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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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We have to-day seen the testing of a pair of light girders, built in the permanent way workshops as types of the girders that are to be used in doubling the line Parramatta to Penrith, to replace the wooden viaducts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A number of residents of Burrowa, including the Hon. J. N. Ryan, M.L.C., were introduced as a deputation to the Minister for Works by Mr. Slattery, M.L.A. Their object was to lay before the Minister certain matters in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. M'Culloch introduced a deputation, composed of residents of Hornsby, to the Minister for Works, with a view of urging him to erect a railway station at Hornsby, on the line from Home[?]ush to Waratah; and also to make that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the 8th instant a deputation consisting of Messrs. H. Clarke, J. See, and J. P. Garvan, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works to urge upon the hon. gentleman the desirableness of a railway being constructed from Eden to…
Continued on Trove, page 330 →The charge against Thomas Goff, a railway conductor, of assaulting Elizabeth Hooper, with intent, was resumed on the 8th inst. at the Central Police Court. Mr. R. Barton, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 330 →The public meeting held last night on railway matters was largely attended by all the influential residents of the neighbourhood, the Mayor taking the chair. The following is the substance of the resolutions passed:—1…
Continued on Trove, page 328 →Recently there was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly a return which affords some interesting information concerning the way in which the live stock traffic on the railways of the colony is conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 306 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 317 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. Slattery, M.P., and consisting of the Hon. J. N. Ryan, M.L.O., and Messrs., F. W. Hume, J.P., A. Middleton, J.P., B. Long, J. J. Keeshan, J. S. Campbell, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Dubbo correspondent writes:--"It has been rumoured that the railway survey of the proposed line to connect the Western and Northern lines at Dubbo and Werris Creek respectively, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last Friday a deputation, consisting of Messrs. H. Clarke, Garran, and See, M's.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works to ask that a line of railway might he constructed from Bega to Eden, but…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →VERY ourious alterations in the railway tariff were referred to in the Assembly by Mr. Sydney Smith on Wednesday evening. He strongly condomned the increase of the minimum load to four tons. Such an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ON Monday night some passengers by a Bourke-stree't 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 15 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Last Friday night the points on the railway line at Essendon were tampered with, evidently with the view of causing an accident. The lever handle was placed over, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We have received from the Commissioner for Railways a copy of the second edition of the Railway Guide. The Guide is a handy volume of reference to the railway lines of the colony, and contains a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--'I beg to call your attention to the slowness of the porters on the Parramatta railway station. I travel very frequently by the 8 p.m. (mail train), and on two or three occasions have had to jump out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir--Whilst waiting at the Bridge-street terminus on Friday week last, about 6 p.m., at which time I think without exaggeration there were fully 500 at the said station, I was much taken aback at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Messrs E'hott Brothers. Gentlemen,--Some few weeks ago, I was so severely affected with indisposition as to render my rising each morning a matter of difficulty and pain, on…
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