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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 47
The train from Sydney was more than two hours late at Gerogery, and nearly an hour was lost before the coaches started for Albury. One hundred and sixty passengers had to be crowded into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An influential deputation waited upon the Minister for Works last Friday for the purpose of urging upon the hon. gentleman the desirableness of reducing the rates charged by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →SIr,--I am glad, in common with hundreds of other suburban passengers, to see that you are entering upon a crusade, in the interests of the public, against that most mismanaged of all departments, Le., the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--[?] it has been the intention of the railway authorities to make things as uncomfortable as possible to the public they could hardly have devised a better pain than the new platform just erected at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--In your issue of a few days ago, in contrasting the Victoria and the New South Wales railways reports, you asked how it was that our lince cost so much more than the Victorian. The cause is chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE annual report of the Commissioner for Railways was laid before Parliament on Friday evening showing the transactions of the Railway Department for the year 1879. The document, which…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LONDON, December 22.—A serious railway accident has happened on the Midland Railway, by which several passengers have been killed, and a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A deputation, consisting of the Hons. W. H. Suttor, J. Smith, P. de Salis, J. Lucas, M.'sL.C; Sir Patrick Jennings, and Messrs. Combes, Kerr, Clarke, Cass, Cooke, Bodel, Douglas, Barton, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation waited on the Minister for Works on Friday, to protest against the monopoly of the refreshment rooms on the railway lines and against selling liquors at railway stations, and to ask if it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE first; time I met Sir Thomas Wade, the British Minister at Peking, he began the conversation by remarking: that the end of Government was the preservation of the people, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Town Hall, St. Peters, on Monday evening, to consider as to what action it was desirable to adopt with reference to the route to be proposed for that portion of the contemplated…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, December 25.-A serious train accident is reported from America. A passenger train took fire near Carolina, and before the passengers could be released…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. C. A. Goodchap, has furnished the secretary for Works with an [?] report on the tramway system of this [?] its history, present condition, and future…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The soheldule price of the contrast for the railway from Gunnedah to Narrabri, announced last week as let to M'Guigan and Co., is [?]170,990. The under for the line from Dubbo to Nyagen, including…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable interest it taken in the data of the opening of the railway to Albury, and so conditions the metropolis of this colony to that of Victoria Whether the date it actually fixed or not the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bench it Newtown this morning had before them some cases is which Mr. Richardson, traffic inspector of the Railways Department, [?] on behalf of the Commissioner for Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—You did well to remind the tramway management of the necessity for pro[?]ding, additional cars on New Year's Day to meet the antic[?]pated rush of visitors to Randwick; but you forgot to take in[?]o account the 6000 or 7000 people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A narrow escape from a serious accident occurred this morning at the cutting on the Wavorly-road, near the barracks, which for the last 10 weeks has been lift in a most dangerous and diagraceful state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It often happens that discrepancies are a stronger proof of substantial accuracy than absolute uniformity, because they supply evidence of the independence of the differing authorities and of the absence of collusion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The traffic on the tram ways on Christmas Day was between 18,000 and 19,000 persons, and this was thought sufficient to fully test the powers of the lines and rolling stock. On Boxing Day, however, no less…
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