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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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It is not generally known that excursion is to who avail themselves of the weekly excursion trains to the Blue Mountains, which leaves Sydney at 7.25 a.m. every Saturday morning, can return to town by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two deputations [?] upon the Hon. Minister for Works yesterday morning for the purpose of urging upon the hon. gentleman's attention the necessity for the erection of additional railway platforms in the suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE exhibit of the U. S. Government at the Centennial Exhibition is one of the most interesting and instructive portions of what has been the most valuable of any one of the international exhibitions yet held…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →On October 30, a catastrophe occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Brierfield, near Buraley, by which three men were killed and several persons badly injured. A goods train from Skipton had just finished…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →MR. ROUSE brought forward on Tuesday his preliminary motion in favour of the railway to Mudgee. It was carried by a majority of twenty-six to five, though an addition by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →IN accordance with the 150th clause of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company's Act, 37th Viotoria, which provides that "upon the completion of the railway and works authorised by this Act to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IF, as some of their remarks at Wellington would lead one to suppose, the Premier and the Secretary for Works have undertaken to pave the way for a reconciliation between the communities of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE Inquirer, Western Australia, has the following comments on the recently published report of our Commissioner for Railways:—A most valuable State paper has just been issued from the Government Printing Office, Sydney, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following notice of Mr. Rae's report appears in the Express Mail of the 24th November last:—"The report on the construction and working of the Railways in New South Wles by John Rae, A. M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As noticed by telegram, the accident which occurred to James Albert Miller, the railway guard, at Blackheath, on the 23rd December, has ended fatally. He died on the Bathurst Hospital on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE is hereby given that all Accounts-against the New South Wales Government Railway Department, up to the 31st December, 1876, must be furnished not later than the 31st of the present month…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The experiment of running railway trains with the carriage doors unlocked was tried to the Williamstown line, says the Melbourne Argus, on Tuesday. It is too early yet to arrive at any definite opinion as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Allow me. th[?] your columns, to draw attention [?]o charges made for season tickets issued from the several subar[?] stations, which ticket only carries you as far as the Red[?] terminus, a mile and a half from any business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the above date tickets, at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations for all stations, available for return on day of issue only, for distances of 15 miles and under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Considerable alarm seems to have been created yesterday asking the railway line from [?] Blayney, after passing the Bathurst station. A spark from one of the lo[?]es set to the pass between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As settlement of the expensive areas of country around Sydney becomes more general, consideration is naturally being given for improving of the means of communication, and there is now a project before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the above date tickets, at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations for all stations, available for return on day of issue only, for distances of 15 miles and under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the above date tickets, at a single fare for the double journey, will be issued at all stations for all stations, available for return on day of issue only, for distances of 15 miles and under…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The heavy rains have resulted in the flood great tracts of land in Perthshire and Forfarshire, the water lying to the depth of six feet. A serious mishap has occurred on the Caledonian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN answer to an advertisement calling "a meeting of those gentlemen who are favourable to the formation of a public company to construct a railway from Randwick by Waverier, Woollahra, Paddington, Surry Hills, through Redfern…
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