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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
538 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 27
OUR picture of the bridge, whick is situated about half a mile from Crystal Brook, South Australia, on the Gladstone and Port Pirie Railway, is about the only object of interest on the line. It is a very neat structure, and is substantially…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The annual festival in connection with the railway locomotive department was celebrated to-day by a successful railway excursion to Douglass Park, a few miles beyond Menangle. Precisely at half-past eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful railway accident occurred on August 7 at midnight, between Radstock Wellow, on the Bath and Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The line is a single one, worked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fat Stock.—Under this head there is no change of importance to note. Wool and Skins were again eager'y competed for at recent prices, some greasy wool rea ising 9d, bot that cannot well be…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THE picture on the first page of our supplement gives a view of the new railway bridge over the Brisbane River, on the Brisbane and Ipswich line. The general construction is light and handsome, supported on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, the capital of New South Wales, and the parent city of Australia, is gradually and surely assuming magnificent proportions. The old buildings are fast disappearing, or are being eclipsed by handsome…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A fatal collision took place on the night of August 7th on the 8 merset and Dorset Railway at Radstock, a station about ten miles from Bath. The line, which is leased by the Midland Railway Company, is a single…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the bodies of the men killed in the accident to the Flying Dutchman, near Bristol, on July 27, has ended in a strong censure of the responsible officers. The jury find that the cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday, the 6th instant, while the ballast van heavily laden, was descending from the tunnel to Doughboy Hollow, on the railway extension near Mururundic, the train acquired such a speed from the steep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As a proof of public confidence is the soundness of the Deniliquin ana Moama railway as a commercial speculation, the shares are sought after at a high premium (about 50[?] on each share for the investment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The interest excited by the recent parliamentary contest on the subject of the proposed Idawarra railway has not been confined to the colony, for in England and [?]se where the discussions on this important question, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During a recent discussion in the Queensland Legislature on the Railway Reserve Bill, Mr. Tyrel, one of the members for the north-western distriots, said:-"A line of railway to New South Wales would be the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held at Wagga Wagga on Monday (says the Express) to consider the proposition by the Government to make a branch line from Junce to Narandera, with the view of absorbing the Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A company as being formed in this city to construct a line of railway from Deniliquin to Hay, there to meet a line projected from Wagga Wagga to that place. A large proportion of the capital required for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Station Proportion there is not much doing; investors are holding off for lower prices and for a more definite understanding as to the effect of the recent decline in price of wool; at the same time buyers are on the look out, for paying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The down express on Saturday afternoon (says the Hobart Town Mercury of the 16th) narrowly escaped what would undubtedly have been a very serious accident. As the train was passing through York Plains…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The site is about twenty miles north of Wellington, Lower Murray, at which township there has, for many years, been a well-appointed Government ferry, on the overland route to Victoria. This bridge was several years back designed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT is pleasant to find cobnuts of New South Wales, absent from the colony, retaining a lively interest in its affairs, and keeping themselves acquainted with their condition and progress. A letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 528 →A fearful railway accident occurred on August 7 at midnight, between Radstock and Wellow, on the Bath and Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The line is a single one, worked…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →SIR,—I notice an article in the Herald of Friday last from your special reporter at the philadelphia Exhibition, on railway signalling, &c., in which reference is made to the working of our suburban railway line…
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