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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 47
One of the largest fires ever known in Sydney broke out about ten minutes after 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning, at the Railway Station, Sydney. The damage has been confined to the building in which it originated, but as this was the…
Continued on Trove, page 895 →Another dreadful railway disaster has been added to the melancholy series of fatalities which have darkened the domestic annals of the past two months. Nearly all the previous accidents occurred in the northern portion of our…
Continued on Trove, page 887 →A large and influential deputation waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the claims of the Illawarra district, and praying for the construction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN influential meeting, convened by the Mayor of Ryde, was held on Wednesday in St. Ann's Hall, Ryde, to take into consideration the necessity of a tramway from Sydney across to Pyrmont and Balmain,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It is understood by many of the public that the [?] of the delay in commencing the tram line to Woollahra is that the Government are waiting for a supply of steel rails from England. This is not the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident occurred on the Western line line morning about 3 o'clock, by which a workman named Alexander Campbell, living at Miller's Point, lost his life. The train was bringing down a gang of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,âYou would be doing a public service by exposing and drawing attention to the system of conveying luggage about the Redfern Railway Station. Is it not time that the limbs of the public should be protected from the onslaught…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—A rumour has lately got abroad that the proposed [?] of railway to the Darling will not be carried driect to Bourke, but will probably be taken to Cobar, and thence to the river either at Bourke or Louth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held last night at the Glebe Townhall, St. John's Road, convened by Mr. Thomas J. Dunn, the Mayor of the Glebe, in pursuance of a requisition from a number of ratepayers and residents in that borough, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation waited on the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, last Friday, to present a memorial from a committee formed for the construction of a railway from the deep waters of Port Jackson direct…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →An accident, involving the death of two with and serious injuries to another occurred yesterday morning in the railway line under construction from Gerogery to Albury. An engine, [?] six…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,âThe management of the tramway seem determined to give the travelling public as many sources of complaint as lies within their power. They usually vary the monotony of the Randwick trip by running…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--The petition presented to the Minister of Works by the deputation is not over complimentary, and may be regarded more as a censure than a petition. It complains of "grievous injustice,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday evening Mr, Thomas Wearne addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting at Stanfield’s Hotel. Mr. Ford presided, and briefly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—I observe in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 12th instant, in a portion of Mr. Elkington's address to the electors of Balmain, at the School of Arts, on the night previous he is reported to have said:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I observe in your issue of the 6th inst. a report of a meeting held at Ryde to adopt a petition to the Government, asking for a tramway over tho new bridge. This is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—A note addressed to a mutual friend, and handed to Mr. W. Mason for perusal, will explain the matter of his letter appearing in the morning's issue:—"Office, 12-11-'80. My dear S.,—in the report or my remarks last night at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A GREAT fire recently broke out at Redfern railway terminus at half-past 12 o'clock in the morning. It originated in an oil store, and the inflammable nature of the material caused an enormous conflagration. Owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →CONFLAGRATION AT THE RAILWAY TERMINUS, SYDNEY…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking railway accident occurred on Thursday (says the Age) when the 8 O'clock Echuca train ran over a man, name unknown, near the Munday-street railway gates. The man was about 40 years…
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