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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A respectable looking man named Peter M'Donald was charged in the dock of the police court, to-day, with having got into a train while it was in motion. He pleaded guilty, but said that the train was hardly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Will you permit me to enquire through the medium of your valuable journal, whether there are any railways in the world except those of New South Wales on which a regulation exists requiring an applicant for a monthly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—Will you kindly publish the enclosed correspondence re Broken Back Bridge toll-bar. It was not my intention to have given publicity to these letters till after our next interview with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cabinet had before it yesterday the question of making a tramway line from the Darling Harbor goods station to the meat market at Ultimo, and agreed to the construction of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad accident happened here to a girl named Wood on Monday night. It appears that as a goods train was shunting at the Tamworth station at about a quarter to 9 o'clock, a couple of tracks got away…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Your correspondent who writes in to-day's issue of the difficulties he has encountered in his endeavours to obtain a ticket for a month's travelling on our suburban railways, only draws additional attention to one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The recent railway accident at Culcairn formed the subject to-day of a prosecution instituted by the Commissioner of Railways against Labbel, night officer at Culcairn station. Defendant was charged with neglect of duty by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The arrival of Mr. A. S, Hallidie, president of the Cable Railway Company (San Francisco), by the R.M.S. Mararoa, has been already referred to in these columns, and in an extract…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We believe that the construction of a tramway from the railway line to the meatsbed at Darling Harbor has been approved of by the Executive Council., Tenders were opened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The delay in the completion and opening of the North Shore Cable Tramway is occasioning considerable dissatisfaction amongst the residents of that suburb. The main…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALBUEY, Tuesday.--Lovell, an employe at the Culcairn railway station, was prosecuted to-day at the police court on a charge of neglect of duty. The proceedings were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the face of the large sums of money which have recently been allotted for reserves in the several suburbs, and the numbers of applications for the resumption of land for parks &c., now in the hands of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister of Education has announced that the Government intends to proceed with the Port Darwin and Pine Creek Railway at the earliest opportunity. The earthworks south of Mr. Daly's contract will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--You recently inserted a letter of mine advocating light lines of railway in lien of the above. Your correspondent Mr. Edwards will have none of these. He goes in long and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Only £30,000 will be needed beyond the price of the original contract for strengthening the Silverton Railway. The Government will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I beg to out out to the mercantile community England has now annexed Burmah to British Burmah and India. A line of railway can now be run through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 17.—The Waddington Land Syndicate has entertained at a banquet Mr. Malcolm Fraser, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Western Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The tram cable again became unstranded on Thursday afternoon. It is said that a new cable will have to be threaded, the present one having worn out, owing to the mistakes of drivers and friction over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Land Board Mr. Harley Tarrant applied for 1210 acres on a line from Deniliquin to Hay for the construction of a tramway. Mr. Tarrant said that the local council had given him permission to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. M. H. Stephen, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, moved on behalf of defeudant to make absolute a rule nisi for a new trial in the above action, which was tried on the 12th and 13th…
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