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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
538 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 27
SIR,—Why should the railway to Wollongong be made the battle-ground between the ins and the outs? The line is certain to be made sooner or later, and the sooner the better. It will not injure Newcastle to the extent of a ton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Rhomons, an English capitalist, is negotiating for the purchase of the Egyptian railways…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL TRAIN will leave SYDNEY for LIVERPOOL on the above days, at 9.35 a.m., calling at intermediate stations, and returning from Liverpool at 6.35 p.m. Single fare for the double journey…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT ten o'clock this morning our Parramatta correspondent forwarded us the following telegram:— "A frightful and fatal accident occurred this morning at the Parramatta Junction, resulting in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL TRAIN will leave SYDNEY for LIVERPOOL on the above days, at 9.35 a.m., calling at intermediate stations, and returning from Liverpool at 6.35 p.m. Single fare for the double journey…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Travelling, yesterday afternoon, from Richmond to Blacktown, in a second class close railwat-carriage, there being no open one, the heat was insufferably intense— about 120 degrees Fahrenheit—and one passenger evinced decided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Hesbie, do you care leas for me than you used to do?" It was a straightforward interrogative, characteristic of him who made it. It heat down at…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →An inquest was held here yesterday on the, bodies of the two men, Johm Lyons and Henry Kemp, who lost their Jives through being rah over by the No. 19 down passenger train. According to the evidence of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN appalling accident occurred on the railway yesterday morning, near the Parramett[?] J[?]tion, by which two permanent-way men, named respectively Lyons and Marks, lost their lives. It appears the men were standing on the "down" line, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. J. S. Smith, M.L.A. ; Sir George Innes, M.L.C.; Mr. E. A. Baker, M.L.A.; Mr. W. Byrnes. M.L.A.; Mr. W. H. Suttor, M.L.A.; Mr. George Lord, M.L.A. ; Mr. Pilcher, M.L.A., and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 115 →Mr. Rhomons, an English, capitalist, is negotiating for the purchase of the Egyptian railways…
Continued on Trove, page 106 →Considerable excitement was caused in Rugby the other morning by its being extensively circulated that a portion of a human body and several articles of wearing apparel covered with blood had been found in an empty truck in an…
Continued on Trove, page 124 →THE District Coronor, Mr. J. E. Bowdea, held an inquiry yesterday evening, on the bodies of two men, lying in the Hospital dead house, Parramatta, named William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Department have determined to issue excursion tickets at single fares for the double journey to and from all stations on the Great Northern line every Saturday. The same practice has obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—After all the one-sided letters that have been published in the contest between those interested in the Northern and Southern coal-fields, it is quite refreshing to read the [?] exposition that appeared in your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]—It is much to be regretted that your correspondent [?] declines to show that [?] is anperior to [?] railway running parallel with the sea" He [?] from and avoids these topics by making the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—There has been no topic of late which has exeited so much controversy as the schemo propounded for the formation of a railway to connect the district of Illawarra with Sydney; and inasmuch as this project involves an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—It appears to me that it the proper pr[?]cations were adopted the horrible death of the two poor working men. killed by the train at the Parramatta Junction on F[?]day, may not have occurred. Where a railway consists of a double…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It, the principles of political economy laid down by Mr. Biggar and other supporters of the Illawarra railway were to obtain, we should certainly witness some strange revolutions in our affairs…
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