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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,314 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 66
Sir,--I cannot understand what possible object the Government could have in fixing the end of the first section of the Waverley tramway outside Paddington, instead of in the centre of it. Paddington is as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway through the St. Gothard Tunnel, which pierces the Alps, has been opened for traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is interesting to know (says the "Ironmonger ") that the Edgemoor Iron Company, of Wilmington, Del., has just completed the Nowra bridge over the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales, and we are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday an immense number of people travelled on the tram lines. We are informed that the Botany line was used by 27,300, the Waverley line by 12,270, the Redfern by over 12,000, the Randwick by 11,100,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A number of cabmen were, last night, teated rather unhandsomely by the tram authorities. A ball was given at a house in Liverpool-street, and, as usual, a rank of cabs waited the best part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The tramways were very liberally patronised, so liberally, indeed, as to show how utterly inadequate were the rolling stock and the single line which has been laid down between the metropolis and Botany. During the morning the two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is estimated that about 20,000 passengers were carried on the suburban trains, principally between Sydney and Parramatta. The average passenger traffic was not equal to that for the same day of last year. A falling off was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation from Tamworth was introduced by Mr. Levies, M.L.A., and asked the Minister for Works when tenders would be advertised for in connection with the Manilla bridge. The public were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What might have proved to be a most destructive fi[?] was discovered on the premises of the New South Wale Tailoring Company, in Bridge-street, at midnight on Thursday. The building is surrounded by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The late mayor of the Glebe, seeing the necessity of doing something to protect the residents of the main road from serious loss and annoyance, occasioned through the dreadfully dusty state of the same, tried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A stocking accident happened on the railway, near the Redfern station, on Thursday evening. As the 8.15 train from Homebush, "which is due at Sydney at 8.45 p.m., wos nearing the station and was passing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning deputation, consisting of Messrs. Gazrard and Abigail, M' Aldermers Flowers, J.P., waited upon the Minister for works, to ask that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"One who Knows," writes to complain of the management of the despatch of goods from the Redfern station. He turns the necessity for a better supply of trucks, as the mode of the present supply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday, at the District Court, Judge Josephson and a jury tried the case of Dolling v. Commissioner of Railways, ia which the plaintiff sought to recover £ 200 as damages for the alleged negligence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs H. S. Badgery, T. Rutledge, Teece, and Gannon, M's.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works this morning to ask that the proposed railway from Goulburn to Cooma, might be pushed on as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident, due entirely to a wilful neglect of precaution, occurred last evening occured last evening on the railway line just outside the Redfern railway-station. It appeared that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation from Tamworth, consisting of Messrs. N. Cohen (mayor), C. G. Lewers, A. Johnstone, W. F. Tribe, and W. T. Gosling, was introduced by Mr. H. Levien, M.L.A., to the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. H. Levien. M.L.A., introduced a deputation, consisting of Messrs. N. Cohen, Mayor of Tamworth; E. G. Lewers, A. Johnetone, W. F. Tribe, and W. T. Gosling, to the Minister for Works, yesterday morning, and said they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The extraordinary rapidity with which travellers in a hurry to get to their places of business are brought into the city by the trams was instanced in a remarkable manner yesterday evening. A gentleman…
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