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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Public holiday though it was, the Railway Department's offices were open from the first thing yesterday morning till late in the afternoon, and with one or two intervals of comparative quietude,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOTAMUNDRA, Monday. --The late tragic catastrophe, which is perhaps unparalleled in the history of the colony, has thrown Cootamundra into a condition of the wildest excitement and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir, -- Permit me a few lines in your columns. The deficit in the tram department may be caused by the large expenditure incurred for spark-occuers and inventions for people not being run over and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram was received late last night at Redfern Railway Station, from Inspector Harminge, of Dubbo, stating that about 30 chains of line were washed away during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We have been requested to draw attention to an announcement which appears in our advertising columns with reference to the alteration in the running of express mail trains on the Southern line owing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government have decided not to run any express trains for the present between Sydney and Albury, but the mail train will be despatched from Redfern as usual to the point of obstruction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—On the 16th instant I wrote to the hon. the Secretary of Public Works upon matters relating to our tramways, feeling strongly that the importance of the subject fully justified my action, to which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a late issue of the EVENING NEWS reference was made to the forced abandonment of the pipe-laying and the construction of a reservoir at Wallsend, owing to "pitfalls," caused by the removal of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If one of the fettlers had had the courage to force his way across the stream, or sufficient perseverance to work his way round, he would have discovered the third cap, warned the approaching train, and thus…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Denis O'Brien was charged in the Water Police Court on Tuesday, with having assaulted Conductor Scott on the Coogee tram on Monday. The prosecutor [?] that the accused was drunk, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further particulars respecting the railway disaster near Cootamundra have been forwarded to us by telegraph f[?]om Cootamundra and Albury. The Hon. F. A. Wright, Minister for Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday. -- In one respect to-day was a great contrast to yesterday. Instead of a drizzling rain and water filling the streets in every direction there was bright sunshine. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir, -- I suppose that you and those of the publics, who are not sufferers, are almost weary of the tram question; still there are one or two aspects of it that have not been alluded to, and I ask your courtesy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A terrible railway accident occurred on the Great Southern Railway Line, between Cootamundra and Bethungra on Sunday night. In Consequence of the heavy rain which bad fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail train arrived nearly an hour late this morning. The passengers for Melbourne, Wagga, and other places beyond, had to walk to meet the train on the other side of the scene of the disaster the stoker, who was returning to Harden from Melbourne, whither he had been on leave of absence. He left in the Victorian capital a wife and four children, who intended to travel by the same train, but at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The opinion of a lawyer who is in good practice here is that the Victorian Government is liable to the Victorian passengers who took through tickets for Sydney in the wrecked train. If it can be proved…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We are receiving numerous complaints respecting the mismanagement of the tramways. Since the fares have been increased the remonstrances from persons habitually travelling ever the different sections have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following evidence was given at the inquest yesterday:— Mr. Camphorne deposed I sent word to the station-master to wire to Bethungra to stop the mail He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We are indebted to the Hon. Minister for Works for a copy of a telegram received by him from Mr. Cowdery, Engineer for Existing Lines, who is now at the scene of the railway wreck, superintending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Now that railways are being extended in all directions, surely it is high time to consider wheather the present system of enclosing the whole of the railway reserves is not a mistake— usefull and dangerous. I think it can be clearly…
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