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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The Tramway Department has at last issued the threepenny tickets for the convenience of passengers. School children will be entitled to make two journeys with one ticket over any one section. The conductor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Patterson, the Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, in sending in his resignation, in which he announced as a condition that a board of inquiry should be appointed, states that whilst he does not desire in any way to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The inhabitants of Bungendora and Young are actively engaged in making arrangements celebrating the extension of railway communication to those places. The flood of last month delayed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tender Board of the public Works Department yesterday received and desl[?] with fresh tenders for the works comprised in No.3 section of the Murrumburrah to Busy railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The perseverance which the Electrical Power and St[?]rage Company have shown in developing the capacities of accumulators as motive power seems at last in a fair way of attaining complete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I should like to draw attention through your columns to the present dangerous state of the opening for vessels in the Parramatta River bridge, being placed in about the worst position it was possible to place it, viz…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Fishburn and Co. have already begun some of the preliminary work in connection with the section of the railway line between Cowra and Young. Numbers of men who are in search of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway surveyors on the North Coast railway are camped at the Hastings River, and intend surveying the line from here to Manning River. The whole survey for this line will be completed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another large, and influential public meeting was held in Paddington on Wednesday night, to protest against, the continued imposition of exorbitant charges on tie local tram lines. The Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting in connection with the movement for the duplication of the southern railway line from Granville to Liverpool, was held in the Temperance Hall, Smithfield, on Wednesday night. The room…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting was held in St. Matthias' Hall, Oxford street. Paddington, last evening, with the object of affording the inhabitants of that suburb an opportunity "to protest against the continued imposition of exorbitant charges on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large deputation, representing the agricultural interests in the north-eastern district of the colony, waited on the Premier yesterday, and requested a further reduction of the railway rates for the carriage of grain,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday,-- Mr Mais Engineer in Chief, and Mr Pendleton, traffic manager, are to be retained in their present positions, they having expressed their willingness to work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held in St. Mathias' Hall lest evening to protest against the continued Imposition of exorbitant charges on the local tram [?] There were about 200 persons present, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--I should like to draw attention, through your columns, to the present dangerous state of the opening for vessels in the Parramatta River bridge; being placed in about the worst possible position it could…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man named Skinner was killed to-day at a crossing near Lithgow. He was driving some cows across the line, when a goods train passed by and knocked him down. Skinner was instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All the holders, of property which, is in a line with the North Shore tramway have received instructioiis to send in their valuations. The contract will be begun on Monday next. This looks as if something…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The usual weekly meeting of the Trades and labour Council was held in the rooms on Thursday night. The president, Mr. T. Wright, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The directors of the Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Company have declared a dividend for the past half-year's operations at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. They propose to ask the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--At last night's meeting much unmerited abuse was heaped on the unfortunate head of the Hon. W. J. Trickett for his seeming remissness re tramfares in the interests of his Paddington constitnents…
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