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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,314 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 66
Sir,--Please allow me to refer to some of the habitually objectionable proceedings occurring on the line between Sydney and Botany. One tramcar leaves the station from the north, and stops at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The days went by, and we had lived a good while without any body Laving come near up, so we never thought of there being any danger. We had no neighbours, you know, and folks couldn't see us from the road. We were so hidden…
Continued on Trove, page 883 →Another railway " smash" occurred last night near Douglas. The nigh mail-train, which left Sydney at 8 o'clock, when rounding a curve, ran into a goods train while on its southern journey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday morning last a serious railway collision occurred at Bathurst. The following are the particulars of the disaster:— As the 3.30 a.m. mail train was coming round the curve into…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Edward White (representing the district of Denman), E. C. Clive (representing the district of Cassilis) and J. B. Piddington (representing the district of Merriwa), and accompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 915 →A serious railway collision occurred here this morning. The mail train arriving at 3.30 came into collision with the goods train from Dubbo. The mail train had on board a number of passengers, including the Montague-Turner…
Continued on Trove, page 886 →A TRAM-CONDUCTOR--Jones, by name-- In Sydney's crowded town, My life is hard as any slave, Tho' I works for the Crown ;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT half-past 3 o'clock this morning a serious collision, and one purely attributable to gross neglect on the part of some of the railway officials, took place at the gates just outside the Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Last Friday a deputation, headed by Mr[?] M'Laughlan, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister of[?] Public Works to urge upon him the necessity of the railway line passing from Muswellbrook through…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. M'Laughlan M.L.A., the Hon. A. Bell, M.L.C., and Messrs. N. Y. Asser, M'Intyre, G. B. Finlay, waited upon the Minister of Works ta urge the necessity of making Scone…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THERE are people who cannot for the [?] of them understand a person walking any distance for the mere sake of walking. Amongst such should I place the individual whom I met, and with whom…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →We have received a report form an outside sources that another railway [?] happaned on Saturday at an early hour. Our informant states that the [?] occurred to the mail train form Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opening of this bridge, which has been looked forward to bo anxiously, and which it was feared would be delayed through the late defeat of the Government, is now twi fait accompli, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As may be imagined, a number of claims for compensation have been sent in to the Government through the late railway accident at Bathurst, and we understand that a good many of them have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bride over Iron Cove, which is situated about four miles from Sydney, on the Parramatta River, was opened for public traffic yesterday. The Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, performed the ceremony, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In our yesterday's issue we announced the opening of this bridge, which will be a great boon to the people of the district in which it is placed, being a means of communication across the river that has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From tho inception of the above line the residents of the Glebe appear to have been in a chronic state of dissatisfaction and annoyance at the working of the trams to that locality. The delay at the outset in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hear the groaning of those trams, Horrid trams! What world of misery is in their Jolts and slams; How they bustle, bustle,bustle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Winks" writes as follows := About three weeks ago I had occasion to take the tram from Bridge-' street, and not having a time table with me I naturally referred to the board kept for that purpose at…
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