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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 23
SIR,—I have often thought how easy it would be to avoid the steep hill at the top of William-street, and also that on the other side of Macleay-street, leading down to Rushcutter Bay, by merely continuing Woolloomooloo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following account of Mr. M'Devitt's reception at Glenties reads more like "a royal progress" than anything else. When it became known that the Hon. E. M'Devitt had returned from Australia, in which colony he had…
Continued on Trove, page 138 →FIVE convicts, named Hawley, Fowler, M'Kenn, Sullivan, and Boyle, escaped from Sing Sing Prison, yesterday. The facts of the case, as obtained from eye-witnesses, are as follows: One of the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →ON the 8th of last month we directed attention to the inconvenience and unfairness of the state of things which has arisen in consequence of trust roads running through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking accident occurred on the Northeastern Railway. about half a mile from Templeton-street crossing, on Saturday night (the OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER reports), by which a man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the text and prayer of a petition, signed by 942 inhabitants, presented to the legislative Assembly in favour of railway extension into the city of Sydney: -"That a survey having recently been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—No subject has been more before the public than the difficulties of coaling at Newcastle, and the troubles of the harbour. Now, with your kind permission, I will draw attention to what should be considered by every inhabitant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE is hereby given that as the Wallsend Coal Company have intimated to the Government that they cannot allow passcngeu and goods trains to run over their branch railway after the 1st September next the trains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Permit me, through the columns of your paper, to complain of the way in which I have lost two or three hundred pounds by the mismanagement of our railways. On Monday, the 5th instant, I advised my agents, G. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following are the directors' report and balance-sheet of the Deniliquin and Mcama Railway Company, adopted at the meeting held at Deniliquin on Monday:— To the shareholders of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME discussion took place in the Assembly on Tuesday on the estimate of £50,000 for additional rolling-stock for the railways, Mr. CAMERON endeavouring to ascertain whether the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 176 →NOTICE is hereby given that as [?] Wallsend Coal Company have intimated to the Government that they cannot allow passenger and goods trains to run over their branch railway after the 1st September next, the trains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some alterations are contemplated in the Railway Time Table, but none of any very great importance. It has been found in the working of the Southern and Western railway lines necessary to give…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →A letter in the PILOT to-day states that the men employed in the Government Railway Yard intend striking work unless they are paid today the wages due to them for the month of July. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FATAL accident of a very sudden and terrible character occurred (the MELBOURNE reports) on the Williamstown line. A man named William Thompson, a boiler-maker, engaged at the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A correspondent of the NEWCASTLE PILOT [?] : "The threatened strike in the railway yard, through the Government keeping the men so long waiting for their wages after they became due, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Lambeth police court, John Neave, Annie Bol well, and Arthur Keen were brought up on remand, charged with having conspired together for the purpose of passing a large quantity of counters…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Now that the subject of brin[?]ing the railway into the northern and more crowded parts of Sydney is occupying attention, it will be well to take a glance at what is doing in other large centres of population towards…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →SRI,—In your issue of Wednesday, 11th instaut, in an article hended " Minerilogical Maps of the Coal Measu[?]s of New South Wales," is a statement calculated to mislead the public in respeet to the Illawarra coal-field, in which…
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