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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 47
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Binsted, Andrews, Withers, H. Palmer, Cooke, Gormley, Walters, Starling, and E. C. Batt, waited upon the Minister for Works, yesterday, for the purpose of urging that the proposal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Badgery and Thompson, M.s'P., introduced a deputation yesterday to the Minister for Public Works with a petition praying for the immediate construction of the Manaro railway via Queanbeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. LACKEY informed Mr. Barbour, for Dr. Bowkor, that the two months which have elapsed since the closing of the Exhibition were the two worst in the year for traffic, as many persons who in warmer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON the Paris-Marseilles line the "lightning train" makes the distance of 539 miles between these two cities in 15 hours and 21 minutes, the average speed, including stoppages, being 35 miles an hour. The…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →PARRAMATTA, Monday.—Early yesterday morning a goods train on the Western line ran into the railway gates on the Sydney road crossing. This obstruction has met with a similar fate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Benalla was reached at half-past 1 o'clock, and there Superintendent Hare, with eight troopers and their horses, were taken on board. We were now about to enter the Kelly country, and caution…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious railway accident occurred in South Texas, in which 17 person were killed and a great many were wounded. Two cars on the South Pacific narrow-guage line jumped off the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The construction of a Bridge across Poet Jackson that will connect Sydney with the North Shore, is now generally admitted to be only a question of time. The accomplishment of the work, however, may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A strenuous effort is being made by a number of leading citizens and others interested in the progress of North Shore, to induce the Government to undertake the task of constructing a high-level bridge. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The goods train, bound from Singleton to Newcastle, last evening came to a sudden stoppage at West Maitland. It seems that the engine on running into the station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Presuming it is the desire of the Government to make the tramway business as remunerative as possible, I should be glad to learn why the times of departure from the Redfern Terminus cannot be made to better suit the arrival…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Benalla was reached at half-past 1, and there Superintendent Hare, with eight troopers and their horses, was taken on board. We were now about to enter the Kelly country, and caution was necessary, as the moon was…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mr. Coonan, M.L.A. and Mr. Daniels, of Bourke, waited upon the Minister for Public Works for the purpose of asking that the Government should have the two main roads passing through Bourke put in repair, and that bridges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last Friday Mr. W. C. Browne, the representative of Singleton, introduced to the Minister for Public Works a deputation from Manilla, asking that the Government would proceed with the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A special train left Melbourne on Sunday night with re-inforcements of police, and the Queensland black trackers under Inspector O'Connor. Benalla was reached at half-past 1 o'clock, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Searcely anything has occurred in the history of the colonies that has caused such excitement as the capture of the Kelly gang. The four desperadoes who constituted this formidable alliance of criminals, which for…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A youth, named Harrison, a timekeeper on the railway works, between Port Augusta and Government Guus, was seriously injured yesterday while attempting to pass from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A citizen of Howard-street was picking his teeth at his gate the other noon after a hearty dinner, when a tramp came round the corner and halted before him. " No use ! " said the citizen; " I've no food for tramps." " I didn't ask you for any, did I?" answered…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Compared with the Elizabeth-street line, the extension of tramway in the direction of Randwick is being pushed on with lightning rapidity, demonstrating that such works ara much more quickly executed under contracts than under a systen…
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