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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of the Hon. Thos. Bent, Minister for Railways, was presented to the House to-day, It states that 3600 yards of gravel were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is rumoured that one cause of the delay in laying the second line of tramway to Waverley is the scarcity of steel rails, and that the cause of this is the omission by the department in its contract…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway returns for the year 1881 show a clear profit of 5 31 per cent. on the capital inverted in lines actually open for traffic. Some short time ago a reduction in the existing railway rates was agitated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious accident happened yesterday evening, at the South-road crossing of the Glenelg railway, when the quarter-past 6 o'clock from Glenelg to Adelaide. Onreaching the crossing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A train, on its way from Glenelg to Adelaide, ran into a waggon drawn by four horses, on the south road crossing, this evening. Three of the horses were killed, and the driver of the waggon was thrown over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Commissioner for Railways has authorised us to give publicity to the fact that the railway transactions of the New South Wales Government for 1881, the details of which have just been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner continued the inquiry at his chambers yesterday morning on the body of Mrs. Tabitha Elizabeth Poole, wife of Air, Thomas Poole, draper, who was killed when alighting from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OWING, no doubt, to the threatening aspect of the weather, only a moderate number of spectators assembled on the racecourse at the Cross-roads, a short distance from the township of Liverpool. The course is a very good piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →SIR,—The inconceivable delay which has taken place in the completion of tramways to the Glebe district, and the manner in which the numerous deputations, the results of public meetings, have been met and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of the inhabitants of Waverley was held in the Council Chambers last evening, the object of which was to take into consideration the inconvenience attending the present management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A short time since the Minister for Railways called on the traffic manager for a report as to the best means of securing the traffic of Riverina grown wool on Victorian lines. The report…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent writes :-Observing from a paragraph in Friday's "News " that Government are at last about to lower the rates on goods, owing to the success attendant on the increased length of lines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of residents of Waverley and its vicinity was held in the Council-chambers, Waverley, last night, to consider what steps might be taken to lay before the Government the present inconvenient method in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I was a passenger yesterday evening by the Waverley tram, leaving Hunter-street at 6.23. We stopped at Begg-street, Paddington, and, at, usual, the tram from the other end was late, in consequence of which we were kept…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 19th instant, respecting the rates charged for the conveyance of wool from Hay to Sydney, and asking whether I am prepared to enter into some mutual arrangement with your department…
Continued on Trove, page 918 →A train, on its way from Glenelg to Adelaide, ran into a waggon drawn by four horses, on the south road crossing, this evening, Three of the horses were killed, and the driver of the waggon was thrown over…
Continued on Trove, page 936 →At the monthly meeting of directors of the Rand wick Asylum, held on Wednesday, the order of the day "notices of motion" having been called, Mr. JOSEPHSON said there was a matter which he wished…
Continued on Trove, page 936 →The City Coroner resumed the inquiry at his chambers, yesterday morning, on the body, of Mrs. Tabitha Elizabeth Poole, wife of Mr. Thomas Poole, draper, who was killed when alighting from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 31.—A collision has occurred between two trains at Wieblingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. A number of the railway carriages were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, June 4.—The station of the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Quebec has been totally destroyed by fire…
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