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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,314 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 66
Subject to parliamentary approval, the Cabinet have accepted the offer of Messrs. Shaw and Blyth, on behalf of the Australian Syndicate, to construct a land grant railway from the terminal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government has accepted the tender of Messrs. Forster and Brigg fat the construction of a second line of tramway from the workshops to Randwick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A number of tramway employes met on Tuesday evening at Turner's Hall, Elizabeth-street, in order to take into consideration the advisability of petitioning the Commissioner for Railways fo an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This morning the Minister for Lands received a deputation consisting of Messrs. John Browne and Alex Bowman, M's.L.A., Messrs, Parnell and W. Pearce (Jerry's Plains), and Thos. Ellis (Broke), who presented…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government have concluded with Messrs. Shaw and Blyth, on behalf of the Australian syndicate, a provisional agreement for the construction of a land grant railway from the termiml point of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—In so far as your correspondents, "Henry Maurico" and "Tablelander," condemn the proposal for a North Coast railway, and urge the advantages to accrue to th[?] districts and to the colony from a line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Wednesday Mr. Ryrie M.L. A., introduced a deputation to the Hon. the Minister for Mines, consisting of Messrs. Blatchford, Wilson, M'Donald, and Hassall. The deputation asked that a survey should…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Messrs. Ecktord and Henry Clarke, Ms.L.A., introduced a deputation from Pelican Plats 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 38 →A deputation, consisting of the mayor of Petersham, and Aldermen Barrell and On bitt, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask that the Government would contribute towards the cost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. T. R. SMITH, M.P., has receive the following letter and handed it to us for publication:— " Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The deputation then requested that a road should be opened from Buddabadah to Warren, which would be highly necessary, owing to the wool traffic between those places…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The same gentlemen brought before the notice of the Minister for Works the necessity of widening the travelling stock read from Bourke to the Bogan River. it was shewn the route was used…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The same deputation presented a [?] requesting that roads might be opened from Cobar to Nymagee, Nymagee to Nyngan, and Cobar to Girilambone ; and that the road from Cobar to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is a prospect at length of tramway business in Sydney being carried on in a manner similar to the system which has made this most perfect of all street locomotion so popular in London, New York, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The case against John Sheedy, the engine-driver, was concluded at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. Several witnesses were called for the defence. Counsel, having addressed the Bench,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of the charge against John Sheedy, who was employed by the Government a[?] the driver of a motor on the tramway line, for so negligently driving as to endanger the lives of certain other persons, was continued in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Brown, M.L.A., Mr. A. Bowinan, M.L.A., and Messrs. W. Parnell, W. Pearce, and Thomas Ellis, waited upon the Minister for Works to precent a petition asking that a light railway…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Last month a great work was accomplished and solemnly inaugurated, which justly may be called a triumph of human skill and science, i.e., the railway between Lucerne and Milan, across the Alps, for the St. Gothard route has…
Continued on Trove, page 338 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. H. Clarke, M.L.A., Mr. J. P. Garvan, M.L.A., and Mr. E. G. Coleman (of Candelo), waited upon the Minister for Works on the 11th instant, to urge upon him the importance of constructing, as soon as possible, a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 355 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. Roscby, M.L.A., Mr. H. Clarke, M.L A., Mr. W. Fraser Martin, M.L.A., Dr. Tarrant, M.L.A., Mr. Garvan, M.L.A., Hon. J. Marks. M.L.C., and Messrs. J. Thompson, J.P., J. Warden, J.P., E. M'Mahon, J.P., J. M'Arthur, J.P.,…
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