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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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For the convenience of those persons who are desirous of attending the Melbourne Races, arrangements have been made with the victorian Railway Department, and with Cobb and Co., mail coach proprietors, for the through journey from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ministerial train was greatly delayed, and did not arrive at Tamworth until exactly 6 o'clock. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson and suite met the train four miles outside the town and accompanied…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Education debate lasted till a late hour last night, and wes adjourned to Tuesday next. Every speaker denounced the agitation to introduce religious teaching in State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The West Bend Railway was opened yesterday with a banquet at Margan, the terminus. The Governor and party were present, besides political and commercial notabilities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have reason to believe that the Ministry are in earnest in their determination to carry out the construction of the City and Suburban Railways, the latter in conjunction with the former. The plans and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Governor opened the line, arriving here this evening at 6 o'clock. The trains were detained two hours on the journey. About 6000 persons were present. Thera were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →There was a grand and successful demonstration at the opening by his Excellency the Governor, of the North-West Bend Railway to-day. About 250 guests were conveyed to the Bend by special train. A banquet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The crowds of persons who had been attracted by the ceremonial of the opening of the line to Tamworth by his Excellency the Governor suddenly " making " a township, the accommodation in which was limited, as might be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway communication has at last been, extended northwards as far as Tamworth. The process has been so slow that at times people have been driven to doubt whether this…
Continued on Trove, page 624 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. Copeland, M.L.A., Mr. H. Bennett, M.L.A., Mr. Barbour. M.L.A., and Mr. Richardson (of Armidale), waited upon the Minister for Works the other day to urge that the Great Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 627 →The following is a petition recently adopted at a public meeting at Mudgee for presentation to the Hon. the Minister for Works, in reference to the railway which is being agitated for by the people of Mudgee and the surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 627 →The extension of the Northern line from Quirindi to Tamworth is perhaps one of the most important of any events connected with our system of railway communication with the interior which has yet taken place. In tapping…
Continued on Trove, page 633 →Several Members of the Assembly have been making themselves more than usually absurd--quite a work of supererogation by the same token--in their frivolous objections to the granting of licenses to some four or five refreshment rooms on our three lines of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Friday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Copeland, M.L.A.; Mr. Barbour, M.L.A.; Mr. Bennett, M.L.A., and Mr. Richardson (of Armidale), waited upon the Minister for Works, and urged that…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BY special request, the City of Brisbane, steamer, one of the fleet of the Australian Steam Navigation Company, left Sydney at 7 o'clock, on Monday morning. When entering into Farm Cove, his Excellency Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE Northern districts of the colony have not been blessed by as many railway festivities as the Southern, and therefore they were in all fairness entitled to have a joyous and brilliant…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →ON the 26th of August, 1818, the foot of the white man first trod the soil of the district whose prosperous inhabitants are now gladdened by the whistle of the locomotive. Before that date the country was…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →On Saturday afternoon, as a suburban train at 2.30 a.m. was leaving the Refern Railway Terminus a little girl, who arrived late, attempted to get into a carnage when the train was in motion, in the presence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN carefully examined all labour-saving devices are simple means by which instruments and materials are more quickly and more [?] brought into juxtaposition. Man's control over nature is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As this section of railway is likely to be the next to be oponed, it may be a matter of interest to refer at some length to the progress made already, and to the particularly beneficial effect the extension is likely to have upon the…
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