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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 20
EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at and to all stations, available for distances not exceeding fifty miles, three days; over fifty miles, one week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is not generally known that the piece of land eastward of the Sydney University, extending to the Newtown Read, and containing about twenty-five acres, has been set apart for the purpose of public recreation and enjoyment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN exhibition of models illustrating the street tramway system is on view at 35, Parliament-street, Westminster. It is promoted by the Metropolitan Street Tramways Company, with the object of illustrating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The unfortunate M. Alexandra Lubanski, who has been murdered in a railway carriage on the Lyons and Mediterranean railway, was the eldest son of a doctor at Nice. When the train arrived at Montelimart, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE observe that the slow progress of the Western Railway works has again formed the subject of discussion in the Assembly, though without leading to any other result than a general grumble. It seems, however, to be the fashion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SURPRISE and apprehension were excited to a considerable extent by a rumour which was circulated yesterday morning, just as people were setting out on their holiday excursions, to the effect that there had been a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Will you kindly allow me the use of your columns to briefly draw attention to the way in which the Goulburn Volunteers were treated by the Railway authorities on the occasion of their late visit to Sydney. The majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALDERMAN BOYD said the motion standing in his name was one about which there had been some rough talk; but he had still thought it necessary to bring it forward. He considered that the Press had insulted the Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PROGRESS breeds wants. As one need is provided for a fresh need is born. So railways, invented to facilitate the operations of commerce and manufacture, have in their turn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CONTEMPORARY who, in the most real and serious meaning of the word, is great at statistics and the inferences derivable from them, reminds us of the large number of ocean-telegraph companies which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The nature of my business frequently requires me to send my vehicles in various directions towards the suburbs of this city, and in many instances to very long distances in the day; but notwithstanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Will you kindly allow me, through your columns to call the attention of the authorities to the almost impassable state of the entrance to the goods station in this town. Both the entrance and the road leading to it are now in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE observe that the slow progress of the Western Railway works has again formed the subject of discussion in the Assembly, though without leading to any other result than a general grumble. It seems, however, to be the fashion…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flour (fine) ton of 2000lb L13, seconds L10 to L11; brun, per bushel, 1s 2d to 1s 4d; milch cows, L3 7s 6d to L9; calves, 7s 6d to L1 13s; lambs, 7s 3d to 9s; pigs (live), 11s 6d to L1 18s; ditto (dead), per lb, 3d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A DEPUTATION consisting of H. Moses and A. Dight, Esqrs., M.L.A., and Messrs. Bowman and Bedwell, had an interview with the Secretary for Works, yesterday morning, for the purpose of presenting a petition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT first sight nothing appears so improbable as that the application of mechanical force obliquely to the purpose of ocean steam propulsion, or to any other purpose, should be superior in its advantages and effects to the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE Wallerawang railway station, the present, terminus of the Sydney and Bathurst line is a comfortable and handsome building of creamcoloured freestone, obtained from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following letter to the editor of the Times on the subject of tramways will be read with interest:— "Sir,—Since I last wrote you I have received a few lines from a shareholder in the Metropolitan Railway…
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