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South Coast · Railways, roads & transport
28 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
ELECTRICITY is gradually but steadily replacing gas and petroleum for lighting purposes and is now oven beginning to replace steam as motive power. But few electric railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Sydney papers report that on Friday last Dr. Tarrant and Mr. Humphery, Ms.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Hon. the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the course of a vigorous article on the North Shore " Garbett" Bridge swindle the Farmer and Deafer says:— Taking higher ground, we find that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR MILES WOODGATE had acted impulsively in determining to leave the country rather than marry the girl he loved, but he had strong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →These were the thoughts that occupied Sir Miles Woodgate as he drove from his beautiful home, leaving it perhaps for ever, and caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How is the boy this morning ? Why do you shake your head! Ah! I can see what's happened— There's a screen drawn round the bed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON some of the Western roads they attach a passenger car to a freight train and call it "mixed." It isn't in order of things that such trains should travel very rapidly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Well? You, with a purse full of sovereigns, find unlimited credit at your banker's, can afford to be moral; but it is devilish hard for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the bill introduced into the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Stuart to declare legal the employment of steam motors on tramways constructed, worked, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS bridge is one of the great feats of engineering performed by American engincers. It cost l5,000,000 dol, exclusive of the land, purchased, which cost some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW York, May 24.—The eighth wonder of the world, eighth in point of time, but first in point of significance, was to-day dedicated to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As it is understood that the transit of goods across the Murray by rail will not be provided for until the completion of the permanent iron bridge, the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE American Express of April 1 describes, two elegant and novel cars constructed at Troy, N.Y., to the order of the New South Wales Government for use on the overland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The passengers by tHe night train to Dieppe, a night or two ago, witnessed a most exciting struggle. In 1881 Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, the electrician, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the past month or two the trial survey of the proposed extension of the coast railway, Kiama to Shoalhaven and Jervis Bay, has been progressing apace under Mr. Surveyor Hardie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the last meeting of the Kiama Council (as reported by the Independent), Alderman Cole said he had a matter of very great importance to bring before the Council. It was well known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—A meeting was held at the schoolhouse, Towamba, on 28th July, 1883, to petition the Minister for Works for a grant of £1000 to be expended on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It is not my intention to reply to the writer of the letter that appeared in a late issue on the above subject, at the same time I cannot conceal my surprise that your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—As a resident of Towamba, and one deeply interested in the improvement of our menus of communication with the seaport, I regret to see the tone that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A NEW motor has been discovered which, it is claimed, will supersede steam. The material from which the energy is generated is bisulphide of carbon, which is utilized as a…
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