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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
538 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 27
There is not much progress in railway construction to report this month. The work on the various extensions appears to be steadily carried on, and there is a prospect of two lengths of railway being opened very shortly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE patriotic M.L.A.'s who ask for an additional train to the Blue Mountains have left out one little particular, which would have materially helped their cause, and inserted another which is superfluous. The omitted clause should have run thus:--"It will of course be understood that, if this train is granted, none of us will exercise the privilege which we enjoy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The half-past 7 train which left Adelaide on Saturday night, the 9th instant, had not proceeded far out of the station when James Leonard, who had entered an empty third-class compartment, fell out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday afternoon the City Coroner held, at the Benevolent Asylum, Pitt-street South, an inquest touching the cause of death of a man, name unknown, who had been run over by the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SIR— As there are two sides to a question, I trust you will permit me to make some remarks on a paper which appeared under the above heading in your journal of the 2nd instant. I am not aware that " the Government succeeded in obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On Saturday evening the employees in the traffic department of the Mew South Wales Railways celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of 'the line. The reunion, which had for its object the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Netwith standing the threa[?]og aspect of the weather, the ceremony of [?] the [?] fire engine, belonging to the Woolla[?] Brigade, came off last Saturday afternoon with [?] In the vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A trial trip to test the new passenger-carriages imported by the Moama and Deniliquin Railway Company, took place on the Williamstown line on Thursday, the carriages being attached to one of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government have just completed the purchase of a splendid block of land, at the Parramatta junction, as a site for the railway workshops and factories, of 83 acres, having a frontage to both sides of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We understand that Mr. J. W. Whitton retires rom the management of the existing lines of railway and the locomotive deportment, in consequence, of the increasing business of his department in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Cohen M.L.A., H. H Brown, M.L.A., Captain Smith, J.' P. Abbott, and Higgins, waited upon the Minister for Works this morning to urge the advisability of taking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. John Sutherland, M P. for Paddington, Aldermen Davies, Moore, Harris, and Maci[?]osh, Messrs. Roseby, J. W. Cox, and G. L. Carter, waited upon the Colonial Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some very useful work is now being done on the road to Botany Bay, and in a abort time a drive in this direction will be more enjoyable than ever. The road near the Tea Gardens is being widened at a spot where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The third annual dinner of the engine-drivers and firemen of the Great Southern and Western Railways was held on Saturday evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall, Sussex-street. About eighty sat down to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 26th September, Mr. George Day, P.M. (says the Border Post) rceived a telegram from Sydney, stating, with reference to the proposed bridge across the giver Murray, at Howlong, that the Hon. John Lackey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—It is said that a railway survey between Sydney and the Hunter is now in progress, via Wiseman's Ferry— distance about 110 miles and severe gradients. While fully admitting the national importance of a work that is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE picture on the first page of our supplement is a view of the bridge between south and South Gundagai. The sketch was taken when the river was in flood, aa shown by the waters resting upon the flats traversed by the viaducte…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR— In your issue of the 23rd instant, under the heading of "Answers to Correspondents," J. S. asks-''Has there ever been an order from the Government to debar trustees from giving a contract to a relative, namely, father, brother, or…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →From far-off Gunnedah they came, And interviewed poor Lackey, That thro' their town the rails be laid, And not some five miles back--eh ?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—A paragraph appeared in your issue of the 28th ultimo, headed "Railway Workshops and Factories," from which we learn that it is contemplated by the Government to incur a very large expenditure of public money in the…
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