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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 2nd of October next from persons willing to contract for the Construction and Erection of the above Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ON the arrival of the Scotch mail at Bedford yesterday morning, the attention of some of the parsons on the platform, as the train was drawing up, was attracted by the appearance of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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 50½ miles or thereabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Secretary for Public Works (the Hon. Edward Combes) has obtained the approval of the Governor and the Executive Council to a carefully revised tariff for the conveyance of goods by railway. Considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 337 →As many of our readers will be aware, this event was celebrated at Quirindi on the 13th August, thus making 144 miles of railway complete from Newcastle. We give below a view Of the banquet and the new railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS came off in the goods-shed, "which was most tartefully decorated for the occasion. Notwithstanding many difficulties, a repast was provided which would have done credit to any metropolitan caterer; the moving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonel Faulkner, with seventy-five men of the Berkeley Light Infantry Guards, arrived with loaded muskets and took charge of a west bound freight train, and placing his men on board…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →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 9 →On Saturday last an accident occurred at the points on the western side of the Blayney railway station, by which a considerable portion of the two lines was injured. At about 3 p.m. the contractors…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In reply to "Manoah," permit me to say that it is better by far to construc lines even along "the crests of ridges" which will pass through the centres of populations and serve both passenger and goods traffic, than through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE contractor for the new railway station is making rapid progress with his work, and already has the foundations down. The plaus show that the building will be very handsome and commodious, and a credit and o[?]nament to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EXCURSION TICKETS, at a single fare for the [?]ble journey, will be issued at all stations for Bathurst [?]n the 26th instant, available for return until 1st October. Grooms and jockeys accompanying racehorses will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The other day there was a race from Dover to London between the Continental mail express train and a carrier pigeon conveying a document of an urgent nature from the French police. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We understand that the Hon. E. COmbes, Minister for Works, contemplates asking the sanction of the Cabinet to a reduced scale of charges for the conveyance of passengers on our railway lines, and also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The reduction made in the conveyance of some descrptions of goods as contained in the revised goods sheet recently published, must be a matter of congratulation to the marcantile community, yet some anomalies are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Ever sines the House called for plans and estimates for a Circular Suburban Railway and for the extension of the present line to Circular Quay, and even, for a long time previously, numbers of the engineering staff have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cootranmndra Herald reports a fatal accident to a David Richardson, a relative of Mr. David. richardson, of Reidsdale. Deceased who was engaged of as general caretaker of the ballast tracks of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The estimated cost of the works embraced in Mr. W. Watkin's contract for the extension and construction of the Great North-Western Railway is £3214 per mile, and the time allowed for completion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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 9 →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…
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