The Ball at the Victoria Railways Goods Shed
The ball in the new railway goods shed, at Spencer-street, Melbourne, to commemorate its opening, came off on the 23rd of February, proving a most…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1872
293 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 15
Opening of the Great Northern Railway to Murrurundi. [From a Correspondent.] April 5
THE extension of the Great Northern lino of railway from Scone to Murrurundi was opened yesterday [?] his Excellency the Administrator of the Govornment, and was the occasion of general enjoyment…
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A PASSENGER train which left Manchester for Oldham a few days ago narrowly escaped a serious collision. Between Middleton junction and Werneth stations there is a very steep gradient. A short…
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THE following important case was heard before the Mudgee Police Court on Friday, the 5th instant, the report of which we abridge from the Western Post:— The following is a copy of the summons issued in the…
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The extension of the Western line will be opened to Locke's Platform (hitherto known as Dirty Swamp), nineteen miles beyond Rydal, on Monday. The Commissioner for Railways (the Hon. James Byrnes) and the Engineer-in-Chief…
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THE Northern line has been so far completed as to allow of its being opened to Murrurundi, to which point contracts have been let. The surveys have been proceeded with to-wards Armidale, but they have not been completed, and it…
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Platf[?]s only. The trains do not stop at these unless required. Notice should be given to the guard at the previous stopping station. N.B.—On Saturdays, cheap fares, at one penny per mile second…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Light Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—As the idea that any railroad of a lighter construetion and less cost than those now in formation in the colony could be [?] has always been pooh-poohed by the eagacious folks who have, fortunately for themselves,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Accident Near Cannes
THE terrible accident on the railway that runs along the shore of the Mediterranean, parallel with the Corniche road, from Marseilles to Mentone, and thence on to the Riviera of Genoa, has excited the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opening of the Extension of the Great Western Railway. (From the Bathurst Times.)
ON Saturday last a Ministerial party, accompanied by a large circle of friends, left the Redfe[?] railway station at 6 a.m., in a special train, for the purpose of opening a further extension of the Great Western Railway, viz., to…
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ON one or two occasions recently we hare inferred to the revived project of building a railway across the Anstralian coatinent from South to North. We say the 'revived'…
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THE Adelaide project for the construction of a trans[?] continental line of railway from Port Augusta to Port Darwin is assuming a more and more definite form and when we consider the unexpected enterprise with…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Australian Town & Country Journal Sydney, Saturday, April 27, 1872. Cheap Railway Construction
WE desire to call the particular attention of our readers to a very interesting paper on the Festiniog Railway, which will be found in page 529 of this isiue, The facts…
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So much has at different times been written concerning the celebrated Festiniog Railway that there are probably but few who take an interest in such matters, who are not familiar with the general characteristics…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Trial of Railway Locomotives. (Frome the Times, February 5.)
ON Friday, the 2nd Februar), some experiments to determine the traction power of a Fairlie double bogie locomotive engine, were made near Sheffield, in the presence of about forty gentlemen specuilly…
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I FELL On my nose at midnight, As the clerks were strutting their hour, And the ground rolled in the city And tossed with awful pow'r…
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