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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Woollahra was held on Wednesday at the Town Hall of that suburb in accordance with the terms of a requisition to the Mayor to take into consideration the question…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Railways moved the second rending of the Railway Bill. The Bill, he said, was identical with the one introduced last Session. It provided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, -- Allow me space enough to inform your readers how absurdly "slow" our paternal Government officials are, and to suggest what should be done with the whole of the department. I believe it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST Friday a deputation, consisting of Mr. Alex. Bowman, M.L.A., and Messrs. J. T. Smith, Bernard Conlan, William Rose, and Richard Hayes waited upon the Hon. Dr. Renwick, Minister for Mines, in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LONDON, June 13.—The opposition to the erection of a bridge over the Forth has at length been overcome…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Joan T. Smith, Bernard. Conlon, William Rose, and Richard Hayes, accompanied by Mr Alexander Bowman, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Mines, on the 16th instant, to urge the desirableness of a new survey…
Continued on Trove, page 1011 →A man named Charles Meder evidently wanted, yesterday morning to see the relative strength of his horse and the approaching motor, for he slowly led the animal and cart on to the line in Elizabeth-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All sorts of rumors are afloat with reference to the Globe tramway and its phenomenal opening. The fact of a few men engaged in repairing the line no doubt gave rise to a prevailing impression that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →James Martin was this morning charged at the Central Police Court with attempting to get into a tram way carriage while it was in motion. The offence took place on Saturday afternoon, and it might be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 7 o'clock on Saturday night a serious accident occurred to a little girl at the corner of the Waverley tramline turning from the Bondi-road to Charing Cross. It appears that the tram was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has often been pointed out that this Railway age has developed a universal craze for dash and hurry. Everybody insists upon having everything done at once and in a minute. The malady seems even to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We announced in our issue of Saturday that there railway extensions, viz.. Hay, Uralla. and Boggrabri, were to be opened on July i next. The openings of the two last-named, however, hare been postponed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after 2 o' clock this morning an accident of a painful nature happened to one of the [?] employed in the Locomotive Department at the [?] Railway Station. Whilst at work [?] one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning a deputation from the Sydney Corporation, consisting of tho Mayor (Mr. J. Harris), and Aldermen Scarr and Fowler, and the Town Clerk and City Surveyor, waited upon Mr. C. A. Goodchap,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A carter named Charles Dyke, in the employ of Messrs. Whitehead and Co., had a rather unpleasant experience yesterday evening of the tram rails in Botany-street. It seems that between 6 and 7…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—There seems to be just now a craze about the alleged danger of entering a tramcar when slowly moving. Some fines have been imposed, and others threatened. At the same time we have been informed that in London and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most enthusiastic, unanimous, and orderly meeting was held in the School of Arts, last night, to meet the delegates from Tenterfield on the question of railway extension to New England. The Mayor occupied the chair, and the hall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The opening of the Hay railway line to Hay on the 4th promises to induce a largo attendance of visitors to the scene of the ceremony from this colony as well as several of the Ministry from Victoria. It has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scarcely a day passes without some accident or stoppage occurring on the Waverley line. On Monday two trams were stuck up—first in Liverpool-street, and again on Barrack Hill. On the last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ways of the tramway authorities are peculiar. There is a by-law against overcrowding cars, and another forbidding persons to either get in or alight while the cats are in motion. The first…
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