A Novel Railway Signal
The Melbourne Argus states that at the Spencer-street railway terminus a useful novelty has recently been introduced. To dwellers in the west end of the city the almost continual car piercing…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1878
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Insecure Railway Fences
Two important actions were beard yesterday in the District Court. A person named John Tripp, residing at Campbelltown, along the railway line, had the misfortune to lose a horse which had strayed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deputations. Proposed Railway Line From Sydney to Newcastle, Via Brisbane Water
Yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, a deputation of gentlemen interested in the carrying out of the proposed line of railway from Sydney to Newcastle, via Gosford and through the district of Brisbane Water, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. Opening to Wagga Wagga, 3rd SEPTEMBER, 1878
RETURN TICKETS, at One Penny per mile, will be issued at all Stations for the trains leaving Sydney at 6.20 p.m. on MONDAY, the 2nd September, available for return for one week. Arrangements will be made for conveying passengers beyond…
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This morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. H. Clark, M.P., Mr. W. Mort, the Rev. J. J. Garvey, the Rev. J. G. Love, Mr. A. Steel, Mr. R. Guy, and Mr. F. Guy, waited on the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road from Tinonee to Kempsey
Mr. R. B. Smith, M.L.A., introduced to the Minister for Works, this morning, a deputation from the Bellinger River, Kempsey, and Macleay district, who requested that the road from Tinonee to Kempsey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Notices. Government Railways[?] Great Southern, Western, and Richmond Lines. Opening to Wagga Wagga, 3rd SEPTEMBER, 1878
RETURN TICKETS, at One Penny per mile, will be issued a[?] all Stations for the trains leaving Sydney at 6.20 p.m. on MONDAY, the 2nd September, available for return for one week. Arrangements will be made for conveying passengers beyond…
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A deputation from the Municipal Council of Burwood consisting of the Mayor (Mr. Lindsay Thompson) and Aldermen Forrest and Archer, waited on the Minister for Works on Wednesday, to urge the necessity of an…
Continued on Trove, page 348 →Road From Stroud to Kempsey
Mr. R. B. Smith, M.L.A., Mr. Pulsford, and Mr. Dangar had an interview with the Minister for Works yesterday, about the road from Stroud to Kempsey, and other mutters of local interest to the inhabitants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deputations. Road From Bateman's Bay to Bega
Mr. Clarke, M.L.A., the Rev. G. B. Love, the Rev. G. R. Garvey, Mr. T. Mort, Mr. Guy, and Mr. A. Steel formed a deputation to the Minister for Works yesterday morning, respecting the road from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Bateman's Bay to Eega. To the Editor
SIR,—In your report of the proceedings of the deputation to the Minister for Works yesterday on the above subject, I have to call your attention to an inaccuracy in a portion of same Touxtare" that the deputation asks for a deviation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deputations. Proposed Railway Line From Sydney to Newcastle, Via Brisbane Water
On Wednesday lost, at 10 o'clock, a deputation of gentlemen interested in the carrying out of the proposed line of railway from Sydney to Newcastle, via Gosford and through the district of Brisbane Water, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 348 →Railway Cattle Trucks
The extension of the railway lines in this colony and the consequent increase of live Stock traffic by rail render it advisable that the railway authorities should be well informed regarding the modes by which cattle and sheep are…
Continued on Trove, page 334 →The Australian Cown & countrg Journal Sydney, Saturday. August 81,1878. Opening of the Railway to Wagga Wagga
ON Tuesday next the first public train is to run from Sydney to Wagga Wagga. The train will start from the Redfern Station at halfpast 9 o'clock on Monday evening, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Cornet Railway Works
ROCKHAMPTON Friday.—The railway bridge at the Comet is now completed, and the line beyond the bridge is progressing favourably.—The site for the new township is being surveyed for half a…
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In inhabitants of that thriving, fertile, and picturesque district, Brisbane Water, alive to the importance of railway communication, have decided to put in their claim to consideration, in view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Land Tax and Railways
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Land Tax commissioners commenced hearing appeals to-day. The proceedings will occupy some months.—Several sections of the new railways are almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Railway from SYDNEY to Newcastle. Meeting at Brisbane Water. (By Our Own Reporter.)
During the past few weeks considerable ag[?] has existed in the minds of residents in the Brisbane Water district, for fear their interests should be ignored in the event of the railway being extended from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Notices. Government Railways. Richmond Line. Randwick Races
For the convenience of visitors from the Richmond Line attending the Randwick Races on thoe 31st August, 3rd. 5th, and 7th September, a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Blacktown for Richmond after arrival of the Evening Mail Trian from Sydney…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.—On Sunday afternoon a navy named William Delaney was killed in jumping from a truck. His body was almost dividing by the wheel. Verdict accidental death…
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