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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The directors have submitted the following report of the operations of the Company during the half-year ending 31st December, 1846 :- The receipts from tolls, &c. show an increase of [?]100 upon those of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of gentlemen favourable to the formation of a public company to construct a railway from Randwick by Waverly, Wooliahra, Paddington, Surry Hills, through Redfern, and to a central [?] in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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 Waverley, Woollahra, Paddington, Surry Hills, through Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the 6.50 am. train from Parramatta, due at Tydney at 7.38 a.m. was approaching the Redfern railway station this morning, a digger earned John Coglan, while crossing the line, came in contact with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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 2 →ON Friday, the 19th instant, a meeting was held at Gordon's Hotel, Wellington, to consider the present aspect of railway matters. The meeting was commenced inside the hotel, but the number attending being very large, an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—In your sub-leader this morning I was glad to learn your views on the above subject. There can be no two opinions amongst these who know the country that the line via Deniliquin, although a little longer, for all practical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In station properties there is utill not much to report, investors generally being influenced by the unfavourable season now prevailing. Fat cattle are becoming more scarce each week, but…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →The heavy rains have resulted in the flooding of 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 27 →WE give a view of the new bridge over the Yarra, at Collingwood, Victoria, which has been recently constructed by the Department of Railways and Roads. The bridge, which is at the foot of Johnson-street, forms a direct…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SIR,âThe subject of increased railway accommodation for the publie appears to excite general attention of late. In the suburbs, wherever a few wealthy persons reside, a platform is erected between two stations for their special…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. ROBERTSON is the head of the Government, and Mr. PIDDINGTON has been chosen as the leader of the Opposition ; but with all this show of organization on both sides it seems…
Continued on Trove, page 144 →A MOVEMENT has been started for the construction of a suburban railway by private enterprise if the Government will not undertake the work. There is every reason to believe that a…
Continued on Trove, page 144 →AN accident occurred at Ashtabuls, Ohio, on the Lake Shore Railroad, by which seven coaches and all the baggage and express cars were burned, and about one out of every five persons killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at his office, Hyde Park, touching the death of a fireman employed in the locomotive department of the Government Railways, named John Eilliott who was knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident occurred at Ashtabula, Ohio, on the Lake Shore Railroad, by which seven coaches and all the baggage and express cars were burned, and ab ut one out of every five persons killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 20th February next, from persons willing to contract for supplying Six goods Break Vans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY morning, the City Coroner (Mr. Shioll) held an inquest on the body of a man named John Elliott, who died in the Infirmary from injuries received on the railway line on Saturday afternoon. Walter Haddon, engine-driver, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One accident follows another with startling rapidity on the Lyons and Mediterranean Railway. Scarcely had the company contradicted a sensational report that twenty surgeons went from Paris on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An accident occurred at Ashtabula, Ohio, on the Lake Shore Railroad, by which seven coaches and all the baggage and express cars burned, and about one out of every…
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