Management of the Newtown Road
A deputation from Newtown, yesterday, requested the Minister for Works to place the management of the Newtown Road under trustees, in view of the contemplated restoration of tolls…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1879
1,111 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 56
The Mystery of Wiseman’s Ferry Road. CHAPTER XVIII—(continued.)
THE effect of the excitement produced by the heart-broken old father a abrupt demonstration of love and compassion were fatal, or rather it acted, as the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The railway traffic returns have largely increased during the last few weeks. An immense increase in agricultural freight during the coming harvest is anticipated…
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THE success of one tramway has created a general desire for more of the same kind, and every suburb considers that it should share the advantages of the "steam-motor." Only a short lime since that fossiliferous…
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To-day the tramcars met nearly every train to and from Sydney. Each trip the motor drew two tramcars instead of one as formerly. We understand that next week the care will run every 10 minutes…
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Yesterday morning a very numerous deputation waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, to urge the importance of introducing a system of suburban tramways, and to request that a sum of money be placed upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Question. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I was very much pleased to see in your issue of this morning, a letter by " Pro Bono Publico" upon the above subject, which throws some light upon this most important matter. I have trespassed upon your valuable space in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deputations. Railway to Hay
On Tuesday an influential deputation, representing Sydney and the districts of Riverina, waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, to present a petition, praying that tenders for the construction of the line between…
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On the 10th instant a deputation, consisting of the Hon. James Watson, Colonial Treasurer; Messrs. R. M. Vaugban, J.P., W. B. Howarth, and George Rich, representing Grenfell; W.T.Coonan, M.L.A., and John Thomas,…
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On Wednesday a deputation consisting of Mr. W. A. Brodribb, Mr. Shepherd, M.L.A. Mr. Jamieson, Mr. J. Andrew, and others interested in Riverina, waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, to suggest the…
Continued on Trove, page 667 →Disastrous Railway Collision at Michigan. London. Oct. 11
Telegraphic advices from America announce that a disastrous railway collision lias occurred at Michigan. Twenty-five persona were killed and forty wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 661 →Railways for Riverina. [Communicated]. Railway Extension to Hay
The gentlemen who are so warmly advocating the extension of the railway to Hay, amongst whom I am glad to see some influential men, with large direct interest in the rich districts under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deputations. Extension of the Railway to Hay
An important deputation, introduced by Mr, John Davies, M.L.A., waited on the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, last Tuesday, on the subject of the extension of the railway from Narandera to…
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A deputation, composed of the Hon. James Watson, Colonial Treasurer (as representative of the Lachlan), Messrs. R. M. Vaughan, J.P., W. B. Howarth, and George Rich, representing Grenfell,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Australian Town & country Journal Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 18, 1879. How Soon is Hay to Have a Railway?
IT is an excellent sign of the complete identification of Riverina with the rest of New South Wales that the people of Hay and the district of Oxley are most…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Pyrmont Railway Gate. To the Editor
SIR.—Can you inform me why the manager here will persent in having the gaten locked at (6 o'clock in the evening. Now, don't a you agree with me that they might leave them open for a limited tine, say 8 ; or, hot tar (sill, put up a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—If Government be guided in the matter of railroad making by the petitions and persuasion of persons directly interested, the iron horse will in time become as common as the cart horse, and if, we do not see sidings into every barn,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence. the Tramway. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--If the tramway is intended to be a public convenience, and not a luxury for a favoured, few, some provision should be made to increase the accommodation it affords. Yesterday, and on two previous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway to Albury. Albury, October 16, 1879
As the completion of the railway to Albury is a mutter of great interest to a large number of your readers, and to residents both in New South Wales and Victoria, I have obtained some particulars of…
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