Government Notices. Government Railways. Queen's Birthday. Monday, 25th MAY, 1885
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 3
EXCURSION TICKETS will be issued at all stations distant over 15 miles, commencing with the Mail Trains leaving Albury and Byrock and Sydney in THURSDAY, the 21st instant, and terminating on MONDAY, 26th instant, available for return…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 5
The Quetta railway (the Times correspondent says) cannot be completed for two years to come. Orders have, however, been issued to construct a temporary railway through the Bolan. Starting from Pir Choki, it will follow…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The Railway Commissioners declined to-day to accent any of the nine tenders for the construction of the railway from Dimboola to the South Australian border as they…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 4
The Engineering Chief for Railways has just received advices from home to the effect that the three first spans of the bridge a: Byde in connection with the Homebush to Waratah line were…
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Evening News · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 4
LONDON, May 20.—The Canadian Pacific Railway, crossing the Dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has been completed…
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Evening News · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 4
Sir,—The above question having bean continually brought before the public through your columns, I would crave a space therein to suggest a system which I think would act well if carried out—to the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 4
The site selected by the Railway Department for the station at Gundagai not meeting with the approbation, of the residents because of its inconvenient position, pressure was successfully brought…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 5
ORANGE, Wednesday.--A daring robbery took place last night in the mail train from Sydney, Mr C. W. Bromilow, of Orange, returning from Sydney, occupied a bunk in a sleeping car and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1885 · page 7
The Canadian Pacific Railway, crossing the Dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has been completed…
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Evening News · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 6
According to advices received by the Engineer-in-Chief, the iron structure for three spans of the bridge over the Parramatta River on the Homebush to Waratah line were shipped from England in the latter part…
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Evening News · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 7
The usual Saturday evening popular lecture, in the School, of Arts, Pitt-street, will be delivered by Mr. W. M. Foote. An account of the historic fortress of Malta, England's strongest outpost on the road to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
On the above date the fare by special tram to the Randwick Racecourse, for the whole or any portion of the distance, will be One Shilling. Attention is specially drawn to the fact that on the above date…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
The Public are hereby informed that on the above date the following Trams Will NOT RUN:— CROWN-STREET LINE. Leaving Bridge-street at 11.23 a.m., 12.22 p.m., 1.22 p.m., 2.22…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
A SPECIAL TRAM, suitable for private parties and ladies, will leave Bridg-street for the Racecourse at 11.45 a.m., arrivingg in time for the first racn, and awsiting the finish of the last. On the second vebicle provision will be made for smoking, and…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
Sir,--Allow me, through the medium of your paper, to draw attention to the neglected and dangerous condition of this road. It is full of pits from one end to the other, and instead of the road being proparly…
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Evening News · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 6
A daring robbery took place on Tuesday night in the mail train from Sydney. Mr. C. W. Bromilow, of Orange, who was returning from Sydney, occupied a bunk in a sleeping car, and…
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Evening News · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 6
Much surprise and indignation are expressed by the residents of the district that a copy of Mr. Hobson's report of the flying survey of the railway line from Adelong to Tumberumba…
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Evening News · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 6
The railway authorities having chosen a site for the station in Gundagai, which did not meet with the approbation of the residents because of its inconvenient position. pressure was successfully brought to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
On the above date SPECIAL THROUGH TRAINS will leavs Sydney for Granville at 11.65 a.m., 12.25, and 12.45 p.m., returning immedistely after the last race. Fares to Granville and Back:…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1885 · page 3
Trams Will berun to Botany at intervals of 20 minutes between the hours of 9.30 a.m. until 4 p.m., when the ordinary time table will be adbered to. All trams will start from Bent-street, between the hours of 8…
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