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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,111 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 56
We learn that, in consequence of the interruption to divine workship in some of the city churches, by the running of the tramways on Sundays, it is intended to discontinue, for the future, the running of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. Kerr, M.L.A., and Mr. Thomas Dalton, of Orange, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday morning, for the purpose of presenting a petition from a meeting held at Orange on the 4th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Hungerford, M.P., Mr. Eckford, M.P., Mr. J. Anderson, Mr. J. Taffe, and Mr. C. Marks, formed a deputation to the Minister for Works on Friday, and represented the necessity that existed for something…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →A large deputation consisting of Messrs. M'Culloch, M.L.A., H. Taylor, M.L.A., R. Harden, J.P., F. Crane, Tuckwell, S. Noakes. J. Tamsett, W. Matchett, W. H. Suttor, S. James, and J. Black, waited upon Mr. Lackey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Globe was hold on Wednesday night, in the Wesleyan schoolroom, Globe Road, for the purpose of considering the best means to be adopted in support of the scheme of the Government for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arrangements have been made by the Railway Department to bring into operation on the 1st January & new rate for the conveyance of goods. It has been thought that the goods' traffic rate sheets which have been issued from time…
Continued on Trove, page 1089 →We understand that the passenger traffic on the railways during the Exhibition has not as yet been sufficiently large to compensate the Department for the reduction made in the fares. A much larger loss would have been sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—We notice a Paragraph in your yesterday's issue, stating that " some of the unemployed had waited on you and informed you that men as advertised for by us on the Junee and Narrandera railway contract were not required,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting of farmers in the Bathurst district was held to-night, in the School of Arts Hall, for the purpose of considering the increases which the Government propose to make in railway rates on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--A grand opportunity is afforded visitors from the antiquated countries of the Old World to inspect a specimen of scientific road-making by the gentlemen connected with the Roads Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Is there no means of averting the overcrowding of the tram-cars? I am not generally a grumbler, but it is too much of a good thing to be almost daily subjected to such inconvenience, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sin,-In the Braidwood district there are endless complaints about the irregularity of payment for rosd contracts. Several have been finished these last five months, and numerous others, for which the voucher have been sent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The large amount of public patronage bestowed on the various lines of railway during the last three days has exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the railway authorities. In fact, the coaching [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Gunnedah Police Court, on the 6th instant, before Messrs. T. K. Abbott, P.M., and T. A. Johnston, J.P., Thomas Moore was charged on suspicion with stealing a horse. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AN accident occurred at the Parramatta railway station yesterday evening, which, should later particulars not prove to the contrary, can only be characterised as culpable in the extreme;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Parranmtta railway station was, yesterday afternoon, the scene one of the most sensational, though not the most serious, accidents that has yet occurred on any of the railway lines of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first serious case of " telescoping " in connection with the railway system of the colony took place at Parramatta yesterday afternoon, and it is almost miraculous that it was not attended with fatal consequences. Hitherto the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--I was at a meeting held at the Glebe to support the Government Tramway scheme, when it was attempted to be shown by some of the speakers that the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company had not, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SYDNEY DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--In your to-day's issue, under "Breakfast to Poor Children, "appears the following:--"The placards posted through the city announced, that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about a quarter to 6 o'clock yesterday evening a railway accident, which might have resulted in an appalling loss of life, occurred at the Parramatta railway station. The reporters were on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARRAMATTA, Saturday.âThe board of inquiry adjourned for luncheon at half-past 1 o'clock this afternoon, and resumed the inquiry at 2 From the evidence it appeared that Mr. Carlisle's…
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