thursday—The Emperor of China has sanctioned the construction of a railway line from Shanghai to Nankin…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Tramp's Resolve

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 September 1895 · page 4

A sad-looking gentleman, like a sort of very much retired Hamlet, with a painful expression of face, entered the coffee-room of a country…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Road Through Bywong

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

"Sydney, 21st September, 95. Sir—With reference to your letter of the 6th inst. again urging the opening of a road from the Gundaroo road to Mac's Reef, across the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Our Railways

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 October 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Friday—Mr Fashion, one of the railway commissioners, stated at Young yesterday that the New South Wales railways were the only colonial railways which were…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Road Contracts

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

The following is the result of the tenders opened at the Queanbeyan Court House on Thursday, 17th inst., by the resident engineer, Mr O'Hanlon :—Contract 55, road…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Selling Tramways

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.—The Auckland (New Zealand) tramways have been sold to English syndicate, who intend to substitute electricity…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Railway Commissioners

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—The re-appointment of Messrs Eddy, Oliver and Fehon, the railway commissioners, has been gazetted…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Railway Tenders

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—Tenders for the Jerilderie Berrigan railway will be invited next week…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Electric Trams

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—The Minister for Works, Mr Young, is considering the construction of an electric tram from the foot of Erskine-street to the Post Office in George-street…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Point Hut Road. a Novel and Forcible Petition

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 2

The following is taken from the Sydney Daily Telegraph:— For a number of years past the inhabitants of a portion of the Queanbeyan district…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Railway "Combine"

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 2

London, Thursday—The American and Canadian railways have combined for the purpose of regulating rates, fares, and freights…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Killed by a Tram

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 November 1895 · page 4

A shocking accident happened on the tramline in Frenchman's road Randwick, shortly after midnight on Thursday, when a young man named…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Bridge Refused

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 November 1895 · page 2

Mr E. W. O'Sullivan has received the following reply:—"Public Works Department, Sydney, November 21st. Sir,—With reference to the petition presented by you from Messrs…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Point Hut Road

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 November 1895 · page 2

With reference to the agitation for a road from Point Hut Crossing on the Murrumbidgee River to the Queanbeyan Road, and about which that famous woman's petition was written to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →