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Railways, roads & transport, 1873

528 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 27

Mr. De Beaker's Sketch Design to Connect the Circular Quay with the Redfern Railway Station

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 25 October 1873 · page 21

THE reasons for proposing this work are, 1st,—The Circular Quay has long become the established point of discharge, and for the outward loading of all the large…

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Telegrams This Day Bathurst Circuit Court. the Orange Road Murder. Bazaar at Bathurst. Murder at Gundagai. Serious Accident to Mr. Goyder. Bathurst

Evening News · Monday 27 October 1873 · page 2

We had a beautiful rain yesterday, but mors is needed. In the matter of the application of Mr. Buchanan; to have the venue of Jervis's trial…

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Liquor Traffic at Railway Stations, to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 October 1873 · page 3

SIR,—At the meeting held in the Temperance Hall on Friday evening last, I was anxious to cite a few facts illustrative of the great danger to life and property attending the sale of intoxicating drinks at the railway…

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An Excursion Train Cut in Two. Three Persons Killed and Forty Injured

Empire · Tuesday 28 October 1873 · page 3

ANOTHER fearful railway collision happened this morning, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured—it is feares fatally The accident—if it can so be called, for a due attention…

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Telegrams This Day the Murder of Moggeridge.—change of Venue. Judge Hargrave and the "Independent." Attempted Violation and Suicide at Ballan. the Melbourne Racecourse. Escape of Boys From a Watchhouse. Latest Commercial. Shorthorn Sales at Melbourne. Opening of the Wangaratta Railway. the Melbourne Tan. Bank Dividends. Failure of Late Crops in South Australia. &c., &c. &c. BATHURST. Monday 4 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 28 October 1873 · page 2

Jackey, the Queensland aboriginal charged with the murder of Howell and Pullbrook, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. Tuesday…

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Railway Accomodation. Deputation to the Minister for Works

Evening News · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning a deputation waited upon the Hon.[?]bhn Sutherland (Minister for Works) at the Colonial Secretary's office, respecting the extension of the railway into the city, and increased accomodation along…

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Extension of the Railway Into the City

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 3

YESTERDAY forenoon, an influential deputation waited upon the Colonial Secretary and the Minister for Works, at the office of the Colonial Secretary, in order to urge upon the Government the necessity of extending the railway into…

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Railway Acc Modation. Deputation to the Minister for Works

Empire · Wednesday 29 October 1873 · page 3

YESTERDAY morning a deputation waited upon the Hon. John Sutherland (Minister for Works), at the Colonial Secretary's office, respecting the extension ot the railway into the city, and increased accomodation along…

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An Excursion Train Out in Two. Three Persons Killed and Forty Injured

Evening News · Thursday 30 October 1873 · page 3

ANOTHER fearful railway collision happened this morning, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured—it is feared fatally. The accident—if it can so be called, for a due attention…

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Railway Accommodation. To the Editor of the Evening News

Evening News · Friday 31 October 1873 · page 2

SIR,—You will confer [?]vour, by allowing me through the columns of your valuable paper, to correct a misstatement make by the Colonial Secreatary to the deputation, on Tuesday last viz., "that the terminus…

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Telegrams This Day Attempted Murder and Suicide at Orange. Bathurst Circuit Court. the Woolbrokers of Melbourne. the New Victorian Police Bill. the New Graving Dock. the Victorian Railway Bill. Expected Prorogation of Parliament. Departure of the Bangalore. the Melbourne Press and the Secretary of the V.R.C. No Racing Reports to Be Published in the Journals. Latest Mining and Commercial, &C., &C., &C. Orange

Evening News · Friday 31 October 1873 · page 2

The victim of the shooting case is Elizabeth Thompson, a widow, who lived with a man named Dando for some years, in Melbourne. Two months ago they came to Sydney,…

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The South Coast Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1873 · page 3

THE following is a copy of the memorial which has been signed, we understand, by 2147 persons, and which is to be presented to-day to the Premier by the deputation appointed to wait on him at 11 o'clock this morning:—…

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Railway Ex[?]n

Empire · Friday 31 October 1873 · page 4

AN important motion appears on the business paper of the Legislative Assembly with respect to a wide and comprehensive system of railway extension. Mr. FORSTER has…

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An Excursion Train Cut in Two

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 23

THREE PERSONS KILLED AND FORTY INJURED. ANOTHER fearful railway coll[?]ion happened this morni[?]g, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured—lt is feared fatally…

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Railway Extension to the Illawarra District

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 7

A LARGE and influential deputation of gentlemen interested in the construction of a line of railway to connect the metropolis with the Illawarra district had an interview with the Colonial Secretary yesterday, to bring under his…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 561

A fearful railway collision happened by which three persons have Just their lives, and many have been injured —some it is feared fatally. The accident—if it can be so called, for a due attention to the regulations would in all…

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Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway

Empire · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 3

A NUMEROUS and influential deputation waited upon the Hon. [?] Parkes (Premier and Colonial Secretary), at bi office, yesterday morning, to present to his a memorial signed [?] 2 47 person, praying for the…

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Plan for Extension of the Railway to the Circular Quay. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 4

SIR,—On leading, in last Wednesday's Evening News, the report of the deputation that waited on the Minister for work's at the Colonial Secretary's office, for the purpose of getting an extension of the present railway…

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Plan for Extension of the Railway to the Circular Quay. To the Editor of the Evening News

Evening News · Monday 3 November 1873 · page 3

SIR,—On leading, in last Wednesday's Evening News, the report of the deputation that waited on the Minister for Works, at the Colonial Secretary's office, for the purpose of getting an extension of the present railway…

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Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 November 1873 · page 8

Since the departure of the last mail the tender of Mr. W. Mason, junior, has been accepted for contracts nine and ten of the Great Western Railway, which will take the line from its present terminus into Bathurst. The amount…

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