The Railway Survey
THE survey is now complete to a point about half way between Pambula and the Yellow Pinch. There is a saving of over four miles on what is known as Robert…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
32 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 2
The Fatal Dive from Brooklyn Bridge
THE Standard's Correspondent at New York gives the following account of the fatal dive from Brooklyn Bridge:— "It had been announced for several days that a teacher of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Largest Bridge in the World
THE largest bridge in the world crosses Lake Ponchartrain, at New Orleans, and is twenty-two miles in length. It is trestlework, on piles, and is made of cypress wood…
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THE meeting held at Candelo was numerously attended, and was very enthus[?]stic on the subject of railway communication. The following arc the resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads and Bridges Department, Sydney, 22nd May, 1885
SIR.—The sum of £1500 has been paid into your Bank this day to the credit of the Municipal Council of Bega for Main Roads through Bega and I have the honor…
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At the switch five miles north of Little Rock a bullet went whizzing by the head of the engineer of the south-bound night passenger train and a cry came from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Railway Ghost
As there is a ghost in this story, according to all established rules it ought to commence with once upon a time," but as I am some what of an [?], not even such a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Railway in the Clouds. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph
SIR,—The first duty of a Government engaged in borrowing money for reproductive works is to see that they are reproductive on the whole; and their safest course, therefore, is to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Harlem Tramp. He Entertaing the Barkeeper with Some Original Sayings
"THAT's what I like to see— a good fire; it looks like blooming hospitality. But it would greatly add to my present hospitality if I had a little of the stuff that breaks up homes."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAILWAY Press To S[?] Children. (To the Editor of the B[?] Saturday.)
SIR.âSome twelve months ago Mr. McLaughlin innerved in the Legislative Assambly that off children should go free by the [?] railways to school, whether…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[A Terrible Railway Journey
OR THE 8.25 FROM EUSTON TO HOLYHEAD, [?] It was the second week in October last, and I had just returned from a delightful Continental campaign, when urgent family…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys' Column. The Sankaty Branch Road
IT seemed very strange to have the Sankaty Branch express train wizzing and shricking through the huckleberry pasture and south meadow, and almost running into their potato…
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