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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir. P. A. Jennings, and Messrs. Collier, Halliday, and Gresley Lukin, arrived by the steamer Keilawarra from Melbourne, as representatives of a company to make railway branches on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the courtesy of the Railway Branch of the Works Department, we are in possession of the figures of the successful tenderers for the tramway line between Campbelltown and Camden. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation from the City Railway Extension Committee waited on the Secretary for Works thus morning. It was introduced by Mr. A. Stuart, M.P., and comprised Messrs. Brodribb, Martin, Reid,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, accompanied by Messrs. Garrard, Pigott Cameron, Marun, and Purves, M.'sL.A., interviewed the Minister for Public Works yesterday, requesting that an opening, by swing or other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE massive and substantial character of this structure, so familiar to those visiting the South Australian capital, of which Port Adelaide practically forms part, is well shewn in our illustration, which represents the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Attention is directed to Gazette Notice inviting Tenders for andermentioned work, viz.:— Time for Receipt of Tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE subjects of our illustration will bring home to every observant and thinking person the manifest difference between the lumbering dangerous concerns forced upon the streets of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →IF it were possible to believe that the Government needed to be informed as to the condition or the public mind on the question of the extension or the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our illustration gives a good idea of the tramway proposed by Mr. G. Stevenson before the British Association in 1878. The engraving almost explains itself. The rails are supported by strong wrought iron clips, suspended from…
Continued on Trove, page 71 →For readers unfamiliar with electrical motors (says the Scientific American) it may be necessary to say that the power for the running of the electric…
Continued on Trove, page 72 →A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times contributed the following information to that journal with reference to the street railroads of San Francisco:—"I think I may fairly-claim that street railroads built San Francisco. If it…
Continued on Trove, page 71 →An unusually large and influential deputation waited upon the Minister for Public Works yesterday morning, to urge upon the Government the necessity of taking immediate steps to extend the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--I read with interest and pleasure Mr. Thos, Williams' reply to mine contained in your issue of Monday last, and I think all will agree with me when I say that instead of a denial the reply substantiated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE extension of the Great Northern Railway from Tamworth to Uralla under Messrs. A. and R. Amos is rapidly approaching completion. Few are aware what a gigantic undertaking the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →LONDON, July 1.—The mysterious murder committed in a train on the Brighton railway line is occupying the attention of the police and railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ONE of the largest meetings ever held in Forbes took place last night in Bray's Assembly Rooms, to consider the extension of the railway to Forbes. The Mayor (Mr. Geo. Hutchinson)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Central Police Court this morning, Michael Norton, a drover, was charged with using indecent language in a railway carriage. Evidence was given to show the prisoner was a passenger by the 12.10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday morning a collision between two goods trains occurred at Tallarook railway station. The 7.20 a.m. goods train from Seymour had just entered the station and was in the act of being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July 9.—The police have arrested a man at Stepney, on suspicion of being the person who recently committed the atrocious murder in a railway carriage…
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