The Railway Refreshment Rooms
Evening News · Thursday 27 May 1875 · page 2
The case against Jobs Louis Castner, holder of the license for the railway refreshment rooms, was finally heard and decided upon by the bench of magistrates at the Central Police Court yesterday…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 May 1875 · page 2
SIR,—May I beg to propose to the Government, through the medium of your columns, that they might, with great advantage to suburban inhabitants, start the 5 p.m. train on Sundays later. Many people from the suburbs wish to…
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Sydney Punch · Friday 28 May 1875 · page 5
Two of the mightest powers which science has given to the world have come into collision, and a more potent engine than either of them (the Press), is endeavouring to settle their differences. Why cannot the two continue to pull and be pulled in amity together when…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 19
OUR engraving shows a footbridge over the Bremer River, one mile east of Kanmantoo, South Australia, and is wellknown to many of our South Australian readers, the locality being close to the main road leading from…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 7
About £236,Q0G of the Great Northern Railway vote is, we observe, still unexpended, and available for the further construction of our line Which should enable Mr. Ballard to…
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Evening News · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 4
A return showing the number and nature of accidents, and the injuries to life and limb, that have occurred on the Great Southern, Western, and Northern Railways, from 1865 to 30th April, 1875,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 683
SIR.—It has been suggested, and even urged upon me, by others, that I should review the engrossing subject of the Illawarra railway and the various letters which have appeared in the newspapers on this subject. If allowed to…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 7
IN view of the great interest manifested in Sydney on the subject of an Underground Railway to connect the Circular Quay with the Redfern Terminus, we republish in this issue an article extracted from an English magazine—…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 21
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 13
THOSE who are petitioning against the sale of liquors at railway stations in New South Wales, would probably like to know how the system works in Queensland. A gentleman who is now visiting…
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Evening News · Monday 31 May 1875 · page 2
Tomorrow a new time-table for the running of the trains on the Great Northern Railway will come into force: the time table will be issued in sheet and pamphlet form, for the convenience of the public, who may…
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Evening News · Wednesday 2 June 1875 · page 2
This morning, at the Central Police Court, the licence of Railway Refreshment-room, hitherto held by Mr. John Lewis Catsner, was cancelled by the consent of the holder. On the 24th of March last, it…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1875 · page 2
The Commissioner for Railways, appointed by Act of Council, 22 Victoria No. 19. hereby gives notice that his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council deems it expediant to make and complete a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliamentary Papers. Railway Rails and Iron
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1875 · page 3
THE following reports on quality of the railway mils supplied by the Park Gata Iron Company, and upon iron castings &c., have been ordered by the Legislative Asscmbly to be printed. They are addressed to the…
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Evening News · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 4
An adjourned public meeting of the residents of Willoughby and Gordon, was held on Wednesday evening, in the Bush Mission Chapel, Lane Cove Road. The object of the meeting was to make arrangements…
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Evening News · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 4
It is said that the Engineer in Chief has proposed a scheme to the Government for bringing the railway from its present terminal at Redfern into the heart of the city. The proposed extension, if Mr…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 7
We understand that the Engineer-in-Chief for Railways has completed a scheme for bringing the railway into the city, and we hope that, in the interests not only of Sydney and its suburbs but of the whole colony, the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 719
Omaha, April 26.—The high water which for several days past has delayed the trains on the Union Pacific Railroad has finally become so high that travel is entirely suspended between Laramie and Ogden. The water is 6 feet…
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Evening News · Monday 7 June 1875 · page 2
In consequence of the report of the commission inquiry into the quality of railway iron supplied to the colony, the Government have telegraphed instructions to London to remove Mr. Shieles from the post…
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Evening News · Monday 7 June 1875 · page 3
SIR.—Permit me, as the owner of valuable freehold property at the southern end of the city, to raise my voice against the expenditure of public money for railway extension further into the city than at present exists. The [?] proposed…
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