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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Pending the progress of the survey, the railway agitation has been allowed to rest. The fact that Arnheim's party has completed the survey of the mountain winding track with full-speed gradients throughout, and that Robertson's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The working of the Glebe, Glebe Point, sad Forest Lodge lines on Tuesday was a decided failure so far as being a convenience to the public is concerned. Of coarse, every allowance must be made for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual report of the Board of Land and Works on the Victorian railways has been published. The debentures debit railway account now stands at £17,672,460. The amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →That great civilizer and stanch friend of progress, the railway locomotive, is gradually but surely forcing his way across the fertile black-soil plains and through the denso serubs of the North-western districts of the colony. His…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Eckford and Henry Clarke, M's.L.A., introduced a deputation from Pelican Flats to the Minister for Works, in order to ask that the road from Pelican Flats to Gosford might be cleared and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a recent meeting of the commission which is sitting in Melbourne on the Tramway Bill, the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, gave the following testimony in favour of tramways :—"I have travelled a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN Sheedy yesterday came up, on remand, at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Crane, charged that he, being an engine-driver in the employ of the New South Wales Government, did, by his negligent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning Mr. H. Clarke and J. P. Garvan, the members for Eden, and Mr. E. J. Coleman, of Candelo, waited upon Mr. Lackey, to urge upon him the necessity of pushing on the construction of a line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning the Hon. the Minister for Works received a deputation, introduced by Mr. Pigott. M.L.A., and consisting of Messrs. Henson and Murray, M's.L.A., Alderman Holborrow, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Sheedy was charged before Mr. Crane, S.M., at the Central Police Court with (he being au enginedriver employed on the Government tramways) so negligently driving a steam motor on the 11th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New South Wales, arrived in the capital of the colony yesterday afternoon, and it may safely be asserted that never was a colonial statesman accorded so enthusiastic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 11th instant, a deputation, consisting of the Hon, L. F. de Salis, M.L.C., Mr. T. Rutledge, M.L.A., and Mr. Sale, waited as a deputation upon the Hon, Minister for Mines to ask that the following roads in the district of Queanbeyan might be opened:—…
Continued on Trove, page 315 →Messrs. H. Clarke and Eckford, Ms.L.A., and a number of gentlemen from Pelican Flats waited on the Minister for Works. The deputation urged that the road from Pelican Flats to Gosford might…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the bell was striking the hour ; And the moon lit the tumbl'd waters, While murky clouds did lower…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Spanish mining engineer, Don Horacio Bentabol, I has invented & safety Apparatus for tramcars, which is to be submitted to a trial very shortly. Two metal plates are fitted outside the wheels. They are turned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I would like to make known, through the medium of your valuable paper, the existence of a wide-spreading evil in connection with the carrying on of the public works of the colony. I…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →John Sheedy was brought before Mr. Crane, S. M., at the Central Police Court, on Saturday, having been given into custody charged that he, being employed by the Government as the driver of a motor on the tramway line, did so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John Sheedy was brought before Mr. Crane, S. M., at the Central Police Court, on Saturday, having been given into custody charged that he, being employed by the Government as the driver of a motor on the tramway line, did so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Our Sydney tramways are street-lines except the one to Bandwick, and that is so far superior to the others in point of speed, economy, and comfort, as to clearly prove that steam, should be kept off the streets whenever practicable…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The annual report of the Board of Land and Works on the Victorian Railway was laid before Parliament today. The authorised apportionment of the four million loan shows £2,732,055 to be available for railway…
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