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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1884

2,361 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 119

Penfold and Company v. the Commissioner for Railways

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1884 · page 6

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr Marsh, S.M., a case in which Messrs Penfold and Company, of South Australia, complained that the Commissioner for Railways had overcharged them…

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Widening of Roads

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1884 · page 2

This morning a deputation was introduced to the Minister of Mines, by Mr. Garrard, M.L.A., consisting of Mr. Hutchinson. M.L.A., and the mayor and a number of aldermen of the borough…

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Accident to the Melbourne Express Train. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1884 · page 8

An accident happened to the express train from Melbourne this morning. It appears that when approaching Harden station the passengers were rudely awakened by a series of heavy shocks, followed shortly by the…

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Suburban Railway Fares

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1884 · page 2

A deputation from Rookwood, introduced by Mr. A. H. M'Culloch, M.P., waited on the Minister of Works this morning to ask him to reconsider his decision with reference to the increase in the…

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Tramway Deviation

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1884 · page 2

This morning a deputation from the eastern suburbs, consisting of Sir Alfred Stephen, Colonel Fitzmond, Captain Charles, and Messrs. J. C. Neild, Walter Bradley, W. H. Simpson (mayor of…

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A Railway Carriage on Fire. [By Telegraph]. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1884 · page 8

One of the carriages in the mixed train which arrived at Wagga shortly after 8 o'clock last night became ignited between Junee and Wagga. The guard climbed over the carriages to the engine-driver, who stopped the train, and…

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A Bad Road

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 21

On Friday Messrs. Mitchell and Gibbes, Ms.L.A., introduced to the Minister of Works a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Darlington (Mr. Hawkins), and Aldermen Popper, Elwey, and Warren…

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Widening the Balmain-road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 11

A deputation from the municipality of Leichhardt, introduced by Mr. Garrard and Mr. Hutchinson, members for Balmain, waited upon the Hon. J. P. Abbott, Minister for Mines, yesterday, to ask the Government to take steps…

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Accident to the Melbourne Express Train. Goulburn

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 136

An accident happened to the express train from Melbourne this morning. It appears that when approaching Harden station the passengers were rudely awakened by a series of heavy shocks, followed shortly by the…

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Trams and Suburban Railways. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 8

Sir,—Now that the Minister for Works has decided that the recently increased suburban railway passenger rates shall remain in force, it would perhaps be to the interests of the public, and add much to the popularity of the…

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A Railway Carriage on Fire. Wagga Wagga

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 136

One of the carriages in the mixed train, which arrived at Wegga shortly after 8 o'clock last night became ignited between Junee and Wagga. The guard climbed over the carriages to the engine-driver, who stopped the train, and…

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Railway Freight on Colonial Wine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 127

At the Water Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Marsh, S.M., Thomas Francis Hyland, one of the partners in the firm of Penfold and Co., of Adelaide, in the colony of South Australia, sued the Commissioner for Railways for…

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Deputations. Second Class Railway Fares to Granville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 11

A deputation, consisting of a number of gentlemen appointed at a public meeting at Granville to wait upon the Minister for Works to urge him to reconsider teh decision he had arrived at in reference to the increase in the suburban…

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The Proposed New Route and Terminus for Eastern Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 11

A very large and influential deputation, accompanied by Sir Alfred Stephen, M.L.C., called at the office of the Minister for Works yesterday to represent to that gentleman the desirableness of reconsidering the proposal to…

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Amongst the Gums and Tirpenpines on the Northbern Railway Route

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 8

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Scientific and Useful. Colonial Railways—a New Chum's Impressions of Them

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 23

HAVING had some 15 years of various grados of service on English railways, I will give you my opinion of your colonial lines so far as I have seen. I have been over your Northorn, Southern, and Western linos…

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On the Creat Northern Railway kine—Cosford to Newcastle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 24

Gosford and the Broadwater Looking Gouth. 2. Bovrabong Bay 3, C. Catholic Chapel, Gosford. 4. Royal Hotel, 5. Narrarra Creek, 6. Public School, Gosford…

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Views on the Great Northern Railway Line. Gosford to Newcastle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 26

OUR illnstrations show. (1.) Gosford and the Broadwater, looking south. Since the arrival of Mr. Blunt, the contractor for that portion of the line extending from the' Hawkesbury River to…

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In South Australia. on the Great Northern Railway Line—from Port Augusta to Hergott Springs

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 26

THE train for the north only leaves Port Augusta three times a week, stabing at 7 o'clock in the morning. On a certain day in November, I and an old Wilcannia friend, whom I had…

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Railway Smash at Rookwood. [By Electric Telegraph.] Parramatta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 11

A SERIOUS railway accident happened this morning at Rookwood, A goods train ran into a hearse-carriage and ont it into pieces. There were two bodies in the carriage awaiting…

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