The North Shore Tramway
We understand that plans have been prepared for the construction of the North Shore tramway, which will be submitted for the approval of the cabinet at an early date. As soon as they have…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
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Mudgee Railway Demonstration
MUDGEE, Tuesday.--The railway demonstration committee are making active preparations for the railway opening. The men employed on the railway works are to have a big day's sports on…
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A LABOR and enthusiastic meeting of residents of Castle Hill, Banlkham Hills, Parramatta, and adjacent districts was held at the old schoolhouse, Castle Hill, on Monday evening…
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The sudden and unexplained dismissal of a number of tramway conductors, was again brought before the Legislative Assembly, yesterday, by Mr A. G. Taylor. The hon. gentleman stated that…
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At the Central Police Court on Thursday afternoon an engine-driver named Abbott was brought up on a charge of running his train on the wrong line between Parramatta and Granville on the early…
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INVERELL, Thursday.--An important meeting was held this afternoon to consider the read question. Representatives of the various interests were present, the mayor, Mr J. W. Moore, in the chair…
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ABOUT a few weeks ago five tramway conductors were dismissed from the Government service: and, if the statements made in the Assembly this week are correct, there…
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MUDGEE, Thursday.--The proposed demonstration to celebrate the opening of the railway promises to be a successful affair. The subscriptions are coming in freely. At a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carelessness on the Railway. an Engine-driver Committed for Trial
At the Central Police Court yesterday, Walter Abbott, lately employed as an engine-driver, was summoned, before Mr. Abbott, S.M., for having on the 23rd of last Match, wilfully and negligently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Single Rail Elevated Railway and Train
THE single rail system has recommendations for got ting over rongh oountry. The rail of the line shown in our illustration, which has been patented in America by Mr. E. S. Watson,,may be the ordinary…
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Mr Melville called the attention of the Minister of Mines last night to the undermining of the Great Northern and other roads in the vicinity of Newcastle, which he said had given rise to…
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THE most interesting structure at present in progress, says Engineering, is the Forth Bridge, the largest ever undertaken. It will consist of two spans of 1,700 feet,' two of 675 feet, fourteen of 168 feet, and six of 50 feet…
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Taking advantage of a motion for adjournment, in the Assembly last night, Mr Mitchell called the attention of the Government to the discreditable state of the Newtown-road, which he said was…
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AT the Central Police Court on Thursday afternoon, an engine-driver named Abbott was brought up on a charge of running bia train on the wrong line between Parramatta and Granville on the early…
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SIR,—I observed last week that our member, Mr. Hugh Taylor, who is ever on the look out to confer benefits on his const[?], called the attention of the Minister for Mines to the…
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A trial was made on Thursday morning of the strength, of the new combined car and motor, which has for the last few days been running between, the railway station and Bridge-street. One of the…
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The City Coroner resumed the inquiry at his chambers on the 2nd instant into the circumstances attending the death of the lad Frederick William Fletcher, who died at the Hospital from the effect of injuries received through the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 905 →Little River Railway Collision—Official Inquiry. Melbourne, May 2
The board, consisting of Judge Hickman Moles worth and Messrs. Blyth and Couche, who were appointed by the Governor in Council to inquire judicially into the cause of the Little River collision, have reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 879 →Proposed Railway from Donald to Yelta
WENTWORTH, Friday -- It is likely that an agitation will shortly be raised to impress on the Victorian Government the advisability of constructing a railway from Donald to Yelta, a point…
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FEW questions have been brought to the front of late years of more pressing moment to the county than the project of a light line of railway to connect…
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