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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
228 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 12
A fearful railway accident occurred at Bray on the 9th August. As the up-train from Enniscorthy due at Bray at 9.30 was proceeding round the head the engine and two carriages got off the line at one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the early part of to-day rumours of a very exciting nature prevailed throughout the city, regarding an accident which was stated to have occurred on the line at the dangerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr E. Coberoft's b h Pagainal. 4 yers... 8 12 W. Ruddle's b g Duke of Athol, aged... 8 10 J. Barnard's b g Reindeer, aged... 8 5 J. Chaafe ns br c Emerald, 4 yrs... 7 9…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the date of out last Summary the railway policy of the present Government was before Parliament, and only a few hours before we went to press on that occasion the Assembly had determined by a majority of 32 to 23 to go…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I wish to bring under notice through the columns of your valuable journal, a serious grievance that a large number of industrious persons residing along the railway line, who are engaged in preouring sawn timber and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mary Nicholls (on bail) was indicted for having, on December 24th, 1866, at Bishop's Bridge, unlawfully and maliciously administered fifty grains of strychnine to Terence O'Brien , also, that she mixed fifty grains of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Paganini with eight stone twelve Will hardly get a place, And Duke or Athol two pounds less, Can never win the Race…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BESIDES the injuries we have already described under the terms "curb" and "broken down," there are others of frequent occurrence affecting ligaments and tendons in various parts of the body. The fibrous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE line of railway which has been in the course of construction for the last eighteen months over this pass, and which follows in the main the great road of the First Napoleon, was successfully traversed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been requested to publish the following bill:— Whereas by the Act of Council eighteen Victoria number fourteen the public roads contained in Schedules A and B hereto annexed were placed in trust and the Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is the draft of a bill which, it is intended to bring before Parliament, to authorise the transfer of the Randwick and Coogee Road to the Municipal Council of Sydney:-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,— A correspondent in to-day's Herald, under the signature "Urana," says of the Black Wattle Swamp nuisance that "he has never experienced any stench so disgusting or pestilential."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE line of railway which has been in the course of construction for the last eighteen months over this pass, and which follows in the main the great road of the First Napoleon, was successfully traversed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the works connected with Blackfriars-bridge slowly advance it is found that the very causes which hastened the decay of the old structure are precisely those which are hindering the completion of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PECULIARLY shocking murder was committed on the morning of September 3. For some time past a man named Louis Bordier, aged 35, a native of Bordeaux, and by trade a currier, has resided at No. 3, Millstead-terr[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I am glad to observe that a change in onr suburban railway programme has at length been determined on by the Government. Our railway authorities have been slow to believe all that the prophets told them concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday Dr. Hardwicks, Deputy-Coroner, opened an inquiry at the Railway Hotel, Colney hatch, on the bodies of the three children who were knocked down and killed by an express train, near the Colney batch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The two Alpine railways, the one through and the other over Mont Cenis are both bold engineering projects, but the last named exhibits, if it may be said without offence, the smartest jockey-craft. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disaster,which has now to be reported as a double one, and has resulted already in the deaths of five men besides the slaughter of a considerable number of cattle and sheep, took place on Monday on the Midland…
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