A Tram Smash
As the tram from Camden to Campbelltown was proceeding on its way on Saturday night, the motor came into contact with a horse which had [?]rayed upon the line. The force of the blow and the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
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Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 28th June, 1883. Uniform Clothing for Great Southern and Western Railways
Owing to the fact that the Tenders recently received were either informal or incomplete, it is found necessary to invite fresh TENDERS for the above Service, and these will be received at this Office until 11 a.m. on TUESDAY next, 3rd July…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Railway Accident Near Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
John Richard Lucae, aged 65, a resident of Richmond, was getting out of a train at the Richmond station yesterday while it was in notion, when he fell underneath the wheels, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Report. Metropolitan District Court. Monday, July 2. (Before Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING and a jury of four.) TRAMMAR, V. Smith and Others
The plaintiff in this case, the Rev. H. T. Trammar, a Church of England clergyman, sued Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons for £200 damages for injuries sustained by him in consequence of negligence on the part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 28th June, 1883. Uniform Clothing for Great Southern and Western Railways
Owing to the fact that the Tenders recently received were either informed or incomplete, it is found necessary to invite fresh TENDERS for the above Service, and these will be received at this Office until 11 a.m. on TUESDAY next, 3rd July…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents at the Railway Extension Works. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In a letter to you on the 9th of last May I called attention to the immerous accidents resulting from the method by which the earth is removed at the railway works at Eveleigh. One of the unfortunate men alluded to in that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Commissioner for Railways and the Goat Nuisance. to the Editor of the Herald
Section 128 of the Government Railways Act of 1858 read—"If any person... shall drive or permit to wander, stray, or be driven upon any such railway, or the approaches thereto, any horse, ass, sheep, swine, or other…
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A collision occurred yesterday morning at Plympton between the workmen's train, which left Adelaide at 6.55 a.m., and the goods train which left five minutes afterwards. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Collision Near Adelaide. Several Passengers Injured. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
A railway collision, attended with serious [?] not fatal consequences, occurred on the Holdfast 1 Bay Railway line to-day, when a goods train ran into a passenger train, owing to a dense fog, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident near Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
The 6.55 morning train to-day, which conveys workmen, left Adelaide at the usual hour, followed at 7 o'clock by a goods train with eight loaded trucks. The passenger train, which…
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A visitor to Sydney writes.—"Yesterday, being anxious to visit some friends in one of the suburbs, I wended my way to King-street to catch the tram which should have left the terminus at 4.20 a little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Public Works, Roads and Bridges, Sydney, June 26,1883. Fresh Tenders
Attention is directed to Gazette Notice inviting Fresh Tenders for undermentioned work, viz.:— Time for Receipt of Tender. Kerbing and Gutterring in front of Deaf and…
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This afternoon John Rowen, a fireman on one of the Woollahra trams, who resides at 335, Cleveland-street, while unstripping the cow-catcher from one of the motors at the yard of the Bridge-street terminus…
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NOTICE is hereby given that on and after Monday next, the 9th instant, the following Alterations will be made in the running of trams on the Woollahra, Waverley, Crown-street, and Leich- i hardt lines:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Government Notices. Government Railways. Engineering Association Conversazione, Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park
NOTICE is hereby given that until SATURDAY next, the 7th instant, Public School Children desirous of attending the above will be allowed to travel by Railway at ¼d per mile, including return—minimum charge 3d…
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Messrs. Pigott, Stephen, and Moses, M's.L.A., introduced a deputation, whose object was to induce the Government to erect a siding on the Illawarra line between Peakehurst and Penzeville, and near the latter…
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Mr. M'Quade, M.L.A., introduced Major Cooper and Mr. John Seath to the same Minister, with a request that a road might be formed (it was already laid oat) between Rouse's Hill and…
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Yesterday John Rowen, a fireman on one of the Woollahra trams, who resides at 335, Cleveland-street, while unstripping the cow-catcher from one of the motors at the yard of the Bridge-street terminus,…
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NOTICE is hereby given that on and after Monday next, the 9th instant, the following Alterations will be made in the running of trams on the Woollabra, Waverley, Crown-street, and Leichhardt lines:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Railways. Southern and Western Railway. Western Extension. Section No. 8. Contract for Works
TENDERS are invited for the Construction of the Eighth Section of the Western Extension, in length 41 miles, in accordance with plans, sections, drawings, general conditions and Specifications, which may be seen at the Office of the Chief…
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