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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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In the Central Police Court on Thursday, Inspector Roberts, of the tram service, prosecuted Mrs. Ellen Ryan for having quitted a train while it was in motion. Mr. T. K. Abbott, S.M., occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BATHURST, Thursday.--The Royal Commission on the stability of Government bridges tested the iron bridge over the Macquarie yesterday. Three large American engines passed over slowly and at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON and after the 15th, instant there is to be a considerable increase in the tramway fares, in drder, if possible, to mate the lines pay. Last year they were run at a loss of £9000, or about 2…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—There are a certain set of p[?]ple smo[?] in railway carriages not specially se[?] [?] the intense annoyance and [?]er d[?] of many of the remaining occupants. Having tra[?] m[?] in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—The Railway Department has been for some time under the lash of those who are popularly supposed to know something of the subject they have taken up, and in [?]ch of this lashing there is a huge quantity of hair-splitting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—The subject of our suburban tramways—now engaging special public attention—has long had my serious consideration. I have been able to collect some information, statistical and authentic; this may prove to be—and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--I read with pleasure your leader in to-day's issue on the subject of increased tramway fares, particularly the portion relating to the Paddington fares. Up to the present the residents of Paddington have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--A goods and cattle train on the southern-Western railway, while crossing the main range yesterday afternoon, met with an accident. A sheep track in the middle of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Last night the up train proceeding to Riverton collided with a buggy driven by Noah Grey, a farmer of that place. The buggy was smashed and the horse killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--The select committee of the Legislative Council, to whom were encrusted the plans recommended the construction of a railway from the Sandgate line to Caboolture 24…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Central Police Court yesterday, a married lady named Ryan was summoned before Mr T. K. Abbott, S.M., for an alleged infringement of one of the tramway bylaws by leaving a car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR—With reference to your letter of the 28th [?] regarding Road from [?] Western Road at Eastern Creek to Bayley Park, I have the honor to inform you that the local officer reports that the road in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A painful accident occurred yesterday on the Glebe Point tramway line to a fireman named Reynolds. It appears that he left his own motor for the purpose of speaking to a driver on another motor,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Save your article at the commencement of the month I see no indication of discontent at the raising of the tram fares. Is it that the public are hopeless that any remonstrance will avail? It surely must be so, for I do…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—Every time I travel down the Western line, not very often, I um forcibly struck with the folly, or worse, of the mail train stopping at Lithgow and Jiskbank, two little stations within a mile of each other. Some time ago…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A cab was knocked down at the intersection of Darby-street by a [?] engine, which smashed the cab, knocked the driver off his seat, broke his collar-bone, and injured the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious accident occurred at Glebe Point yesterday, in which Arthur Reynold foreman on one of the tram motors, left his own engine, which was waiting on the loop line for another to pass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,— I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of some letter of and instant on the subject of the erection of a waiting shed at the Harris Park Platform, and to inform you that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following increased tram, fares are to come into force on and after Thursday next, the 15th;— Bridge-street to—Moore Park, Waverley (Bondi Junction), Woollahra, Cleveland-street…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At about 3 p.m. yesterday a are occurred on the premises of Mr. James Louden, No. 3, Knox-street, Darlington. The fire was discovered in a cupboard off the verandah, among a quantity of soiled linen. The…
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