Light Railways
THE present Government have pleaded themselves to a public [?] police of which the chief feature is to be the conservation of light railways," or tramways, to many places to which…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
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Railway Trucks
WE have published several letters referring to the "railway track" question in recent issues, and commenting on the deficiency of trucks at the Cross Roads. A correspondent…
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Mr. W. R. Pigott and Mr. H. Moses, Ms. L. A., introduced a deputation,who came to ask the Minister for Works for extension of the tramway line from Elswick, at Leich[?]aidt, to Five Dock, a distance of a mile and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Government Railways. International Cricket Match. at Sydney, 17th, 19th, and 20th, February, 1883
TICKETS at XCURSION RATIS will be issued to Sydney at all stations within 150 miles by the Up Mail Trians on FRIDAY, the 16th instant: and at all stations within 50 miles on SATURDAY, MONDAY, and TUESDAY, the 17th, 19th, and 20th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Railway. Extension—goulburn to Cooma. Part I.
The Commissioner for Railways, appointed by Act of Council 22 Victoria No. 19, hereby gives notice that his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, deems it expedient to make and complete a railway between Goulburn and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway to Coonamble
Mr. Cass, M.L.A., and Mr. Polin, Mayer of Coonamble, came to ask the Minister for Works that a trial survey should be made at once of the railway extension projected from Dubbo to Coouamble…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Deputations. the Illawarra Railway
On the 9th instant, Messrs. Tarrant and Humphery, Ms.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Hon. Minister for Works from Wollongong, in reference to the Illawarra railway. The Premier was also present. The following…
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On Saturday afternoon, at about half-past 4, a serious tramway accident occurred at the junction of Elizabeth and Liveipool streets. Motor No. 17, with three tramcars, but fortunately very few passengers, loft the Bridge-street…
Continued on Trove, page 329 →The Recent Tramway Accident. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Your recent remarks on the tram accident of Saturday last will, I doubt not, have been endorsed by many who are compelled to daily travel by tram. For my own part, I have been expecting some such…
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A deputation, consisting of Mr Cass, M.L.A., and Mr. Polin. mayor of Coonamble, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday morning, to ask for a survey to be made of a railway route from…
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A deputation representing the residents of Five Dock was introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday morning by Messrs Pigott and Moses, Ms.L.A,, for the purpose of urging the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Working of the Tramways. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Mr Copeland said very hard things of the electors of Newtown who voted against him when he was returned for the electorate, and also of those who rejected him when he sought re-election as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident at the Redfern Railway Station
An accident of a somewhat serious nature took place near the Redfern Railway Station yesterday. A man named Joseph Webster Ross, van-driver for Mr Whitehead, of Barrack-street, was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experiences at the Armidale Railway Opening
HAVING a lady visitor from Melbourne, and cudgelling our brains how to amuse her in this dull old city, the bright idea suddenly struck us that the railway demonstration at Armidale would be something quite…
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A deputation, consisting of Mr. Humphroy, M.P., Captain Owen, Mr. Biggar, and Mr. Hale, last Friday waited on the Minister of Public Works for the purpose of laying before the Government the…
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AT about 4.30 p.m. on Saturday a serious accident happenod on the tramway line at the junction of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets. It seems that motor No. 17 with three tramcars started late from the…
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The next deputation was introduced by Mr. Trickett, M.P. for Paddington, with whom was Mr. Butcher, M.P. for the same place, Mr. O'Connor, M.P., Mr. M'Pherson, Mayor of…
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On Friday afternoon a deputation, consisting of Messrs. G. E. Cass and Sydney Smith, M's.L.A., and P. M'Alister, Kendall, and Collie, of Warren, waited upon the Minister for Public Works to urge…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Australian Town & Country Journal Sydney, Saturday, Feb. 17, 1883. Light Railways
THE present Government have pledged themselves to a public works policy, of which the chief feature is to be the construction of "light railways," or tramways, to many places to which…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Department of Public Works, Roads Branch, Sydney, February 6,1883. TENDERS
Attention to directed to Gazette notice inviting tenders for undermentioned work, vi.z:— Time for Receipt of…
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