The Tramway to Coogee
A deputation composed of a number of the gentlemen resident of, and interested in, Randwick and Coogee, waited upon the Minister for Public Works yesterday morning, urging upon the Government to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1880
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The Projected Waverley Tram way
A WELL attended mooting was held last evening at the Council Chambers, Waverley, convened by the major in response to a requisition signed by a number of inhabitants, to consider…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Romance
One day the usually impassive Leger Sombreker (an engine-driver on the Lyons railway) was found in the engine-shed giving way to a furious storm of passion because some one had made a great stain of paint on his…
Continued on Trove, page 666 →The Railway Disaster in New Zealand
Last week we gave particulars of the fearful railway accident in New Zealand. This week our artist depicts the disaster. In order to make the illustration (which is from a sketch taken shortly after the…
Continued on Trove, page 648 →The Wallerawang-Mudgee Railway
The people of Mudgee are now in a position to appreciate the proverbial saying that a work which is well begun is half finished. Viewed from their standpoint, the branch…
Continued on Trove, page 657 →Railway Anniversary
Monday being the 25th anniversary of the opening of the first railway in New South Wales, the employes of the Railway Department marked the event with a picnic, a banquet, and a ball. It was intended originally to hold the…
Continued on Trove, page 639 →Dreadful Railway Accident
A terrible accident befell the express train from Leeds to Morecambe yesterday afternoon. The train is timed to leave Leeds at 12.15, and to reach Morecambe at 2.35. It arrived at Bentham, having made the usual stoppages, at…
Continued on Trove, page 638 →Tramway Extension to Woollahra
A deputation, consisting of Mr. W. J. Trickett (Mayor of Woollahra), Mr. W. Taylor (Mayor of Paddington), Aldermen Butcher, Neild, and Sladen, of Woollahra; Dr. Quaife, and Messrs E…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway Extension to Randwick and Coogee
Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Alderman J. See (Mayor of Randwick), C. Moore, Wall, Dr. Beid, Mr. Faithfull, and Mr. S. H. Pearce, were introduced to the Minister for Works by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cantata. Ye Railway Picnic. (Chorus of Railway Officials.)
Jupiter Pluvius ! Why so diluvious Just on this very particular day ? Instead of upsetting…
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A movement has been started in the City for the formation of a Syndicate for the construction of the Australian Transcontinental Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway to Randwick
A deputation, consisting of Mr. See, Mayor of Randwick, Messrs. C. Moore, S. H. Pearce, Dr. Read, and other gentlemen, were introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday, and brought under his notice the importance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway to Woollahra
Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Trickett (Mayor of Woollahra), Mr. Taylor (Mayor of Paddington), Messrs. Butcher, Neild, O. Thompson, 0. Lamb, Hardie, G. N. Russell, Wrench, Symonds, Sladen, and Dr. Quaife,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway to Waverley
A meeting of the residents of Waverley and vicinity was held last night, in the Council-chambers, for the purpose of urging on the Government the necessity of at once carrying out the construction of the tramway to Waverley. There…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturist and Crazier. Saturday, October 2, 1880. Railway Enterprise in New South Wales
SIR HENRY PARKES might well be excused, when at Albury, for the somewhat enthusiastic strain in which he referred to the advantages which the colony was destined to reap from the rapid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Turning the First Sod of the Wallerawang and Mudgee Railway
THE ceremony of turning the first sod of the extension of the Western Railway line from Wallerawang to Mudgee was performed on the 23rd ult. by Sir J. Robertson, K.C.M.G., in the presence of about 400 residents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commencement of the Mudgee and Wallerawang Railway
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wallerawang and Mudgee Railway
SCENE OF THE TURNING OF THE FIRST SOD OF THE WALLERAWANG AND MUDGEE RAILWAY, AT WALLERAWANG…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Mudgee Railway—Turning the First Sod. [See Illustration. Page 648]
THE ceremony of turning the first sod of the railway, an illustration of which is given, with a series [?] engravings, took place immediately after the arrival of the special train at Wallerawang, and was…
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