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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 23
On the above date Tickets at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all Stations for all Stations, available for return for distances under 15 miles for the day of issue only, and for distances over 15 miles for three days…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No goods will be received or delivered on the above day, at the Redfern Goods Shed, but arrangements will be made for the delivery of Live Stock and porishables up to 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the most extraordinary escapes from death ever recorded occurred last week is the tunnel between, Earl's-court and Stations of the Metropolitan District Railway. From…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is a common notion that a road formed with gentle undulations is easier for a horse to pass over than a dead level. I once knew a farmer who persisted in maintaining that he grew more corn upon a crooked farrow, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 133 →AN accident, which probably cannot he duplicated in the annals of railway disaster so far as the cause is concerned, occurred on Monday evening to the train running from Toowoomba to Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident, which probably cannot be duplicated in the annals of railway disaster to for as the cause is concerned, occurred on Monday evening to the train running from Toowoomba to Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Bridge, constructed by the famous family of engineers, the Rennies, just forty-three, years ago, has been discovered to be all too narrow to meet the requirements of the enormously increased and daily-increasing traffic between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—If the hint thrown out by Mr. Garrett, viz., "That the money for the roads should be at once granted, so that they may be repaired at a proper time of the year," be a forestalment of the business…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most extraordinary escapes from death ever recorded occurred last week in the tunnel between Earl's-court and North-end Stations of the Metropolitan District Railway." From…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →SIR,—Four lotters are before me which appear in three of your issues this week, all, more or less, referring to a matter of proposed road-making,in which I have taken some part and about which, it seem to me, misapprehension and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN this colony, as well as elsewhere, the attempt is often made to make a road without a good foundation. It is all to ne purpose—a pure waste of money. A bush or occupation road may be made with but little expense of course;…
Continued on Trove, page 164 →AN accident, which probably cannot be duplicated in annals of railway disaster to far as the cause is concerned, occurred on Monday evening to the train running from Toowoomba to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN accidont, which probably cannot be duplicated in the annals of railway disaster so far as the cause is concerned, occurred on Monday evening to the train running from Toowoomba to Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →THE Great Northern Railway of Queensland has its terminus at Rockhampton, and is almost complete to the Dawson River, a distance of 60 miles. As before stated, Queensland is no exception to…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →It is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most terrible railway disasters which has ever, happened in this country. On December 24, at 11.40, as express train bound for the north, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A dreadful railway accident, in which thirty-one pertons were killed and upwards of seventy wounded, occurred yesterday morning on the Great Western Railway line, a few hundred yards from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS will be received at the Storekeeper's Office, Redfern Station, until 12 noon en THURSDAY, February 18, from persons willing to convey about 450 tons of iron raile from the ships Cutty Sark and Baron Blantyre, now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS will be received at the Storekeeper's Office, Redfern Station, until 12 noon on THURSDAY, February l8, from persons willing to convey about 450 tons of iron rails from the ships Cutty Sark and Baron Blantyre, now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Offics until TUESDAY, the 23rd instant, at 11 o'clock a.m., from persons willing to contruct for the supply of Three Tons of COPPER INGOTS, to be delivered at the Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is quite impossible to say anything about road making without mentioning the name of Macadam. It is strange that it was left to the eighteenth century to produce a sensible road maker; but so it is, that before his time (omitting…
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