Government Tramways
After a spirited contest for supplying the Government with the cubic sats for the new tramways, the tender of Mr. Johe Wood, of Wood, Barbour, and Co., Sydney, is the lowest, and, we understand, that…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1880
922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 47
Opening of the Railway to Wellington. Return of the Ministerial Party
THE Mizisterial party left Wellinet at 3.39 a [?] for Sydney on Wednesday. At 6 o'clock Orange was reached, and Balburst a little before 8. The morning was beautifully clear and frosty. On the return…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extension of the Railway to Wellington. (By Our Won Reporters.)
A special train, to convey the Ministers and members of Parliament to Wellington, left the Redfern station at twenty-five minutes past 11 o'clock on Monday night. There were altogether about sixty gentlemen on board,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deputations. Railway to Cobar
A DEPUTATION, accompanied by Mr. Simson, Mr. Terry, and Mr. J. Davies, M.L.A.'s, and composed of gentlemen interested in the Cobar copper mines and the other resources of the surrounding districts,…
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Tenders are invited for the continuation of the eastern system of tramways from Darlinghurst courthouse, Oxford-street, to Waverley and Woollabra, and the time for the reception of tenders will…
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A deputation, consisting of Mr. Tyler (Mayor of Wallsend), Alderman W. B. Hogg, Mr. Richardson (Mayor of Plattsburg), and Alderman Dobson, were introduced by Mr. N. Melville, M.L.A., to the Minister for Works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plattsburg and Minmi Road
Mr. Richardson (Mayor of Plattsburg), Alderman Dobson (Plattsburg), Mr. Tyler (Mayor of Wallsend), and Alderman Hogg (Wallsend), were introduced as a deputation by Mr. N. Melville…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deputations. a Road for the Clarence District
Mr. John M. Purves waited on the Minister for Mines last Friday, with reference to a road lately surveyed from the sugar farms, at Southgate, to the Sugar Company's mill, and a private mill at the…
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Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. C. Simson, M.L.A.; Mr. J. Davies, M.L.A.; Mr. S. H. Terry, M.L.A.; Messrs. E. A. Acres, John Pope, A Harcourt, J. Broomfield, Curtis, Greenhill, G. Hardie, J. de V. Lamb,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extension of the Railway to Wellington. Description of the Line and District
The railway from Crange to Wellington will extend the Great Western railway 54 3/4 miles further in the direction of the Upper Darling than the terminus previously opened to the public at Orange. The new section of the line begins at…
Continued on Trove, page 1036 →The Pace of Railway Construction
The event of the week has been the opening of the line from Orange to Wellington—a distance of about 56 miles, making the length of the line from Sydney a little under…
Continued on Trove, page 1041 →Connection of the Great Northern Railway with Sydney
Messrs. Cohen, Charles, H. H. Brown, Badgery, and Fawcett, Ms.L.A., Mr. J. G. Chalmers (Mayor of East Maitland), and Messrs. J. M. Brunker and J. H. Heaton waited upon the Minister for Works, on 29th ultimo, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1045 →Railway Extension to Cobar
The subject of the railway extension to Cobar was brought under the notice of the Minister for Works yesterday by a deputation introduced by Messrs. John Davies and E. Terry, Ms.L.A., and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accommodation at Burwood
A deputation, consisting of the Rev. G. Hurst, and Messrs. E. T. Peafold, C. H. Humphrey, M. E. Saunders, and. W. Archer, waited on the Minister of Works yesterday, to ask that temporary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway to Illawarra. II.—AGRICULTURE, &c
Railway communication would open to the public, more than a quarter of a million acres of virgin Crown lands, which, if sold by auction, would bring in sufficient to pay for a railway as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Opering of the Railway to Wellington. (By Electric Telegraph.) (From Our Special Reporter.)
THE ceremony of opening the extension of the railway from Orange to Wellington took place at noon on Tuesday; the length of the extension being 54 miles 50 chains, making a total distance of 247 miles 40…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Northern Railway
The Minister for Works received a deputation on Friday, composed of Mr. Cohe[?], Mr. Charles, Mr. H. H. Brown, Mr. Badgery, Mr. Fawcatt, M.L.A's, Mr. J. Brunker, Mr. G. C. Chambers, and Mr. J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Novel Pedo-Motor
THE annexed engraving represents a new device for accelerating the motion of walking. It seems to occupy an intermediate position between the roller skate and the velocipede. The invention consists of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wellington. the Latest Extension of the Great Western Railway. Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the Town. First Glimpse
SIXTY-THREE years have passed since a small band of white men of temperate habits, of eminent courage, and of enthusiastic dispositions, left Sydney to explore the country beyond the Blue Mountains,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Railway Works, Orange to Wellington. Length of Extension Opened
The length of the extension opened on Tuesday —from Orange to Wellington—is 54 miles 50 chains. The coniractor was the late William Watkins, but the work was completed by his executors. The…
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