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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir,—I cannot but wonder how it is that, when a railway line is in course of formation, a qualified road inspector (for I believe there are such officials, and I will go as far as to say I have even seen one out here, though what he did, or whether he, ever…
Continued on Trove, page 419 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Wilson and Longhnan, Ms..L.A., and Messrs. S.M'Caughey (Coonong), S. W.Lamb, and Dr. Bellamy (Urana), waited on the Minister for Works on the 22nd instant, to ask for the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 426 →Messrs. Coonan and Vaughn, Ms.L.A., C. J. Ingrey, Mayor of Grenfell, G. H. Green, B. Halls, J.P., J. Dent, George Rich, and William Howarth waited upon the Minister for Works, to ask that a line of railway should be…
Continued on Trove, page 426 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Government intend to appoint a Royal Commission to prosecute the inquiry into the railway management, hitherto carried on by the Parliamentary committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs Spring, M.P., M'Kinnon, M.P., and Watson, Sharp, Turland, M'Kenzie Hosie, Cram and Erlich, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday and presented a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--As there has appeared in the daily papers on several occasions, comments on the conduct of, tramway guards, allow me through the medium of your valuable paper to state a circumstance…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest yesterday at his court on the body of Joseph Adams, aged 45. who received injuries While working on the railway line near Home-bush station,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN accident occurred on the Leichhardt tram line, on Monday, which was, unfortunately, attended with fatal results. The accident took place about halfpast 2 in the afternoon. The tram, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →MR. Speight, the chairman of the Railway Commissioners, and his colleagues, while on their first official trip over the lines of Victoria, were the subject of a considerable amount of internst and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ON Feb. 22 a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Wilson, M.L.A., S. M. Caughey, G. W. Lamb, and Dr. Bellamy, was introduced to the Minister for Works by Mr. Loughnan, M.L.A. The object of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →On February 22 Mr. Vaughn, M.L.A., introduced a deputation consisting of Messrs. Coonan, M.L.A., J. B. Donkin, G. H. Groon, c. J. Ingrey (Mayor of Grenfoll), R. Halls, John Dent, G. Rich…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →ON Monday last some of the gangs who were on strike on Messrs. Cobb and Co.'s Tenterfield line resumed work. The leaders of the strike interfered; and the gangs again left. The police…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. SYDNEY SMITH moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the unequal rates charged for freight by railway of goods under 4 tons weight. He adverted to his former speech on this…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The contract for the erection of the lattice-girder bridge over the Murray at Albury is rapidly approaching completion, the work during the past three weeks having made particularly good progress. All the longitudinal and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A gentleman who with hie wife and family travelled from Moss Vale to Sydney on Saturday last, complains that he was unable to obtain seats in a first-class carriage, there being only one small…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway accident occurred on Friday night near Gladstone. A special train with tracks of wheat drawn by a Yankee engine was coming down Peasant Bridge when the axle of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—The prevention of the expenditure of a million and a quarter of money upon what I believe will prove an unproductive work is my reason for asking for space to reply very briefly to Mr. Garland's letter in your usue of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Indian railway system has been extended from the frontier to Quettah, 30 miles beyond the Bolan Pass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A railway accident occurred on Friday night near Gladstone, A special train with trucks of wheat drawn by a Yankee engine was coming down Peasant Bridge when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir.--I quite agree with your correspondent, "The Other Side." I have travelled almost daily trams and have been often surprised at the way in which the conductors controlled their tempers under…
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