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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
528 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 27
THE Canadian railway scandal has reached a crisis. There have been rumours for a long while of a corrupt bargam between the Government on the one hand, and Sir Hugh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMONG the most important of what may be called private bills likely to be introduced this session, is one to incorporate a company under the name of the City and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first occurred at the Wigan station on the London and North-Weatem line, about a quarter-past 1 o'clock on August 2. The Scotch express train, consisting of two engines, twenty-two carriages, and three vans, left Euston…
Continued on Trove, page 403 →THIS important work, which connects Adelaide with the principal watering place in the colony, and supplies a desideratum which has long been felt, was successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An appalling accident happened at the Wigan railway-station, early on Saturday morning, August 2, to the tourist train from Euston to the north, it seems to have been of that extraordinary character which,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →WE have read of railway trains stopped and elundered in the wildest rogions of Spain, and even not very long a nince in certain parts of Italy, but is is not casy to think of this sert of audacious and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first sod of the Jordan Railway was tamed at Res[?]d, the capital of the province of Ghilau, near the Bay of E[?]zelle, on the Caspian Sea. One mile of the railway is completed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE have read of railway trains stopped and plundered in the wildest regions of Spain, and even not very long since in certain parts of Italy, but it is not easy to think of this cert of audacious and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SPECIAL despatch to the Chicago Evening Journal from Dcs Moines gives the following account of an attack on the train of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad:-" The train left Council Bluffs at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was currently rumoured this morning, and reported in the Age, that another warrant had been issued for the apprehension of Mount and Morris, on a charge of wilful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock a.m., on TUESDAY, the 14th Octobor, from persons willing to contract for Leasing from 1st November next to 31st December, 1876, the Refreshment Rooms at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first sod of the Persian Railway was turned at Reshd, the capital of the province of Ghilau, near the Bay of Enzelle, on the Caspian Sea. One mile of the railway is completed…
Continued on Trove, page 433 →A drapery store here failed to open this morning, and a report is current that one partner is gone away with a large sum of money in his possession…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government have promised to bring in a bill during the present Session of Parliament to authorise the constraction of cheap railways. The four tank engines, constructed by Messrs. Mort and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I am called by courtesy a road, but I am no such, thing. I beg to follow the example of the Rev. Dean of Sydney and other social evil reformers, who call "a spade a spade," and state most emphatically that I am not a road,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I think that a correspondent signing "* *" is scarcely well enough acquainted with his subject to be a reliable guide on that most difficult question "The Land," of which you have published his first essay. With evident…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The French barque Paraime, rom Manila to Maryborough, with & cargo of sugar, is on shore in Hervey's Bay. Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Now that there is a bill before the House to enable tramways being laid down in the streets of Sydney, it may not be uninteresting to your readers (especially those who think our thoroughfares too narrow) to know that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →[?] The escort left this morning, with 4602oz 13dwts gold and L129 in cash. The picnic to the Church of England day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock a.m., on TUESDAY, the 14th October, from persons willing to contrnct for Leasing from 1st November next to 31st December, 1876, the Refreshment Rooms at…
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