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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
2,051 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 103
Sir, -- Encouraged by the kindly disposition of the Minister for Works, for the last few weeks, towards the previously oppressed and neglected Leichhardt, I have ventured to pen a few lines to your paper for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Lyne, senior member for the Hume, was interviewed on Monday by a deputation from the Upper Murray Railway League, who desired, his help to obtain a trial survey of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the report of the Commissioner of Railways (Q.), for last year, it appears that the total amount of capital appropriated by Parliament for the construction of railways up to December 31 (including…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The leading railway officials, including the engineer-in-chief and the locomotive engineer, waited upon the Commissioner for Public Works on Saturday to request information as to how…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENDERS will be at this Office up to 11 a.m. on the dates mentioned hereunder, for the Public Works, &c., specified in the following schedule:— Nature of Works or Supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I noticed in your issue of Saturday last a letter re the above proposed railway, by "Railway Economist," but I rather think that he has chosen a misappropriate name. Does "Railway Economist" know what he is writing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GOULBURN, Monday. -- A man named William Martin, a fettler, was knocked down by a railway truck, which passed over one of his feet, almost fevering two of his toes. He was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Monday. -- Mr Lyne, senior member for The Hume, was interviewed to-day by a deputation from the Upper Murray Railway League, who desired his help to obtain a trial survey of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Travellers upon the Western line are making continual complaints of the delay in the ordinary day passenger train. It scarcely runs one night in the week to time, being delayed sometimes fully half an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This morning at an early hour two light tram motors, which were leaving the shed at the Bandwick depot, collided and each came to grief in a greater or less degree. The lines were blocked for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Members of the New South Wales Contingent wishing to attend the above will be passed free by rail on production of the discharge issued in connection with the dibandment of the Corps, or other sufficient proof of their identity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Special Passenger Train will leave Sydney for Liverpool at 11.20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 4.45 p.m. Fares by the special train, first-class, 4s. Ditto ditto, second-class, 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday evening the locomotive attached to an incoming suburban train ran off the line within a short distance of the station at Redfern. Owing to the occurence happening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Emanuel Weeden Newman left here to accompany a deputation to wait on the Minister of Works to-morrow in reference to the granting of a trial survey for a railway from A delong to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Member of the New South Wales Contingent wishing to attend the above will be passed free by rail on production of the discharge issued in connection with the disbandment of the Corps, or other sufficient proof of their identity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Special Passenger Train will lleave sydney for Loverpool at 11. 20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 4.45 p.m. Fares by the special train, first-class, 4s. Ditto ditto, second-class, 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Respecting the resolution passed by ratepayers of Padding on last week, to the effect that the Minister for Works be requested to extend the two penny section to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charles Clark, with the appearance of a tramp, was charged in the police court with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. "What's your business asked the "beak." "Merchant," boldly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A large deputation waited on the Secretary of Works to-day, in order to urge him to have a survey made for & railway from Adelong to Tumbenunba, which, it Was argued, could be easily constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Members of the New South Wales Contingent wishing to attend the above will be passed free by rail on production of the discharge issued in connection with the disbandment of the Corps, or other sufficient proof of their identity…
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