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Railways, roads & transport, 1877

713 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 36

Deniliquin and Moama Railway. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 21

THE fifth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway was held in the Company's Office, at the terminus, Deniliquin, on Monday afternoon, February 5. There was a fair…

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Deniliquin and Moama Railway

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1877 · page 4

THE fifth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway was held in the Company's Office, at the terminus, Deniliquin, On Monday afternoon, February 5. There was a fair…

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Railway Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 20 February 1877 · page 2

The Western Examiner reports that a man named Janes Byrne was, on Wednesday, received into the Orange Hospital under the following circumstances:—It appears that about noon on that day the…

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City Railway Extension. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1877 · page 5

SIR,—There appears to be setting in a renewal of the agitation concerning the extension of the railway into and through the city to the waters of Sydney Cove, and furthe the extension of the line to the suburbs eastward which are…

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Important Road Action

Evening News · Wednesday 21 February 1877 · page 2

An action of considerable public importance was adjudicated on Monday and yesterday in the Jury Court, before his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett and a jury of four. The action was one of trespass brought by a…

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Free Railway Passes

Sydney Punch · Saturday 24 February 1877 · page 3

Mr. Punch regrets that any member of the Press, whether real or so-called, should have placed himself in so false a position as to merit the following remark from a member of the Government:— " With reference to Mr.—,he (Mr. Lackey) confessed that his…

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Breach of the Railway By-Laws

Evening News · Monday 26 February 1877 · page 2

Mr. George Richardson, second-class season ticket holder, of Petersham, was informed. against at the Central Police Office yesterday, by Mr. George Evans, station-master, for having, on the 17th ultimo,…

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Parramatta River Bridge

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 2

The tenders for this work have been opened, and it is found that all are so high as to induce the Minister for Works to hesitate accepting any one of them. The question as to what steps will be taken in the matter…

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A [?] Train Dashing Down the Mountain Side

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 3

[?]27th November, 1876.—The wildest and most impossible of Jules Verne's Scientific [?] more thrilling than [?] occurred at Dunmore, one…

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Unemployed Railway Labourers

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 2

A crowded meeting of a very enthusiastic character, convented by the Mayor on re[?]sition was held in the Court-house, Orange, on Wednesday evening, to make arrangements for the proposed demonstration on…

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The Perils of Railway Travelling. (From the Birmingham Daily Mail, November 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 6

IT is always unfair to generalise from isolated facts. It would be unfair, for instance, to describe railway travelling as specially dangerous because accidents are occasionally, or…

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[John Bridge.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 32

There is still nothing of importance to report in station propertiesor store stook for reasons understood but too well. Fat cattle this week sold at not over 21s to 23s per 1001b for best pens, although the supply was not excessive, and…

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The Proposed Bridge Over the Parramatta River. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 5

SIR,—In your report of the Parliamentary debate of yesterday (Thursday) evening, on a motion of adjournment, Mr. Booth is reported to have said, in reference to a bridge proposed to be erected over the Parramatta River, that "it…

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Immigration and the Alleged Scarcity of Railway Navvies. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 5

SIR,—In connection with the above subject, I would respectfully draw the attention of your numerous readers and especially those of the working classes to the paragraph which appears in your issue of this morning, giving an…

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Railways in British Possessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 8

IN Captain Tyler's report to the Board of Trade on the railways of the United Kingdom and the British Empire for the year 1875, he has, for the first time, "been enabled through the assistance of the Colonial Office to add much…

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Locking Railway Carriages

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 26

MUCH objection has been raised against what is called by some "the barbarous rule" of locking the doors of railway carriages. This practice has been adopted—though not in all cases…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1877 · page 3

An accident almost as fatal in its result as that of Abbot's Ripton, on the same line, in the early part of this year, occurred at the Arlesey siding station, four miles north of Hitchen, on the Great Northern Railway, on the…

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Railway-Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 7 March 1877 · page 2

About half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon an accident occurred near the South Creek railway station, Which night have been attended with fatal results. It appeared that the foreman of the South Creek railway…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works. Railway Branch, March 6, 1877

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1877 · page 3

GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS. GREAT SOUTHERN LINE. OPENING IO MURRUMBURRAH. A SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Goulburn on…

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An Incident of the Ashtabula Railway Disaster. (From the San Francisco Bulletin.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1877 · page 11

IF every individual who went down with the ill-fated railroad train at Ashtabula and lived through the experience were to write up his or her sensations and adventures, none woudl display that coolness and heroism described by…

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