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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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On Saturday Mr. Melville visited his electorate, and was accompanied by Mr. Faraell, the Minister of Lands, who availed himself of the opportunity to revisit the commonage—an area of reserved land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sufficient shares have been applied for in this company to float it, and a meeting was announced to be held last Monday evening, to take steps to incorporate the company…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The public are reminded that parcels can be booked at the Central Office, George-street, Sydney, to any station on the Great Northern Line, daily, Sundays excepted, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but on Saturdays parcels will not be received after 3 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →" Anglo-Australian " writes in the " European Mail" of June 19: -- "I am informed that quite a dozen tenders have been sent in by leading engineering firms here for building the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir, -- Some few days since a letter appeared if your issue from Mr Marklove, complaining of the irregularity of opening and closing the bridge, and as I can fully endorse the terms used, and the Press…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Readford and Daniels, of Bourke, have visited Sydney, as deligates of the citizens of that town, to ask the Minister of Works to postpone the official opening of the railway from the 17th to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The extension of the Southern Coast railway to Beenleigb, 23 miles from Brisbane, was formally opened on Saturday by the Minister of Works, and a banquet was afterward held in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held on Saturday night at Brewarrina to consider the advisableness of steps being taken in connection with the proposed branch line from Byrock to Brewarrina. The meeting was large and representative,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking discovery was made on June 17 at the Old Trafford tunnel, on the Manchester and South Junction railway, near Manchester. On the arrival of an express train from Liverpool at the Oxford-road station the driver…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr Ellis, member for Newcastle, has received official information to the effect that in the next session of Parliament the Government will bring down a proposal for the construction of a line of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir, -- In to-day's issue of your journal, Mr Clarke, M.P., has favoured your renders with an article on "The City and the Country Differential Rates," and has given 18 examples in support of his theory. Will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two gentlemen named John Gates and Edward Martin were riding in a b[?]gy along St. James'. road, toward Elizabeth street, yesterday. They passed behind a tram proceeding in a southerly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We learn from the Commissioner for Railways that the report for 1884 of the New South Wales Railway Department will be issued some time next week, All the returns in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A petition, signed by 100 residents, was presented to the Minister of Works on Tuesday by Messrs. Stephen and Hammond, Ms.L.A., respecting the dangerous state of Unwin's Bridge, Cook's River…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister of Works, Tuesday, informed Messrs. Stephen and Hammond, Ms.L.A., that the plans for the city railway extension would be submitted to Parliament daring the ensuing session…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Tuesday Messrs. Stephen and Hammond, two of the members for Canterbury, had an interview with the Minister of Works on the subject of the proposed railway between St. Peters and Liverpool, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Cramsie, Clarke, Wilkinson, and O[?]iffe, Ms.L.A., and Daniell and Readford (aldermen of Bourke), with Mr. Sawers, of Brewarri[?] waited upon the Minister of Railways to-day in reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Special Passenger Train will leave Sydney for Liverpool at 11.20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 4.15 p.m. Fares by the special train, first-class, 4s. Ditto ditto, second-class, 2s…
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