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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
2,361 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 119
The new branch railway line from Cootamundra to Gundagai, for which Messrs. M'Sharry, Macrossan, and Co. are the contractors, was commenced just three months ago, and since then, notwithstanding the delays inseparable from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--On behalf of myself and brother porters allow me to enter an earnest protest against the statement of Mr. F. A. Wright, given in answer to the question of Mr. Hugh Taylor, as to why the eight-hour system…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge-street, which is usually a quiet part of our city, was yesterday afternoon the scene of excitement and alarm. About 20 minutes past 3 o'clock, a rumbling noise, followed by a thud and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A considerable amount of excitement was occasioned in and about Bridge-street shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon through the partial collapse of a building in that street, between George and Pitt streets. The scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—In Thursday's issue of the Sydney Morning Herald I noticed a letter from the father of the boy Morrison, killed on the 2nd instant at Parramatta railway station, stating that some one pushed the boy off the car platform, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night some passengers by a Bourke-street omnibus had a marvellously narrow escape with their lives owing to an accident, the cause of which seems to require some explanation. The facts are as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Bourke-Btrect omnibus, which was coming into the city yesterday evening, shortly after 8 o'clock, was overtaken in Oxford-street by a Randwick tram and knocked over. When the bus was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amongst the cases disposed of yesterday at the Central Police Court was an affiliation case, in which George Wilbon, railway guard, bore the chief part. The case had not proceeded far before he admitted in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--The very brief report furnished by your correspondent of the meeting held in Wollongong on Wednesday night last, the object of which was to prevail on the Government to adopt the original…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It was stated in the Assembly last night by Mr. Wright, in answer to Mr. Garrard, that the total weight of wrought iron in the superstructure of Cook's River bridge was estimated at 142 tons; the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Jones, Loughnan, Spring, Lyne, and Merriman, M.'sL.A., and Mr. Rogers, of Wagga Wagga, waited upon the Minister of Works with reference to the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Sydney Smith directed attention to the recent alterations in the railway rates, under which the small settlers and traders were competed to pay for four tons of a class traffic, even if only one ton was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A collision occurred on January 2 on the Grand Trunk Railway, a short distance cast of Toronto, between a train which daily leaves the city, with a car attached to it for workmen belonging lo the b[?]t works, and a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In view of the intention of the Minister to submit the question of the construction of the above line to the House, a number of gentlemen from the district interested have come to Sydney armed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many have been the tirades directed against the conduct of the sterner sex of Sydney (writes a cynical correspondent) in the matter of seats in tram-cars and trains, but--and there is a "but" in this case--have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Sir George Whitmore, M.P., of New Zealand, his reported to the police that whilst on a journey from Sydney to Melbourne by the express train, which left Sydney on the 7th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The interior of the old parish Church of St. Peter's, Cook's River-road, has lately been completely renovated, and this to such an extent that many, who now live at a distance, but who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Supreme Court on Wednesday application was made on behalf of the defendant for a rule [?] for a new trial in the action Falconer verses the Commissioner of Hallways, board some time ago, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—In your report this morning of the proceedings at opening of the new wharf at Neutral Bay, an inaccuracy occurs, caused, no doubt, by some interjecting remarks about the bridge to North-Shore made by some gentleman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. A. G. Jones, M. L. A., Mr. Loughnan, M. L. A., Mr. Spring, M. L. A., Mr. Lyne, M.L A., Mr. Merriman, M.L.A., and Mr. Rogers, a resident of Wagga Wagga, waited upon the Minister for Works…
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