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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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IT is our melancholy duty to record another terrible and fatal accident on the railway—this time to one of the employees—which occurred on May 23 about 6 o'clock, The mail train leaving Sydney at 5.25 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →The City Coroner held an inquiry, on Saturday morning, at the Brecknock Arms Hotel, George-street North, respecting the death of George Bourne, fireman, who fell off an engine on the railway, and was killed on the spot. Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 777 →THE task devolves, not unfrequently, upon Ministers of the Crown to reconcile popular enthusiasm for grand objects with reasonable consideration of the difficulties, and sometimes the impossibilities,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT was said lately by Sir WILLIAM JERVOIS, on his return to England, alter a sojourn in the Australian colonies, that the best defence of Australia would be a system of intercolonial…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A CORRESPONDENT writes:—As the 20 past 4 mail train from Sydney was approaching the Orange terminus on Tuesday, it ran off the main line on to a siding, the points having been left open by the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Foremost among the festivities of the day was the railway excursion and picnic of the employees of the Railway Traffic Department, at Parramatta Park. Precisely at a quarter past 8 o'clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →All the available railway stock was utilised on the various lines of railway. To prevent confusion and discomfort, the traffic manager, Mr. Thomas Carlisle, issued and personally superintended the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MUDDGEE, Monday.—On Saturday evening last a meeting of the Mudgee Railway League was held, when an influential executive committee was formed, consisting, among others, of the Mayors of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is one of the [?] of the day to suppose that the extension of railways, Invarisbly means benefit to the hotels and storekeepers along the route, whilst the earthworks are in course of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. E. D. Ogilvie Mr. C. H. E. Chauvel, Mr. J. W. Dickson, and Mr. E. Bell, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday to advocate the survey of a line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY a deputation, consisting of Messrs. E. D. Ogilvie, C. H. E. Chauvel, J. W. Dickson, and E. Bell, waited on the Hon. J. Sutherland, Minister for Works, to urge the Government to survey a line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT was reported in Quirindi some time before midnight of Tuesday (says the [?]Times) that an accident had taken place at the extreme limit of the present line of rails, some few miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS.—Attention is directed to GAZETTE notice inviting tenders for undermentioned work, viz.:— Bridge over Polygenum Swamp, and for the timber app[?]ches to the iron bridge at Bewaka. Time for receipt of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS morning a large and influential deputation, representing the city of Sydney and suburban municipalities, waited on the Minister for Works to urge the importance of the Government undertaking, without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PURSUANT to advertisement, a meeting of ratepayers in the borough of Paddington was held on Thursday evening, in the Council-chambers, Paddington. The meeting was called by the Mayers in response to a requisition of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →" THE Telephone," in the Echo of Tuesday last, says that there are six niches left in the above buildings for statues, and that the talented sculptor, Signor Simonetti, has been commissioned to supply them-- that it is a matter of regret these statues are to be cut out of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WOLLONGONG, Friday.—The Blawarra Mercury of this morning points out that the Hon. Mr. [?]nell was storms[?] for several days at Illawarra on his late visit to this district. owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the members of the Mudgee railway league was held in the Town Hall on Saturday evening last: the attendance being good. Mr. James Atkinson, chairman of the league presided and opened the proceeding by stating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The contract of Messrs. Amos, Brothers, for the extension of the Great Southern Railway to North Waaga Wagga is approaching completion. The rails are laid to a point within 5 miles of the town, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LARGE deputation waited on the Minister for Works yesterday morning, for the purpose of urging upon that gentleman and the Government the extreme desirability for proceeding with a scheme under which the suburbs would…
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