A Road Contract. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE tender of A. Hodges has been accepted for road contract No. 46, Wagga to Cookardinia…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
173 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 9
Railway Goods' Rates. Alterations in Truck Rates
A NEW railway rate book will come into operation on Tuesday next, June 8, in which a number of alterations in existing rates are made. Full particulars of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Railway System. the Proposed Extensions
The report of the Public Works Committee on the proposed extension of the railway system to the city was laid on the table of the Assembly on Thursday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Drought Rates
IN order to Illeviate the positions of stock— owners during the drought the Railway Commissioners have made a number of concessions in freight on carriage and stock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Drought and Starving Stock. Concessions by the Railway Commissioners
In order to alleviate the position of stockowners during the drought the Railway Commissioners have made a number of concessions in freight on carriage of stock to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Railway Extension the Scheme Approved
According to the scheme approved sis lines of railway will be extended from Redfern station across Devonshire-street. "The lines throughout will be in the open…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Extension From Temora
Our sympathies are naturally with Temora in the matter of railway extension from that town. It now appears, from correspondence which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a Lighter Vein. Occasional Notes and News. "Going by the Cheap Train."
SEVERAL of the country towns are up in arms against the Railway Commissioners. And no wonder. The effect of the cheap trains which are saw run regular is to still further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cemetery Road
A old resident writes to say that away back in the "Fifties" when there were no fences to speak of and persons could select the best and shortest roads for themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Railway
Inhabitants of the country as well as citizens of Sydney are keenly concerned about the projected extension of the railway to the northern boundary of Hyde…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at Mitta gong
Wednesday's Bowral Tret Press says: About 11 o'clock on Saturday night lust Mr James Alt, stationmaster at Hilltop for the past 14 years, was found on tire railway lino…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. "This is true liberty, when freeborn [?]. Having to advise the public, mayspeak free. Mil[?]. Saturday, June 26. Control of the Railways
Two years ago, when Parliament was discussing the question of re-appointing Mr. E. M. G. Eddy for a further term of seven years as Chief Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a Lighter Vein. Notes and News. From Leary's Bridge
IS it not strange that an effort has not been made to remove or lower the steep grade from Loary's bridge to Sheridan-street. All the district has been facing that grade since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Counter-Agitation. Railway to Hillston
We take from the Hillston paper the following letter, read at a farmers' union meeting there a few days since:- Mr [?] wrote a long letter in reference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter to the Editor. a Dangerous Road
SIR,—Will you kindly allow me a small space in your valuable paper in insert a few lines about the condition of the roads between Lower Tarcutta, from the sqantters' Arms Hotel to a place known…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Green's Gunyah Railway. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
LATE on Wednesday night the Minister for Works gave notice that he would on Wednesday next refer the construction of the proposed railway from The Rock to Green's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. "This is true liberty, when freeborn [?] Having to advise the public, may speak free." Milton. Tuesday, July 6. City Railway Extension
THE report of the Royal Commission on City Railway Extension has just been published, and the conclusion arrived at is the most unsatisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intercolonial. [By Telegraph.] Sydney. Monday. the Sydney City Railway
The Mayor of Sydney has promised to preside at a public meeting to be held at the Town Hall on Friday night for the purpose of protesting against the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Railway Extension
APTER an agitation for the extension of the main trunk railway line of the colony into Sydney. covering about a quarter of a century, there seems to be now some chance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident. Man Killed on the Railway Line
IT is to be feared that the railway in this district will earn the title of a Juggernaut of Destruction of human life. The sad and painful circumstances of the loss of young…
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