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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A shocking railway accident occurred on the Ill [?] warra line on Saturday afternoon. A man named Edward Whelow, guard of the 1.57 train from Sydney, to Hurstville, was observed to fall off the foot board…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An accident occurred at Lawson station on Saturday. Two engines collided while shunting, and three persons were injured. A dense fog prevailed. While an engine was being put on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A telegram sent from Cleveland, Ohio, said: The mangled form of Benjamin Shorten, of Berea, a young man 21 years old, has been found on the Lake Shore track. His head had been entirely out from the body and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A large and representative meeting of the residents of Granville, washed in the School of Arts on Thursday last, to take steps induce the Railway Department to duplicate the [?] from Granville to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With regard to the break in the permanent way near Cootamundra, an important announcement affecting the traffic over the line has just been made by the Railway Department. Since the accident occurred the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOTAMUNDRA. Sunday Evening.--The deviation was completed this afternoon and an engine, coupled to four or five trucks, ran across it. Coming Back however, the break van ran off the rails once, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The deputation which waited on the Minister for Works on Friday last to protest against the inert nee in the tram fares to and from Randwick sud Coogee, based their protest on certain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is always easy to prophesy after the event, and now that the terrible catastrophe which occurred this week at the upper embankment at Cootamundra is a thing of the past, it is not very difficult to surmise…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A railway guard, named John Chamberlain, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court on Monday, with having committed a rape on a young girl, named Ann Alderson, from the Industrial School. A com…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—When I wrote to you on the 16th instant, there was then running only one of the six newly imported compound and combined engines and cars— the other five being under repairs—and to-day this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Engineer for Existing Lines Anticipated that it would not be before Wednesday evening that the traffic would be fully resumed on the Southern line. But the work in connection with the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Creswick councillors have expressed great indignation at Mr. Grillies (Minister of Railways), who, with Mr. J. A. Froude's party, visited the mines last week, because he refused, on principle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, January 29.—The Earl of Derby has given his approval to Mr. Waddington's proposal to construct a railway on the land grant system from Guildford to Champion Bay, in Western…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Information has been received by the Public Works Department that the flood waters' arising from the recent rains have reached the Murrumbidgee, and about eight chains of the railway line between Nar…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister of Works has decided to issue free railway passed to all new arrivals from the Continent of Europe as well as from Great Britain. He is of opinion that this step will be in the interest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A final meeting of the Mudgee railway demonstration committee was held, in the Town Hall, on Saturday night. The treasurer (Mr. Todhunter) submitted the balance-sheet, which allowed a sur…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Could the Minister for Works be prevailed on to augment the proceeds of the above line by renewing the penny section from the Waverley-road to the Ocean-street terminus? It would benefit the Queen-street shopkeepers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the survivors of the Cootamundra smash, Mr. R. Jordan, returned here on Friday, and he explains how it was that his name did not appear. He was in the first carriage in company with a Mr. Priddle, and when he came…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COOTAMUNDRA, Monday.--Through communication was restored by a temporary deviation on Sunday night. At usual mail-time the first train passed it successfully. The statement made by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I should wish through the medium of your valuable journal to enquire why it is that the tra[?] on the [?]yrmont Bridge is subjected to so much delay and inconvenience by opening the bridge to allow vessels to pass…
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