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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
538 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 27
On December 24 the United States Express car, on the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern train was robbed between Ferguson and Jennings Station. Kincaid, the messenger, says that he was lying on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Allow me, through your columns, to reply to Mr. [?]ooth's letter of the 31st ultimo, which want of time his revented my answering sooner. The firm of contractors to which I referred in mine of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Being very strongly impressed with the necessity that now exits for a well conceived expenditure of the large sum of money that has fallen almost by chance into our Treasury, which may not occur again until still greater…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Earl Coedstown's amazement at Matthew Quail's revelation was so intense that he went back a few steps, and sat down on the Countess. "I—I beg pardon, Heurictta!" he said, rising…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →SOME further correspondence relating to the railway iron from the Park Gate Company has been laid before Parliament and published. It appears that Mr. Shiblds, the inspecting officer, is anxious to…
Continued on Trove, page 208 →SIR.—Kindly permit me to direct public attention to the disgraceful state of some of the roads in the Berrima district. In the fust place on thn main Southern Road the bridge over Cowlr-y's Creek, near the old Three-legs-of-man,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 29th February, from persons willing to contract for the construction of a standard Regulating Clock for the Redfern Station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN accident resulting in the death of three pereons, happened on the Northern Line of Railway at Adelaide on Wednesday morning, February 9. The deceased are:—Jonathan Wright, engine-driver;. John Warren…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDEES will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY the 2[?]th February, from persons willing to contract for the construction of a standard Regulating Clock for the Redfern Station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sarah Bennett was buried in West Atherby churchyard in the afternoon of Monday, and the village turned out to see the funeral. There had been much talk about the strange girl's death and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The bill for the new railway from London to Brighton, between London and Brighton, has been prepared, and the capital of £2,100,000 subscribed…
Continued on Trove, page 234 →SIR,—I have endeavoured to point out in my letters on this subject, the necessity of facilitating export trade into the port from the ninth and south. I will now go into a matter which I consider of even greater importance—the prompt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From information brought to this office last night (says the Newcastle Pilot of Monday) by a gentleman from Coorumbung, we learn that Mr. George Taylor, auctioneer, and resident of the same place, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Matthew Quail loved Indleness for more than one reason. It was a quiet place, and he loved quietness. It was eight miles from the nearest railway station, and therefore excursionists never…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →AN accident resulting in the death of three persons, happened on the Northern line of railway at Adelaid on Wednesday morning, February 9. The decease are:—Jonathan Wright, engine-driver; John Warren…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →SIR,—While the 5.30 p.m. train from Sydney, by which I was a passenger was stopping at the Newtown station, an excursion train bound for Sydney, loaded with children, passed us. The boys in one or two of the carriages assailed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clement Quail did not mention to his brother that he had met Lady Pounie coming out of church, and that, whilst Matthew and the curate were exchanging a few compliments, he…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →ONE MAN FATALLY WOUNDED, AND SINCE DEAD. Last Saturday evening tin outrage, resulting in the murder of a respectable man named James O'mant, took place at a small store, at Emu Flat…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →THE idea of what is called a "saddle-bag" railway is not a new one; but it was left to our enterprising American cousins to carry it out. A short time ago, a party of New York and Philadelphia gentlemen (among whom were…
Continued on Trove, page 297 →The Sydney Railway Station yesterday was a scene of usual bustle and excitement. About halftwo o'clock the very long funeral cortege connected with the burial of the body of Mr. George Bolto[?], of…
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