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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Mr. Sydney Smith has published a brochure containing the letters he addressed to this journal on the question of railway rates for farm produce, &c., together with the editorial comments thereupon that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. Pigott, M.L.A., waited on the Secretary for Works yesterday in reference to the proposed railway round Botany Bay. There were present, among others. Mr. A. Stuart,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation waited on the Minister, for Works yesterday, to ask him to cause a trial survey to be made in connection with the Illawarra Railway, which would deviate from the present one. It consisted of Alderman Tye, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir.--1 have no doubt that the Lon the Minister for works will consider as [?] subebamtes a most grumbling and discontented people if were not pleased and satisfied at the [?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. A, Stewart, Pigott, W. Foster, Henson, M's.P., Messrs. W. J. Judd (Mayor of St. Peter's) Bowmer (Mayor of West Botany), Tye, Perry, H. Bond, Leader…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--I think the thanks of the community are due to Mr. M'Elhone and yourself re free passes and railway management, or mismanagement. As a pretty constant traveller on one or other of the rails,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RAIL WAY travelling is fast becoming a luxury. First we had the handsome and comfortable saloon car, in place of the ordinary first-class carriage; next came the sleeping car, with its closets, lavatories, and other…
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →BY what kind of sophistry tho railway officials, responsible for the existing, and, to us, incomprehensible hostility to the farming interest, displayed in the rates for carriage of farm, as…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →SIR,—In My letters to your journal I drew attention to the high rate obarged for bags as compared to bales, and I notice in this morning's papers that the Minister for Works, in reply to a question asked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON February 1 the railway system of the colony will make another bound forward. The good people of Dubbo have made much preparation to celebrate the occasion with sufficient ceremony, and in every…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At and after the last meeting the Randwick Transit Committee collected nearly .£100 as a fund where with to subsidise a regular line of 'buses to Randwick end Coogee from the Racecourse terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An awful accident occurred to-day on the tramway line is King-street, which it fatal result. An old man, 79 years of age, named Simson Henry, living in Waratah buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Geelong correspondent of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph writes:--The dreadful heat of Wednesday last, accompanied as it was by such a high hot wind, has been very disastrous. A very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This locomotive, invented by Colonel Beaumont, Royal Engineers, has been perfected, and, we are informed, it is about to be adopted on the London and other tramways in Great Britain. A locomotive is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The poor old man Simeon Emery, who had the misfortune to fall under the wheel of the tramway car yesterday, receiving injuries which necessitated his removal to the Infirmary, died at that institution last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dubbo people, sot to be surpassed by the Albury folks is their celebration of the railway opening demonstration, have decided to issue tickets which will convey the purchaser to Dubbo and back,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As already announced, the railway to Dubbo will be opened on February 1, and that to Albury on February 3. Sir John Robertson, vice-president of the Executive Council, and several other Ministers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following arrangements have been, made for the opening of the railway extension from Wellington to Dubbo on February 1, and from Gerogery to Albury on February 3. From Wellington, to Dubbo is 30 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I would suggest that instead of the Waverley tramway line being a branch from St. Matthias Church, that it should be a continuation of the Woollahra line. The proposed route to be down Queen-street, up Nelson-street to…
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