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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
411 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 21
THE greatest gala day we have ever witnessed was Thursday last, upon the occasion of the opening of the bridge over the Hawkesbury, connecting the agricultural district of Wilberforce with the town of Windsor. The day was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Welters Railway line, near the Blue Mountain about 1 o'clock yesterday. It appears an gine driver to a goods train, named Charles Baggs, aged twenty-seven, had got on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANOTHER of those dreadful accidents, which, we regret to say, are becoming common on the Great Northern Line in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, occurred shortly before 9 o'clock on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Western Railway line, near the Blue Mountains, about 1 o'clock on Friday. It appears an engine driver to a goods train, named Charles Baggs, aged twenty-seven, had got on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—A good deal of correspondence has lately appeared in the columns of the Herald in reference to the present state of the main roads in the beautiful and rapidly improving suburb of Marrickville. As a frequent traveller along…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As we have criticised the tone of our Victorian contemporary in this matter, we reprint its latest explanation, regretting, however, that it still fails to appreciate the distinction between the passage of rolling stock from one line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Several drunkards were brought before the Court and fined. Samuel Jobson, for being drunk and disorderly in the public [?] was ordered to pay a fine of 20s, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MAN, named Charles Braggs, met with a painful accident on the Western line about 10 o'olock on Saturday, 22nd instant, at a place called Woodford's platform…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VERY serious accident occurred yestesday afternoon, on the Great Southern Railway, at Whiteheads Bank, about a mile and a bnlf on the Goulburn side of Sutton Forest station, through a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On inquiry at the Infirmary last night into the condition of the men injured on the occassion of the railway accident at Whitehead's Bank, we were in formed that they were programing more favourably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation, consisting of Dr. Jones, Mr. A. N. Gilbert, Mr. Waring (directors of the company), and Mr. Campbell (the secretary), had an interview with the Premier, at Bignell's Royal Hotel, Deniliquin, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR telegraphic column gives information of another fatal railway accident at Newcastle. The frequency of these accidents on the Great Northern Railway is becoming alarming. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Goulburn Herald of Wednesday gives the following report of the accident:—About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the ballast-train was coming up the gradient of 1 in 33, about…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →I PRESUME many of your readers, as well as the general public, are not sufficiently interested in the above heading to bestow a passing thought upon the locality mentioned; but…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A deputation, consisting of Dr. Jones, Mr. A. N. Gilbert, Mr. Waring (directors of the company), and Mr. Campbell (the secretary), had an interview with the Premier, at Bignell's Royal Hotel, Deniliquin, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 303 →YESTERDAY (Friday) afternoon; about half-past 5 o'clock, there was another accident on the Great Northern Railway line, at Newcastle. A man named James Fuller, in the employ of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Premier [?] at daylight on Saturday morning, and arrived [?] the afternoon. He was met three or four miles [?] town by the Mayor and principal inhabitants of the [?] and among the procession of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE frequency with which fatal or serious accidents on the railway at Neweastle are occurring, is becoming alarming, and some means to preventtheir recurrence are urgently…
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