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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
189 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 10
The same paper says:—About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, one of the hay sheds on the farm attached to Walli House, near the Victoria Bridge, was discovered to be on fire. Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MOST dreadful accident, attended with loss of of life, occurred last night shortly before eight o'clock, on the Grand Trunk Railroad, about a mile and a-half west of the Detroit and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Maitland Mercury reports:—About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, 14th instant, one of the hay sheds on the farm attached to Walli House, near the Victoria Bridge, was discovered to be on fire. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SINCE tho acceptance, in November last, of Mr. Watkin[?] tender for Contract No. 4 on the Great Western Railway, no further works for railway extension havo been advertised for. The next contract to be let will be for an additional…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A MOST dreadful accident, attended with loss of of life, occurred last night shortly before eight o'clock, on the Grand Trunk Railroad, about a mile and a-half west of the Detroit and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SINCE the acceptance, in November last, of Mr. Watkins' tender for Contract No. 4 on the Great Western Railway, no further works for railway extension have been advertised for. The next contract to be let will be for an additional…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dear Sir,—In your capacity as lessee of the, Pittstreet tram conveyance, I beg to urge upon your immediate notice, the very objectionable practice which has hitherto existed, and now prevails, in allowing the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Unless the running of these tramway ears be placed under a proper. management some dreadful accidont must occur. On leaving the Redfern station, and vice versa the Circular Quay, they dash through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Honorable Sir— Now that our representatives have refused to inquire into the " Iron rail affair" and the "Menangle job," I am sure you will, having time on your hands, excuse me for calling your…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cry from Craigellachie, written after travelling for the first time to Innverness by it, last August. (From the Inverness Courier.) Land of Bens, and Glens, and Corries,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AMONG the bridges in England, whether constructed on the ancient model of perpendicular piers, with a flat stone or plank thrown across, or on the suspension, tubular, frame, lattice, skew, floating, flying, swing,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the most terrible railroad accidents, the particulars of which we have been called upon to record, occurred on Thursday evening about flight o'clock, on the Grand Trunk Railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 238 →THE Government of New Zealand are adopting the policy of the older Australian colonies, in constructing from the public purse, railway lines, which will not only prove a good investment for capital, but will be the most active agency in inducing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—In several of the communications forwarded to you by your correspondent at Emu Plains, I have observed an evident incination to extol the present contractors for the works at the bridge, and this, too, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Last evening I was one of the passsengers by the carf appointed to meet the 7 o'clock train, and imagine by astonihsment at finding on arrival at the station that the train had left some few minutes, and that there would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE only work for railway extension that has been contracted for during the past month is the completion of the bridge across the Hunter at Singleton. This structure was first contracted for in August, 1862, and was to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The thing of which Mr. Hurford complains in your issue of to-day has occurred before—perhaps often. On a recent occ asion —I think on Saturday, the 15th instant—I arrived at the terminus just in time to see the train start. The tramway car…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE only work for railway extension that has been contracted for during the past month is the bridge across the Hunter at Singleton. This structure was first contracted for in August, 1862, and was to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →We take the following particulars of the above acoident, a slight notice of which has appeared in our telegraphic columns, from the S. A. Advertiser of the 15th instant:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE are indebted to the Commissioner for Railways for the following statement of the passenger receipts upon the Southern, Western, and Windsor and Richmond Railways, during the six days commencing with Good Friday. It…
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