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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 31st July, 1877, from persons willing to contract for supplying Six Heavy Break Vans for the Great Northern Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE very unpleasant description of the trip of the excursion train from Murrumburrah to Sydney, on the 11th instant, given in the Legislative Assembly last week by Mr. BAKER,—after due inquiries, as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Last Saturday evening, pursuant to public notice, a meeting was held at the Shepherd's Inn (Colbran's), Mr. J. R. Ardill in the chair. The chairman, after reading the advertisement, explained the object of the meeting, which was in the first…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—It appears to me that few of our members know anything about the Wagga bridge, will you allow me to enlighten them. The toils for the first three years paid for the bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A narrow escape of a train on the Tasmanian Main Line Railway happened on the 19th just as the train started. a horse, which was fastened up in the stock yard at the Campbelltown station, getting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE correspondent of the Standard, telegraphing on June 6, gives the following account of the bridge disaster at Bath, England:— A terrible and fatal accident, casting a gloom not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Boulogne correspondent of the Times writes under date June 3:— "A bold robbery was effected between 2 and 3 a.m. on Saturday from the train conveying Friday night's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day a mishap occurred at the Railway Station, but it fortunately did not result iu anything very serious. It appears that when the suburban passenger train, due at 1.4 p.m., was running into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In reply to a letter signed "Wagga Wagga" in your issue of the 28th instant, permit me to say— 1. That the gross amount of tolls received during the four and a half years did not equal the sum expended on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large and in[?]al p[?] meeting was held last evening in the Redfern Town Ha[?] to advocate the desirabi[?]ty of raving a railway platform erected at or near Everleigh-street, Redfern. Among those present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dead body of an aboriginal woman has been found at the City Railway Station. It was thought at at eight that the unfortunate woman had died a natural death, but on one of the police officers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be recived at this Office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 31st July, 1877, from persons willing to contract for supplying Six Heavy Break Vans for the Great Northern Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning a deputation from the Northern Districts, consisting of sir. Jacob, M.P., Mr. Turner, M.P., Mr. Selioley, M.P., Sir. W. C. Browne, H.P., Mr. Tkqnias Hungerford, Mr. Join Lee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 7th August, 1877, from persons willing to purchase about 60 tons of Old Rails and about 50 tons of Wrought Scrap Iron, which may be inspected on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TENDERS will be received at this office up till noon on MONDAY, the 1st October, for the Construction of a LINE of RAILWAY between Port Augusta and the Government Gums, being a distance of 200 miles, or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR.—My attention has been drawn to a letter which appears in your issue of the 28th ultimo, signed "Wagga Wagga," and I request the favour of a small space for my reply…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TENDERS will be received at this office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 2nd of October next, from persons willing to contract for the Construction and Erection of the above Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Victorian Assembly has been treated to another sensation in connection with the Botanical-gardens line. Mr. Service, so soon as the House met yesterday, asked if it were true that the line was being…
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