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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,007 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 51
SIR,—The Minister for Works, in answer to a deputation from Randwick in reference to the construction of the eastern portion of the contemplated schemes of suburban railways as suggested by Mr. Farnell some time age, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I was pleased to notice the remarks of the Hon. A. Campbell on the occasion of the Ministerial visit to Moss Vale, and should think they will lead to some practical result. It has been a wonder to me the Government have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock, on TUESDAY, the 26th March, 1878, from persons willing to contract for supplying THIRTY (30) CATTLE WAGGONS for the Great Northern Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issue 1 at all stations to Richmond on the above day, available for return up to the 28th instant Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This train will run South on SATURDAY, the 16th instant, to Moss Vale, leaving Sydney at 7.50 a.m. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 28th February, 1878…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all stations to Richmond on the above day, available for return up to the 28th instant. Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IT was quite time that the Government took some steps to deal in a business-like way with the railway free-pass system. From an answer to a question put in the House on…
Continued on Trove, page 336 →Oh listen ! brother citizens Ye stout and stalwart males ; And you ye lovely denizens, In Pul-me-backs and veils !…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A private company seeks a monopoly of the use of portions of the public streets for a City and Suburban Tramway, and at once there is a rail against more monopolies. Are there not other monopolies worked and connived at, against which the public voice is not raised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. George Kiss, Mayor of Randwick; Mr. E. Daintry, Mr. S. H. Pearce, Mr. Walter Bradley, Mr. Butchart, Mr. Wall, and Mr. John Lucas, M.P., waited on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SIR,—I think you would do a service to railway travelers by informing them how they stand in regard to 'bus charges. The'Bus Company have, under an arrangement with the Commissioner for Railways the exclusive right to take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXCURSION TICKETS at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all stations to Richmond on the aboveday, available for return up to the 28th instant. Department of Public Works, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock, on TUESDAY the 26th instant from persons willing to contact for supplying BUILDING SAND for the Permanent Way Branch of the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This engraving gives a very fair view of Bridge Street, looking east from near the Exchange, a building shown to the immediate right; the Crown Lands' Office and Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE have received a communication from a resident of Campbelltown, complaining in very strong terms of what he describes as the “highly dangerous and almost impassable condition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE present our readers with an engraving of the new bridge over the Alligator Creek, situated about eighteen miles from Rockhampton. This important structure has just been completed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THE thirty-seventh annual general meeting of the proprietors was held on Tuesday last at the Company's offices, 122, Leadenhall-street, Mr. W. Fane do Salis in the chair. The secretary (Mr. A. M.Bethune) read the notice…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is said that, since the appointment of a board to deal with applications for free passes by railway, the number of applications has gradually fallen away from an average of…
Continued on Trove, page 368 →A FEW weeks ago the expediency of constructing a railway to connect Sydney with the Great Northern line by way of Parramatta, Baulkham Bills,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the problems iu railway engineering was that of carrying the "iron horse" over the mountain ranges, which seem to forbid the making of railways past the valley of the…
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