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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
713 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 36
A suicide of a most determined character was committed on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway line on Monday evening. As the 6 p.m. train from Windsor to Melbourne was passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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 1 →TENDERS will be received at this office untill 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 second attempt within a year and a half was made on Friday night to rob the U. S. Express Company's ear on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, a short distance east of Ligonier, Ind…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →On WEDNESDAY, the 12th September, a Special Train will leave Sydney for Goulburn at 11.15 a.m., calling at the following intermediate stations to pick up only:— Fares for Double Journey…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →TENDERS will be received at this office up till noon on MONDAY, 29th October, for the construction of a Line of Railway from Mount Gambier to Rivoli Bay, being a length of 50¼ miles or thereabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—As the routes for the eastern and southern suburbs lines, mentioned in the Herald of to-day, may be deviated at any time before the plans, &c., are submitted to Parliament, and even then, I now ask you to allow me to express…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The invention of Mr. Murray, Inspector of Victorian Railway telegraphs, for affording a means of signalling between passengers and railway carriages and the guard and engine-driver, which was described…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On WEDNESDAY, the 12th September, a Special Train will leave Sydney for Goulburn at 11.15 a.m., calling at the following information stations to pick up only:— —Fares for Double Journey.—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I would like to draw the attention of the powers that be to the amount of smoking which fakes place in nonsmoking carriages, and sometimes the state the floors are in is quite sickening, and to ladies travelling in them it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the night of the 5th instant an accident happened near the Rooty Hill station on the southern line of railway which caused the death of a ganger named John Rennison. The deceased seems to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SPECIAL TRAINS from Sydney on WEDNESDAY, 12th September, 1877. On WEDNESDAY, the 12th September, a Special Train will leave Sydney for Goulburn at 11.15 a.m., calling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We learn that twelve railway carriages are being constructed to the order of the Government, under the supervision of Mr. mason, engineer for existing lines. Four of thesse are four-wheeled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We learn that the Government have determined upon a twenty per tent, reduction of the present railway charges, to come into effect at once. The statement of the new rates will appear in to-morrow's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Secretary for Public Works has obtained the approval of the Governor and the Executive Council to a carefully revised tariff for the conveyance of goods by railway. Considerable reductions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this office up till noon on MONDAY, the 1st October, for the Construction of a LINE of RAIL WAY between Port Augusta and the Government Gums, being a distance of 200 miles, or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Adverting to the letter of"C.E."on this subject in your issue of the 8th instant, as well as to other correspondence, I think that the lines shown on a lately published map of Svdney are much superior ot any others advocated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I am gind to see in this morning's Herald a letter from "Smoke-dried, "in reference to the smoke nuisance on the railway, and hasten to endore his exceedingly mild remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HAY is situated on the Murrumbidgee, about a hundred miles above its junction with the Lachlan, and about 460 miles south-west from Sydney. The navigation is open in ordinary seasons from Hay to the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →To make a durable path in the garden the soil should be taken out to the depth of about a foot below the general level, and loose stones or drain pipes should be laid down the centre in a channel formed in the bed of…
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