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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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It is consoling to find that thc recent complications in political matters in Victoria are fast passing away, notwithstanding the efforts of some sections of the Press to keep open the sore. It is, doubtless, a little…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are indebted to Captain Wagstaff for a suggestive sketch for the improvement of the harbour at Circular Quay. He proposes that a stone pier be run clown the centre of the Cove, 1300 feet long and 150 feet wide,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE further extension of the Great Southern Railway from Bethungra to Junee, opened on the 6th instant, is a distance of 18 miles 29 chains. The works are chiefly light earthworks and small culverts, and the land taken is fenced in with a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE deficiency in rolling-stock on the Government railways of New South Wales, and particularly in locomotive engines, has for many years been painfully felt by the department and by the public,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →TRAVELLERS through the Molong district can't help wondering what and how great claims are possessed by Ironbarks, to counter-balance those of Molong for railway communication; for here is…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE following is a schedule of the new lines of railway in Victoria which Mr. Woods has prepared and laid before his colleagues, with the view of having their construction recommended to…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THE continual extension of the trunk lines of this colony has led to [?] great an increase of traffic on our railway that necessity is constantly arising for the provision of further facilities on the existing lines, the construction of which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 13th August, 1878 from persons willing to contract for Erecting Station Buildings Platform, Carriago Dock, Station-master's Houso, Goods' Warehouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROCKHAMPTON. Monday. — The Bulletin has an article against the deviation of the line to Cheven's Gap, stating that it would be roundabout route, besides going over spurs and large creeks. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Central Police Court, this morning, a young man named Francis Martin, aged nineteen, was brought up for having on the night previously taken a seat in and remaining in a railway carriage need on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A COLLISION occurred at 7 o'clock this morning between a mineral and goods train, at the Vale of Clwydd siding; the mineral train consisting of fifteen loaded trucks and fifteen empties, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This forenoon, a deputation consisting of the Hon. A. Campbell, the Hon. T.W. Smart, Mr. W. Wallis, Mr. Thomas Buckland, Mr. W. Perry, Mr. George Thorne (Commissioners of the South Head…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting, convened by the Mayor, Mr W. Walker, in compliance with the resolution of a preliminary meeting, was held in the School of Arts, on Saturday last, foe the purpose of petitioning the Government to construct…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock, on TUESDAY the 23rd July, 1878, from persons willing to contract for supply of 300 D. TRUCKS, for the G. S. W. and R. Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Commissioners forming the South Head Roads Trust waited on the Minister for Public Works to represent to him the present position of the Trust, and to obtain Government assistance towards the propor maintenance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—In the Assembly, Mr Ward's motion to connect Adelaide with the Eastern colonies by railway was discussed. The Government contended that the colony was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. C. A. Goodchap) has issued regulations respecting the conditions of employment in the Government Railway Service of New South Wales, and the considerations which will govern the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TENDERS will be received at this office, until [?] o'clock, on TUESDAY the 23rd July, 1878, from persons willing to contract for supply of 300 D. TRUCKS for the G. S. W. and R. Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Wednesday a deputation consisting of the Hon. A. Campbell, the Hon. T. W. Smart, Mr. W. Wallis, Mr. Thomas Buckland, Mr. W. Perry, Mr. George Thorne (Commissioners of the South Head…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Commissioners forming the South Head Roads Trust waited oh the Minister for Public Works to represent to him the present position of the Trust, and to obtain Government assistance towards the proper maintenance of…
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