Railway Accidents
Adelaide, Thursday.—A prisoner named Shepperd, at Dry Creek Labour Prison, was killed on the railway on Tuesday.—The engine on the Millicent line passed over a man named Fogerty,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1879
1,111 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 56
Railway to Hay. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The Wagga Wagga Railway Extension Committee have instructed me to correct, through your columns, certain inaccuracies that have cropped up in the Parliamentary debate, reported by you on the 19th instant, as to the best…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Locomotives for the Government Railways. To the Editor
SIR,—It will do doubt be in the recollection of your readers that some months ago "tenders for the manufacture of one hundred locomotives" in this colony, to be constructed within the next five…
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The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at his office on the body of John Ellis York, a labourer on the railway, aged 29 yean, who, while working on the line near Petersham railway station last…
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In the Jury Court, before his Honor Sir William Manning, the great railway contract action brought by William Mason, junior, and Albert Elkington against the Commissioner for Railways to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway to Hay. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Your telegram from Deniliquin iu this morning' paper states:—"Mr. Lackey's speech re the Barbour rail way motion, and the failure of the motion, appears to give great satisfaction here." It would be very curious if it a [?]…
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A public meeting of inhabitants of the municipalities of Newtown, Marrickville, Macdonaldtown, St. Peters, and West Botany was held last evening, at the Foresters' Hall, Cook's River Road, St. Peters. It was convened by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch. Sydney, 26th March, 1879. Government Railways. Great Western Line. Orange Races, 5th and 6th MARCH, 1879
TICKETS at EXCURSION RATES will be issued at all stations to Orange, on the 4th and 5th March proximo, and at Bathurst and intermediate stations on the morning of the 6th, available for return up to the 15th proximo…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 24th February, 1579. to Railway Contractors
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 29th April, 1879, from persons willing to contract for constructing the Works on the extension of the Great Northern Railway from Tamworth to Uralla, being a length of about 63½…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 26th February, 1879. Builders and Others
TENDERS will be received at this Office, untill 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 25th March, 1879, from persons willing to contract for building Goods Warehouse, Cool Stage, and Engine Pit at Werrie Creek Junction of the Great Northern Railway…
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STATION PROPERTIES.— Some properties were offered this week, and in some eases sales were effected at prices said to he all in favour of buyers. FAT CATTLE.— The improvement of last week was not…
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[This Australian story was commenced in Once a Week, but (owing to the troubles that best that literary venture) never famished, It is intended to publish the tale complete…
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A public meeting of the inhabitants of Newtown, Marrickville, Macdonaldtown, St. Peters, and Wert Botany was held on Thursday night in the Foresters' Hall, St. Peters, for the purpose of urging upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 26th March, 1879. Government Railways. Great Western Line. Orange Races, 5th and 6th MARCH, 1879
TICKETS at EXCURSION RATES will be issued at all stations to Orange, on the 4th and 5th March proximo, and at Bathurst and Intermediate stations on the morning of the 6th, available for return up to the 15th proximo…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 24th February, 1879. Railway Contractors
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 20th April, 1879. from persons willing to contract for constructing the Works on the extension of the Great Northern Railway from Tamworth to Uralla, being a length of about 63½…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 26th February, 1879. to Builders and Others
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY the 25th March, 1879, from persons willing to contract for building Goods Warehouse, Coal Stage, and Engine Pit at Werrie Creek Junction of the Great Northern Railway…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—An adjourned indigna[?]nation meeting was held yesterday for the purpose of pretesting against the dilatory conduct of the Governments of New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Blessings. To the Editor
SIR,—Through the medium of your widely circum[?] journal, I would specially draw the attention of the public to the unjustitiable privation to which those have to submit to who are so unfortunate as to reside in the Northern districts, in…
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Yesterday afternoon a shocking accident took place at the Newtown Railway Station, resulting in the death of a man, who, up to the present, has not been identified. It appears that about 2 p.m., the man passed…
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It has been officially announced that the North-Western line of railway from Weriss Creek to Gunnedah will be opened to Breeza on the 25th instant for goods and passenger traffic. This opening will to…
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