The Trams
A correspondent points out that 25 per cent, of the cost of working the trams might be saved and the receipts increased by making Liverpool-street a penny section, and stopping all suburban trams…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
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Border Railway Arrangements
ALBURY, Sunday. -- On Monday, the 22nd inst., the proposed alterations in the border railway arrangements come into operation. All the passenger traffic will be transferred…
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Although the construction of railways has greatly reduced the traffic on the main roads of the colony, the maintenance of these and of other roads has been deemed an essential feature in the development of…
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The Minister for Public Works, the Hon. W. J. Lyne, accompanied by Mr. H. Levion, member for Tamworth, will leave Sydney to-night for Manilla, via Tamworth. The object of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road-inspectors' Servants. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir, -- Much talk of retrenchment is the fashion now-a-days. Kindly permit me to point out a small means of retrenchment and withal, a small piece of Treasury-looting…
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A meeting, attended by nearly 200 railway employees of the Railway Department, was held last evening in the Wesleyan Schoolroom, Regent-street, Redfern, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trade Affairs. Railway Employes. the Formation of an Association
A largely attended meeting of railway employes was held in the Redfern Wesleyan Schoolroom on Monday evening, for the purpose of forming an association. Mr. Joseph Cavilion presided. He said…
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A deputation consisting of Messrs. Sydney Smith, H. Taylor, J. Davies, and Kidd, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister of Works, yesterday, to protest against a notice which had recently been issued from the traffic…
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In order to remedy the difficulty experienced by passengers under the system of payment by ticket only on the tramways, the Minister of Works has determined to permit the guards to sell colored…
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In reference to the matter of the deputation which waited upon Mr. Lyne on Monday, concerning the new rale by which all railway employes travelling to and from work pay half fare, as from January 1 last…
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The arrangements connected with the running of the excursion train on Monday were anything but creditable to the Railway Department. The train filled to repletion at Mount Victoria, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barbed Wire for Railway Fences
The same deputation brought under the notice of the Minister the substitation of barbed wire for the present fencing materials along the railway line from Sydney to Campbelltown. Mr. Kidd stated that in order to effect…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Half-fares for Railway Employes
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. J. G. Davies, H. Taylor, Kidd, and S. Smith, Ms.L.A., waited yesterday on the Minister for Railways to draw his attention to the fact that railway employes were charged half-fares for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Irrigation and Railways. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In the weekly edition of the London Times, January 29, there is a most interesting communication on the present condition and prospects of the Panama Canal, the whole of which I think your readers would like to see…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting of Railway Employes
A mass meeting of railway employes, for the purposs of forming an amalgamated society, embracing all the railway employees of New South Wales, was held last night at the Wesleyan schoolroom, Regent-street, Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railways
The history of railways in New South Wales may be said to date from the 3rd of July, 1850, when the first turf of the line from Sydney to Goulburn was turned. But the enhanced value of labour consequent on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramways
The insufficient means of transit in the city and suburbs caused the Government to project a system of tram lines. The first was opened between King-street and Redfern in 1879, and since about 26 miles have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employees' Privileges
It was represented yesterday to Mr. W. J. Lyne, Minister for Public Works, that a hardship had been placed upon railway employees by the operation of the system, since January…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Shore Cable Tramway
A rumor which has gained considerable credence has been in circulation at St. Leonards to the effect that Mr. Hallidie, the American cable tramway constructor, is about to make a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway Ticket Fares
The Minister for Public Works is endeavoring to adopt some system in connection with the collection of tramway fares which will exterminate, if not entirely remove, the…
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