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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Required TENDERS for the undermentioned works, viz.:— Forming, meeting, and blinding 385 lineal yards of road approaches to Rooty Hill Station. Specification and forms of tender may be seen at Post-Office, Eastern Creek. Forming and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 3rd June, from persons willing to contract for the construction of Engine Shed, Tank Framing, Engine Pits and Coal Stage at Gunnedah Station…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 17th June, 1879, from persons willing to contract for building three (or more) Gate Houses, on the extension from Orange to Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TICKETS at Excursion Rates will be issued at all stations to all Stations, for distances over 30 miles on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 23rd and 24th May, and for distances under 30 miles on the 24th May only, available for return for one week…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day there wore about 20 men engaged constructing the Sydney tramway. The work was commenced in Pitt-street of sections, at the back of Christ Church. Already a shallow excavation 15 inches deep has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after MONDAY next, the 26th May, the undermentioned Sub[?]rban Trains will stop at the abovenamed Platform when required, to pick up and set down passengers:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TICKETS at Excursion Rates, will be issued at all Stations to all Station, for distances over 30[?]miles on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 23rd and 24th MaY, and for distances under 80 miles on the 24th May only, available for return for one week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Noticing our leader in to-day's Herald respecting the present mode of collecting tickets at the Sydney terminus, I wish to make the following remarks:— That as the London Metropolitan and Suburban Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. John Sutherland, M.L.A., Mr. Trickett (Mayor of Wollahra), Mr. Taylor (Mayor of Paddington), and Messrs. Artlett, Nield, Humphrey, and Butchart, waited on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales has set an example worthy of imitation by lighting the railway trains with gas. In these days of railway progress it was not to be expected that the old style of lighting carriages would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I observed, in your issue of Tuesday last, a letter on the above subject, and I am happy to observe that the authorities have taken notice of it, and adopted remedial measures. The nuisance complained of by your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation yesterday waited on the Hon. the Minister for Works, with reference to the bad state of repair in which the Glenmore and Point Piper roads were. The deputation, which was introduced by Mr. John Sutherland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALTHOUGH Sergeant Barton had found no difficulty in getting one or two “hands” to promise to bury the bushranger, he had been compelled to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The railway traffic employees' festival took place to-day, and was in every respect a great success. Instead of the annual special railway excursion, the festivities this year comprised a marine excursion to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the recent alteration made by the Executive to the time-table of the Goulburn and Western Railways, by which a vast addition to the number of trains into and out from Sydney has been made, the duties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. William Pratt, Mr. R. Harper, Mr. W. Drew, Mr. Brown, Mr. Ellison, and Mr. Hilder, yesterday, waited on the Hon. the Minister for Works with reference to train[?] stopping at the platform at Parra[?]matta Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after MONDAY next, the 16th instant, the ordinary Passenger Trains will stop at the abovementioned platform, to pick up and set down passengers. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after MONDAY next, the 16th May, the undermentioned Suburban Trains will stop at the [?]bovenamed Platform when required, to pick up and set down passengers:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →As will be remembered, fo[?]ne time past the idea of improving the lighting of our [?]way carriages has occupied the attention of the authorities [?], though many experiments have been made, for [?]son or another, the old…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Goods will be received or delivered on the above day at the Re[?]fem Goods Shed, but arrangements will be made for the de[?]r of [?]ve Stock and Perishables up to 10 a.m…
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