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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
262 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 14
AT the celebration of the extension of the Northern Railway in South Australia his Excellency said—Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen—I have great pleasure in tulfilling the desire of the Chairman that I should offer to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE agitation for the extension of the Great Southern Railway from Goulburn, via Yass to tho Murray, continues. Demonstrations in favour of immediate extension have been held in various Southern townships, and there appears to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE contract' for the West Maitland Bridge has been completed during the month; and the bridge will be ready for traffic so soon as the approaches shall be finished. Fourteen globe lamps have been fixed, one on each pier,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. SHIELL, Coroner for the police district of Sydney, held an inquiry yesterday, at noon, on the body of a man named William Marks, whose body was then lying at the Benevolent Asylum. The evidence brought forward at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE are glad to be in a position to state that our surmises with respect to the collision on the Wallsond line, briefly reported in our last issue, turned out to be correct, the accident, though by no means a trifling one, not being of such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday evening, about eighteen minutes to 8 o'clock, an accident of a very terrible character occured at the Newtown Railway Station. A goods train proceeding up country was shunted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE great flood of '67, which swept away the old wooden bridge over the Macquarie, at Bathurst, will probably be regarded as one of the most disastrous events which have occurred in the Bathurst, as well as in the Hawkesbury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. SHIELL, Coroner for the polios district of Sydney, held an inquiry on Thursday, at noon, on the body of K man Darned William Marks, whose body was then lying at the Benevolent Asylum. The evidence brought forward at the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE are glad to be in a position to stats that our surmises with respect to the collision on the Wallsend line, briefly, reported in our last issue, turned out to be correct, the accident, thought by no means a trifling one, not being of such…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →YASS, Gundagai, and Wagga Wagga have recently spoken, out on the railway question. Yass is pretty sure to got the Southern line extended thereto from Goulburn, and we hear it rumoured that there is little prospect of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE great flood of '67, which swept away the old wooden bridge over the Macquarie, at Bathurst, will probably be regarded as one of the most disastrous events which have occurred in the Bathurst districts. The loss of the old bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →YASS, Gundogai, and Wagga Wagga have recently spoken out on the railway question. Yass is pretty sure to get the Southern line extended thereto from Goulbura, and we hear it rumoured that there is little prospect of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—I am anxious to bring under the consideration of the colonists of New South Wales the great importance of railway extension into the interior, and more especially the necessity which exists for pushing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Recently the inhabitants of Parramatta-street had their hopes raised very high with the expectations of having the above bridge widened; but, alas, that prospect appears to turn out only visionary, which is to be very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"THE ore raised from the mine is of excellent quality, but there are no means whatever of getting it to market;" "the payment of dividends would have commenced long ere this but for the insuperable difficulty of getting the produce to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Train has been for some time past at Omaha. He was not amongst those who assembled to celebrate the opening of the Pacific Railroad, but he has been making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A new time table for the Southern and Western lines has been published and comes into operation to-day. Trains are to leave Sydney daily as follows:— For Parramatta junction (goods and pass.) at 5 80…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE great flood of '67, which [?]wept away the old wooden bridge over the Macquarie, at Bathurst, will probably b[?] regarded as one of the most disastrous events which have occurred in the Bathurst district. The loss of the old bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →STEADY progress is being made with the works in hand on the western and northern extensions. On contract No. 5 on the Great Western line, the water supply on the Zigzag has been completed; and the Mudgee Road approach,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CORRESPONDENT of an American paper writes under date Washington, July 2:—I have just received from Richmond, Va., the following account of an appalling disaster that occurred about 4 o'clock this afternoon, upon the occasion…
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