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Railways, roads & transport, 1874

411 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 21

Tales. Ninety-Three. Tale Founded on the French Revolution of 1793. [The right of publication has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Part the Third.—in Vendee. Book the First. Chapter Xii.—the Bridge-castle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1874 · page 89

ON the opposite side from the breach a atone bridge was connected with the tower, hating three arches still in almost perfect preservation. This bridge had supported a building of which some fragments…

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Terriole Collision, on the Geat Western Railway

Evening News · Thursday 23 July 1874 · page 3

A terrible railway collision occurred at the Great Western station at Merthyr on the afternoon of May 16, by which fifty-two persons were injured, several of them severely. For about two…

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Further Extracts From Papers by the Mail. Terrible Collision on the Geat Western Railway

Empire · Friday 24 July 1874 · page 3

A terrible railway collision occurred at the Great Western station at Merthyr on the afternoon of May 16, by which fifty-two persons were injured, several of them severely. For about two…

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The Bawden Bridge, at Grafton

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 7

FOR a sketch of this bridge, which was named and opened with great ceremony on Easter Monday last, we are indebted to Mr. F. A. Franklin, Hoad Superintendent, under…

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Opening of the Victoria-bridge, Brisbane, Queensland

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 12

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Opening of the Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 7

MONDAY, 15th June, was a great day in Queensland annals, the new bridge across the Brisbane having been officially opened by His Excellency the Governor, with great…

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Serious Railway Collision

Evening News · Monday 27 July 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

An alarming collision, by which several persons were injured, occurred at the west end of Shildon. Tunnel, on the Darlington section of the North eastern Railway. An engine came through the…

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Deniliquin and Moama Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 July 1874 · page 5

WITH reference to the proposals of the directors of this company the Argus says:- "The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company is struggling into existence, and the directors now think…

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The Lane Cove Road. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 July 1874 · page 6

SIR,—I desire, through the medium of your columns, to draw public attention to the hardships now endured by the residents of the North Willoughby and Lane Cove districts through the disgraceful state of the main road within the…

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From San Francisco to New York, by the Overland Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 July 1874 · page 3

HAVING recently done the great railway journey from San Francisco to New York, I send some jottings from my journal that may be of service to the intending traveller, and that may not be uninteresting to…

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Railway Extension. (From the Evening News.)

Empire · Thursday 30 July 1874 · page 4

TENDERS have recently been accepted for the completion of some two hundred miles railway extension North-west and South, and an additional section will be let in a…

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Reservation of Land for Railway Purposes. The Commissioner for Railways to the Under Secretary for Lands. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 19th May, 1873

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 July 1874 · page 7

Sir,—I have the honour to request that you will be good enough to cause to be temporarily reserved from sale and selection, all the land for four miles in width on each side of the trial lines as laid out and staked for the proposed…

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Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 July 1874 · page 7

THE following returns respecting trial surveys, ordered by the Minister for Works, reports on their progross by Mr. Whitton, and correspondence respecting the reservation of land for railway purposes, were laid before Parliament on…

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The Victoria Bridge, Brisbane

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 137

THE illustration given herewith affords a view of the New Bridge across the Brisbane River, Queensland. It was I constructed from designs by Messrs. Robinson and I'Anson, of Darlington, England, and the work carried out under the…

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The Rights of Railway Travellers

Evening News · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

IN the Preston County Court, on May 8, Mr. R. Marshall, a timber merchant at Blackpool, sued the Lancashire and Yorkhant Railway Company, to recover the sum of 7s for cab-hire and expenses…

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Tramway Engines

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 12

An English journal says that a very interesting trial took place on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, of a tramway engine, constructed by the Yorkshire Engine Company…

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Serious Railway Collision

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 27

An alarming collision, by which several persons were injured, occurred at the west end of Shildon Tunnel, on the Darlington section of the North eastern Railway. An engine came through…

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Terrible Collision on the Great Western Railway

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 27

A terrible railway collision occurred at the Great Western station at Merthyr on the afternoon of May 16, by which fifty-two persons were injured, several of them severely. For about two…

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