Melbourne Tramway Loan
LONDON, Thursday.--The tenders for the Melbourne Tramway Trust Loan of £500,000, at 4½ per cent., were opened to- day. The loan was subscribed for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 134
Trial Survey Illawarra Line to Southern Railway
Mr. A. Armstrong, introduced by Mr. Garrett, M.P., yesterday waited upon the Minister for Works and presented a petition from a public meeting of residents and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our Tramways. Worked at a Loss. Some Proposed Improvements
The urgency for the introduction of some great improvements in our tram system arises from the important result that the tramways as a whole do not pay. This may be--as it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Porters' Hours. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Sometime ago in your news of the day, I perceived a few lines written by one who knows in reference to a porter's grievance in the railway goods shed, Redfern, about the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The North Shore Railway. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--That the above undertaking should terminate in a fiasco, however it may disappoint the land speculator, will cause little surprise to the general public. Had the Great Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway Season Tickets. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--From the first time they were "deputationised," the different Ministers for Works have been averse to the granting of season tickets on the tramways, and Mr. Garrard seems…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Public Safety v. Railway Culverts. To the Editor
Of late my attention has been directed to the way in which, the concrete oulverts are being put in. On the lines that I have visited, I have noticed the difference between theo way the work was done when…
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Mr. Ryrio, M.L.A., introduced a large deputation to the Minister of Works. 29th, to request that he would take steps to have the plans and specifications for the railway from Tarago to Braidwood completed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Silverton Railway. ADELAIDE
An influential deputation waited upon the Commissioner of Works on Tuesday, and asked him to: strengthen the Silverton railway, as well as to increase the rate of speed. It was estimated that…
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Messrs. Lyne and Hayes, Ms.L.A., waited on the Minister of Works, Thursday, in reference to the culoairn to Corowa railway, to try to induce him to adopt an intermediate lins, order a for the flying survey of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Railway Accident. the Sydney Express Delayed
A peculiar mishap occurred shortly after midnight on Friday to the Sydney express train at Culcairn. A gale was blowing, and four empty trucks, which were standing in a siding at that place, although…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illawarra Railway Resumptions. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Your list of claimants for compensation published in today's issue certainly discloses a striking and, I might add, an unforgiving difference between the amounts claimed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damage to a Bridge. ADELAIDE
An accident happened to the Robinson swing bridge, Port Adelaide, to-day. On being dosed, after allowing the Investigator to pass through, some of the machinery of the bridge broke, and it was found…
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A number of railway carriages broke loose on the Rimutuka incline, near Wellington, to-day, and began running backwards into the tunnels. The…
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At about 11 o'clock on Monday a laborer named James Knott, while working on the railway a short distance beyond Hornsby, fell from a plank a distance of 9ft, and sustained a serious fracture of the leg…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illawarra Railway Resumptions
We are given to understand that amongst the long list of Illawarra railway resumptions laid on the table of the Assembly on Friday and published by us on Saturday, a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pearce's Corner Railway. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Having watched your columns for a week hoping that someone would discuss the interesting question of a North Shore railway, and having noticed not a single comment…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.--Some railway carriages on the Wellington line broke loose at Rimutaka and began running backwards into a tunnel. The passengers jumped out,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Accident. MELBOURNE
The engine of the passenger train to Seymour this morning became detached from the carriages, which were left behind between Mangalore and Seymour. The carriages were picked up by another engine just…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Appointment of a Railway Land Valuer
On December 9 last Mr. James Byrnes, railway land valuer for the Government, applied for and obtained, with the approval of the Executive Council, six months' leave of absence…
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