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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1875

442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 23

Railway Extension to the City

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 4

A plan for the extension of the railway into tas city, which vu devised by Dr. John Solomon, J.P., is being submitted for public inspection, and it is said that so far it has met with general approval. Mr…

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Railway Works at Newcastle

Evening News · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 8

RAILWAY works of consideable magnitude and importance are now in progress at Newcastle. They are designed with the view to increase the coal shipping facilities of the port, and to relieve…

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The Railway Buses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 2

SIR,—The frequent irregularity of the railway 'buses has become a source of great inconvenience to railway passengers. I am a daily passenger, and use the omnibus (when I can get it) once a day to and from the city. I…

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Railway Train Precipitated Into a River Great Loss of Life

Evening News · Friday 17 September 1875 · page 2

Panama, August 10.-One of the most terrible railroad accidents that aver happened in Chile occurred recently on the Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. As a train from Valparaiso was passing…

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Road Making. (To the Editor of the Cumberland Mercury.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 3

SIR,—With reference to the remarks which fell from my friends ion road making, I think that they know as much about road making, as the roads do about them; and with all respect to…

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Our Railways

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 1

It is scarcely credible that the age of railway loomotives does not date back beyond the present generation. Yet it was not till the 15th September, 1830, that GEORGE STEPHENSON'S famous engine, the "Rocket,"…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Southern Western and Richmond Railways. Bathurst Races, 22nd and 23rd SEPTEMBER

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1875 · page 6

For the convenience of persons wishing to attend the Bathurst Races, Excursino Tickets, t a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations to Kelso, on the 21st instant, available for return for one week…

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New Railway Carriages

Evening News · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 4

Apropos of the commondations which have sppeared in the and other papers, of the victorian commissioner for Railways for his intended re-modelling of the passenger cariiages used on the line in that…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Railways. Bathurst Races, 22nd and 23rd SEPTEMBER

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 8

For the convenience of persons wishing to attend the Bathurst Races, Excursion Tickets, at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations to Kolso, on the 21st instant, availbale for return for one week…

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Railway Extension into the city

Evening News · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2
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Government Notices. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Railway. Goulburn Races, 29th and 30th September

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 September 1875 · page 8

For the convenience of those persons wishing to attend the above Races, NOTICE is hereby given that Excursion Tickets at a single fare for the double journey will be issued on the 28th September from all stations to Goulburn…

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Vale Road Bazaar

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 13

THE Bathurst Independent reports :—The bazaar in aid of the Convent of St. Joseph's, Vale Read, was concluded by an auction sale on Saturday last. The bazaar was well attended…

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Railway Train Precipitated Into a River—great Loss of Life

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 27

Panama, August 10.—One of the most terrible railroad accidents that eyer happened in Chile occurred recently on the Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. As a train ironi Valparaiso was passing…

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The Railway Into the City

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 400

A DEPUTATION from Newtown and the adjoining districts waited upon the MINISTER FOR WORKS, on Tuesday, to urge upon his notice the question of railway extension into the heart of the city. Mr. LACKEY,…

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Railway Extension Into the City

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 403

A DEPUTATION, representing the people of Newtown and the adjacent districts, waited upon the Minister for Works (the Hon. John Lackey) on Tuesday, with the view of urging upon the Government the desirableness of extending…

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Railway Extension Into the City. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 3

SIR,—As to the extension of the railway into the city or more properly speaking, to an ultimate terminus—the Cimulnr Quay—from which it ought originally to have started, especially as it was from near this spot, at…

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Terrible Railway Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 29 September 1875 · page 5

Panama. August 10. One of the most terrible railroad accidents that has ever happened in Chile occurred recently on the santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. As a train from Valparaiso was pasting…

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Government Notices. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Railway. Goulburn Races, 29th and 30th September

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1875 · page 6

For the convenience of those persons wishing to attend the above Races, NOTICE is hereby given that [?]rsion Tickets at a single fare for the double journey will be issued on [?] 28th September from all stations to Goulburn…

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Railway Extension. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 October 1875 · page 3

SIR,—The utility of railways in opening up and [?]veloping the resources of a country is a thing surely now-a-days that cannot readily be doubted; no, not even by its bittere[?] enemies, or yet the greatest of living sceptics. The day…

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