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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A disastrous railway accident occurred to-day at New Jersey, resulting in a terrible loss of life. Two excursion trains, containing some hundreds of passengers, came into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous railway accident occurred to-day on the New Jersey line, resulting in terrible loss of life. Two excursion trains, containing some hundreds of passengers, came into collision…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Would you kindly afford me space sufficient to notify that a petition for presentation to Parliament is being extensively signed in the metropolis in favour of the proposed bridge from North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Mudgee readers and others will be glad to learn that the tender for the first section of the railway from Wallerawang to Mudgee has been accepted. The successful tenderers are Messrs, Monie and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders for the construction of 22 miles 50 chains of railway, from Wallera towars Mudgee, being the first section of the railway to Mudgee, were opened yesterday, at the Pubic Works Department…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In an action heard in the Supreme Court, this morning. James Nedim, publican, sued the Commissioner for Railways for £1000 damages, as compensation for injuries received in a collission which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the competition between French and Italian railway companies for the construction of a railway in Tunis, the Consuls of the respective countries have become…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation from the Clarence district, consisting of Mr. S. G. Davidson, Mr. John See, J.P., and Mr. S. Bathgate was introduced to the Minister for Works by Mr. John Davies, M.L.A., for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE extension of the great Southern railway from South Wagga to Gerogery, a distance of 59 miles, is to take place on the 1st proximo. A new time-table has been prepared, and will come into force on that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a ease in which the jury were called on to assess the damage to he awarded to the plaintiff, James Nadin, landlord of the Steam Packet Hotel, Circular Quay, for injuries received by him on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. John Davies, M.L.A., and consisting of Mr. John See, J.P., Mr. S. G. Danson, J.P. and Mr. S. Buthgate, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask that, as money had already been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Your correspondent "North Shore," says that, 12,000 persons bare signed a petition in favour of the above bridge. A visitor to St Leonard's has to pay 4d for a trip over and back, yet the present…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. N. Melville, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Mines yesterday, for the purpose of requesting that the road from Wallsend to Lake Macquarie, would be opened as soon as possible, as it was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—A paragraph in to-day's Herald sta[?]es that " Aldermen had already shown their desire to make experiments in road-making." Is it not strange that, in those modern times, experiments should be necessary, when, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In my last (says our Tamworth correspondent) I expressed a fear that some accident would occur unless the fencing in of the line were not proceeded with more rapidly. So it has happened. It may be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE extension of the great Southern railway from South Waggs to Gerogery, a distance of 59 miles, is to take place on the 1st proximo. A new tome-table has been prepared, and will come into force on that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A collision has occurred on the Midland railway. The Scottish express overtook in the Blealor tunnel a train bound to Carlisle, which was at a standstill owing to the failure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report of the Court of Inquiry into the Tay Budge disaster has at last been issued. The Court consisted, it will be remembered, of the Wreck Commissioner, Mr. Rothery, and of two export assessors, Colonel Yolland and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—The decision lately arrived at by the Executive, as to the opening a road from the township of Dandaloo, on the Bogan, to that of Timbrebongie, on the Macquaries, in order to bring the Bogan, Cobar, and back country traffic to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This was on action for damages for non-delivery of goods received by the railway authorities at Singleton for carriage to Sydney. The goods were lost between Newcastle and Sydney while being carried by the A.S. N. Company, with…
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