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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The junction of King and Elizabeth streets was, yesterday afternoon, the scene of a terrible accident, which was witnessed by a crowd of horrified spectators, and resulted in an old man 79 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision occurred on the Bundaberg line yesterday between some empty trucks running down and an engine with loaded trucks going up. A man named Charles O'Driscoll was so severely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent [?] on the subject of the inconvenience [?] passengers getting into the wrong cars at night, and so being carried to some place other than that they wish to go to. He states…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious railway accident occurred at Beaufort yesterday. A goods train collided with a passenger train, and seven passengers were injured; two of them were sent to the Ballarat hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday a large deputation waited upon the Minister for Works to urge the necessity for having a new trial survey made in connection with the railway from Newcastle to Sydney. Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--In your Parliamentary report to-day I am reported as having informed the hon. Colonial Treasurer that the trees in Belmore Park are planted so close as not to admit of standing room. What I stated was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The arrangements for the opening of the line from Wellington to Dubbo provide for two trains leaving Redfern station on Monday night. One for Ministers, members of Parliament, and others, will leave…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Forgusson, the member for Glen Innes, is about to move in the House for the construction of a continuation of the northern railway, and last evening gave notice of motion for Tuesday, February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the New England railway committee, yesterday afternoon, it was decided to write to the members for Graf ton and the Clarence as to what further action they would advise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To prevent against such accidents as that which happened on Monday last to the nufortunate man named Simon Emery, a correspondent recommends the use of sideboards (overlapping the wheels) on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A serious railway accident occurred at Beaufort this afternoon, when the passenger train was run into by a goods train, and seven passengers injured; two of them, severely hurt, were brought to Ballarat Hospital; and a…
Continued on Trove, page 183 →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 183 →An inquest was held on Tuesday, by the acting Coroner, at his office, touching the death of Simeon Emery, who died at the Infirmary on Monday night from injuries received on the tramway on Monday. Superintendent Roberts, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 176 →THIS locomotive, invented by Colonol Boaumont, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →AN elderly man, Simeon Emery had the misfortune to fall under the wheel of the tramway car on Monday receiving [?]juries which[?] his romoval to the Infirmary,where the died the same…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, introdnecd Dy Mr. Pigott, M.L.A. waited on the Secretary for Works on Friday reference to the proposed railway round Botany Buy. There were present, among others, Mr. A. Stuart,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A most audacious attack on the property and house of a selector on the Wagga-road is reported to have taken place on the 20th instant. The following particulars are given by a Wagga contemporary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As we have already announced, the railway extensions to Dubbo and Albury will both be opened during the present week. The following particulars respecting the new lines and the alterations in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the 8 p.m. train from Sandhurst to Echoes, on Friday night roached Goornong station (the M.A. Mail states), the postmistress observed an old man sitting on the step of a second-class carriage and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An important section of that network of railways, which Sir William Denison long ago prophesied is to cover the whole of this colony, will to-morrow be thrown open for public traffic—the extension from Wellington to Dubbo, a…
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